Dear Friends:

As of Fall 2004 the Greater Phoenix Area Writing Project has been discontinued. This website will be maintained for a time on a limited basis for informational purposes and so that you are able to access the resources provided. All the best to you in your teaching.

THE PROGRAM

The Writing Project is firmly committed to the belief that teachers are the key to educational change. GPAWP, like Projects across the country, works toward improving the teaching of writing through:

1. intensive Summer Institutes, and

2. school year Inservice Programs

The heart of GPAWP is the Summer Institute, which brings together 20 to 30 master teachers who:

* develop and share their most successful classroom practices;

* study current theory and research in the teaching of writing;

* have time to write and to explore, share, and develop their own writing abilities.

Participants in the Summer Institute then return as Teacher Consultants to their districts to conduct inservice programs during the school year.

"Respect for the classroom teachers is the central building block that generates everything about the writing project that is important."

--The National Writing Project Model

updated: December 8, 2005