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Mark your calendars and save the dates for the NVWP’s 2012 Young Writers’ Workshops! This spring we will be hosting four workshops: on February 25, March 3, April 14, and April 21.  Interested students in grades 4-12 may attend.  On line registration will be available in early January.  To receive the latest information from the [...]

On November 5th, 2011 the NVWP hosted its first annual Fall Renewal.  This year’s renewal leader was Sheridan Blau, Director Emeritus of the South Coast Writing Project in Santa Barbara, and Distinguished Senior Lecturer in English Education at the famed Teachers College in New York City. Below are four reflections from NVWP TCs Kim Overholt, [...]

On November 13th, 2011 Washington Post Columnist Jay Matthews published a column entitled Writing Lessons? Start Over.  With some prompting from our friends at the National Writing Project, NVWP Co-director Mary Tedrow, myself (Paul Rogers, Director, NVWP), and Emmet Rosenfeld a Teacher Consultant of the NVWP and National Board Certified teacher commiserated on writing a response. [...]

“What if every high school had a writing center?” Around the nation an educational reform movement is stirring and students are at the center — the Writing Center! On Saturday, October 29th, writing tutors from 11 High School Writing Centers from Fairfax County Public Schools gathered to share, learn, and celebrate their work. The conference [...]

In July of 2011, the NVWP staff began digitizing the back issues of the Journal of the Virginia Writing Project.  All of the previous issues of the Journal are now online.  To view the issues please visit: The Archives of the Journal of the Virgnia Writing Project.  We are now compiling author and subject indexes [...]