There is a wealth of material on the NWP website to assist site leaders in their work. Sometimes, there is so much that it becomes hard to find your way to what you want. The purpose of this resource is to provide quick access to some of the most relevant information.
Basic overview of 'what is where'
...Although the roles director, co-director, tech liaison, PI, etc. show up at many sites, the designs for leadership at writing project sites are as varied as their settings. In this resource collection, we feature designs for leadership taken from local site leadership maps.
Leadership designs at local sites
...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.
...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.
...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?
...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.
...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
...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.
...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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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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