Rural Eastern Virginia Writing Project:
Mission Statement
The Mission of the Rural Eastern Virginia Writing Project (REVWP), a satellite site of the Eastern Virginia Writing Project, is to improve the teaching of writing and to improve learning in our schools. We recognize the primary importance of teacher knowledge, expertise, and leadership.
The Rural Eastern Virginia Writing Project believes that access to high-quality educational experiences is a basic right of all learners and a cornerstone of equity. Through its growing network of teachers, we seek to promote expemplary instruction of writing in every classroom in our region of Virginia.
The Rural Eastern Virginia Writing Project values diversity--our own as well as that of our students, their families, and their communities. We recognize that our lives and practices are enriched when those with whom we interact represent diversities of race, genter, class, ethnicity, and language.
~Adapted from EVWP Retreat: Mission Statement
The Rural Eastern Virginia Writing Project believes that access to high-quality educational experiences is a basic right of all learners and a cornerstone of equity. Through its growing network of teachers, we seek to promote expemplary instruction of writing in every classroom in our region of Virginia.
The Rural Eastern Virginia Writing Project values diversity--our own as well as that of our students, their families, and their communities. We recognize that our lives and practices are enriched when those with whom we interact represent diversities of race, genter, class, ethnicity, and language.
~Adapted from EVWP Retreat: Mission Statement
What You Will Find on Our Site:
Links to articles, changed regularly to meet your needs, from the National Writing Project's website, http://www.nwp.org.
Information for teachers that focuses on helping students to develop as writers in all content areas.
Information for teachers and school administrators on the Summer Writing Institute, currently held at Rappahannock Community College and offered through The College of William and Mary for graduate course credit.
Information on outreach and professional development resources available to educators and administrators in our region, courtesy of the Rural Eastern Virginia Writing Project.
Information for parents on encouraging your child to write, suggestions for family writing activities, and resources for more information about the reading-writing connection.
A page for students that presents ideas for independent writing activities, family writing activities, and reasons to get writing!
Information for teachers that focuses on helping students to develop as writers in all content areas.
Information for teachers and school administrators on the Summer Writing Institute, currently held at Rappahannock Community College and offered through The College of William and Mary for graduate course credit.
Information on outreach and professional development resources available to educators and administrators in our region, courtesy of the Rural Eastern Virginia Writing Project.
Information for parents on encouraging your child to write, suggestions for family writing activities, and resources for more information about the reading-writing connection.
A page for students that presents ideas for independent writing activities, family writing activities, and reasons to get writing!
Selected Articles of Interest-Spring
These articles and links are all courtesy of the National Writing Project web site, located at http://www.nwp.org. Feel free to visit the main site to explore or search for other articles, to recommend more articles to feature here, or to learn more about topics of specific interest to you.
Music In Schools Celebration Is Also About Writing
This article, provided by the National Writing Project, describes the many ways music can be used to inspire writing. Included are practical, use-right-now ideas to inspire students, and teachers, to use the power of music to create thoughtful, creative pieces of writing. Included at the end of the article are additional links to even more resources that will allow the power of music to change your teaching (and what students aspire to write) for the better.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3085
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3085
School Partnership Leads to "Exciting Writing Week"
This article from the National Writing Project's Resources database explains how "Exciting Writing Week" became a catalyst for a year-round appreciation of writing in an elementary school in Little Rock, AR. The article gives a snapshot of how the week works and how teachers use writing to make instruction more meaningful, and also provides many ideas to take into classrooms and schools to promote positive change in writing instruction.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2925
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2925
Book Review: The Book Club Companion
This article is a review of the book, The Book Club Companion: Fostering Strategic Readers in the Secondary Classroom, by Cindy O'Donnell-Allen. If you have ever wanted to explore the use of Book Clubs with your students, this review will provide ideas and insights for making them work in your classroom. In addition to explaining the benefits of a Book-Club format, the article also provides some of the many ideas that the book presents for making the experience successful in your classroom.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2835
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2835
Kelly Gallagher Takes on "The Killing of Reading"
This article provides highlights from Kelly Gallagher's book, Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It. Included in the article are clear explanations of the teaching practices that lead to student disengagement from reading, and suggestions and ideas about what can be done to reignite a desire in our students to want to read. Kelly Gallagher's presentation at the NWP's Spring Meeting focused on the issues presented in this article.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3486
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3486
