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Why your university should support your writing project

The model of writing project sites was established by Jim Gray and has remained ever since as a collaborative effort between university faculty and educators in nearby schools. For stability and accountability in handling a stream of public and private funding, it has been important that a university "host" each site. As a result of faculty advocacy, hundreds of universities have ch

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When administrators are the audience

"Some of my best friends are administrators.""Geez, some of us ARE administrators."

When administrators are the audience, as they often are when NWP sites are working to build partnerships and work with school districts, we may want to cover the same ground in our talking points but with perspective that suits the particular audience.

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Resources for Leadership Teams

The network has collected a wide range of resources that leadership teams can use to plan their work, set agendas for meetings and retreats, or design inquiry about the work of the site.

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Resources for Press-savvy Writing Projects

Visibility in the press, particularly in our local press, can bring positive attention, fundraising opportunities, and partners to our writing project sites. More importantly, it highlights the valuable and important work that educators do as well as the accomplishments of young people.

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Fundraising for Writing Project work

Sites seeking to expand their fundraising work might want to think about these steps in seeking private, foundation, and state funding.

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Grant writing: How can we describe high quality professional development?

The field of professional development and teacher learning is a diverse and rapidly changing field. As a network that provides professional development and opportunities for teacher learning, we are called upon to explain that our model is a 'high quality' model. This might especially be called for in grant proposals or meetings with potential partners.

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Keeping Up with Assessment

This wiki book provides a landing place for resources about writing assessment as well as links to related content. In particular, it provides a page to cluster material about the two Assessment Consortia, PARCC and SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortia.

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Data Points for Student Performance and Teacher Info

This is a wiki for report and grant writers looking for data.

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Engaging the Common Core Standards in States

Please share artifacts you've developed or used for building teacher capacity to engage with your state's implementation of the Common Core Standards. Site leaders and TCs may be especially interested in examples of handouts, schedules, budgets, etc. along with a few sentences of context. How do these artifacts fit into your site's or network's strategies?

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State Funding and Partnerships

Has your site found productive or promising relationships with your state's department of education? Please share your strategy, funding sources or other details of these partnerships. If possible, attach artifacts so others might understand specifics. Use the "Add a page to this entry" option below to make your contribution. Be sure to tag your entries.

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