1. The National Writing Project © 2015 Taylor & Francis

2. My dream outcomes  Effective site-based professional learning for teachers of writing across the curriculum  Affirmation of the importance of “the writer” in teachers’ professional identity  A range of practices that have been shown to have worked in motivating students to write and succeed as writers in the classroom.  A set of diagnostic, formative and summative assessment procedures that are ecologically valid and helpful to teachers in their feedback to students and reporting to parents. © 2015 Taylor & Francis

3. Basic tenets of a NWP (Andrews, 2008)  to teach writing, you need to be able to write;  students should respond to each other’s writing;  the teacher should act as writer alongside the students, and be prepared to undertake the same assignments as the students;  there is research about the teaching of writing that needs to be considered and applied, where appropriate, in the classroom;  teachers can be their own researchers in the classroom;  the best teacher of writing teachers is another writing teacher; and  various stages of the writing process need to be mapped and practised: these include pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, conferencing (see no 2 above) and publishing. © 2015 Taylor & Francis

4. Some Facts about the NWP in the US The NWP has for more than 30 years offered professional development summer institutes to K- 16 teachers across content areas and grade levels. The NWP consists of 190+ college-based sites in 50 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, serving approximately 125,000 teachers a year. NC declined from eight sites to two when state funding stopped. Sites seek support from LEAs to raise the matching funds and gain the federal $$. © 2015 Taylor & Francis

5. In its 30 year history, the NWP has served approximately 3.5 million teachers, nearly the same as the total population of teachers in the USA today. 770 University faculty annually devote approximately 2,000 person hours in offering over 100,000 professional development hours per year. The cost per NWP program is approximately $2.00 per participant, as compared to $30 per participant for the National Science Foundation. © 2015 Taylor & Francis

6. Historical Overview In 1970s, process model was based on how real writers write (Bay Area Writing Project) Little teacher direction or intervention Used mainly for narrative writing Emphasized process more than product Simplistic Pedagogy resulted (Rohman’s model) Teacher describes three stages (prewrite-write-rewrite) and students use them to produce a story In 1980s, influenced by cognitive research Embraced a more recursive and reflective model © 2015 Taylor & Francis

7. The NWP in New Zealand  established in New Zealand in 1987  distinct projects based in four urban centres  Scanlan and Carruthers’s (1990):  “as the teachers became writers themselves their attitude to the teaching of writing changed”;  “how the teachers taught writing changed”;  “student writing improved as a result of these changes”; and  “teachers demonstrated their new skills and knowledge to other teachers” (p. 14). © 2015 Taylor & Francis