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One Director's Role as Leader, Contextualizer, Researcher, Enabler, and Site Conscience
Blau reflects on the varied roles of a Writing Project site director, particularly in a time of budgetary uncertainty. She emphasizes the behind the scenes work of keeping the "intellectual, spiritual, financial, and logistical" resources of a site available and in working order, drawing…
Building the Capacity of Writing Project Site Leadership
These stories of teacher leadership from the National Writing Project's Vignette Study provide examples of structures and processes that sites can examine as they seek to expand leadership and create their own opportunities for teachers to lead. As Lucy Ware writes in the introduction to…
Thrust into Leadership: Empowering Teachers Through the Summer Institute
Is leading a program for the site a new endeavor for you? Are you wondering, "what in the world did I get myself into?" Author and reluctant teacher leader Beth Halbert tells her story of being thrust into a site leadership role just two weeks before the start of the institute, demonstrating…
Write Now Teacher Studio
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing
Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.