Southside Elementary Writing Focus: Site-Based Leadership Reforms the Writing Curriculum

By Nancy Remington, Robert McGinty

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The story of an inquiry-centered approach to professional development, designed and led by teachers, that could be a model for any school. Originally published on March 1, 2005

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Nancy Remington and Robert McGinty from the Great Basin Writing Project in Nevada, describe a long-term school partnership that gave teachers at Southside Elementary the opportunity to redesign curriculum and reshape the writing culture of their school. This inquiry-centered approach to professional development, designed and led by teachers-with support from the writing project site-could be a model for any school.

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