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New Teacher-Grant Program Could Mean Funding for the NWP From EdWeek September 29, 2011 By Stephen Sawchuk Several high-profile teacher-training and -professional-development groups that recently lost federal set-asides—from Teach For America to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards—will have an opportunity to recapture some of that funding under the terms of a newly unveiled $25 [...]

Award-winning poet and translator Jane Hirshfield will keynote the upcoming Writing and Contemplative Mind Conference, which is taking place at George Mason University on October 21 and 22, 2011. Hirshfield is the author of several collections of verse, many of which are influenced by her practice of Zen Buddhism and knowledge of classical Japanese verse. [...]

This Fall the NVWP is offering Writing Across the Curriculum with Struggling Writers to teachers in Fairfax County.  The course aims to aid teachers in creating research-based lessons to meet the needs of their diverse learners.  Participants (K-12 teachers from across the disciplines and adminstrators) complete writing to learn activities, discuss articles, and do hands-on activities presented [...]

ESEA Reauthorization The wait for a No Child Left Behind (NCLB) rewrite seems to be a bit longer now after a contentious debt ceiling agreement took most of Washington’s energy this summer. The House Education and the Workforce Committee and the Senate Health,Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee are the respective committees charged with drafting the [...]

A hallmark of each year’s Fall for the Book festival, the annual Falling for the Story event features future literary stars — student writers sharing original works published in the Northern Virginia Writing Project’s Falling for the Story, a yearly collection of exemplary work from students of NVWP Teachers Consultants in elementary, middle, and high schools.  Please join in this celebration [...]