National Writing Project
Summary: The National Writing Project (NWP) is a professional development network that serves teachers of writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. The mission of the NWP is to improve student achievement by improving the teaching of writing and improving learning in the nations schools.
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Possible Lives was first published a decade ago, at a time when the public"s patience with the experiment of public education seemed to be running out. In response to the rhetoric of decline, Rose embarked on an experiment: he would travel across the country, seeking out amazing teachers and students, painting a picture of public school classrooms that would offer a vision of possibility, of hope.
NWP"s For Your Bookshelf audio series talks to Tracy Rosewarne and Rebecca Sipe of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project about their book Purposeful Writing: Genre Study in the Secondary Writing Workshop.
In her keynote speech at the 2009 NWP Spring Meeting, Jacqueline Jones Royster, professor of English at The Ohio State University, discusses how teachers have the responsibility of being agents and enablers of both stability and change.
