NVWP

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 [...]

About the Saturday Workshops The Northern Virginia Writing Project provides one-day writing workshops for interested students and motivated writers in grades 5-12 in the fall and 4-12 in the spring. Workshops are run by NVWP Teacher Consultants, some of the best teachers in Northern Virginia. Class size is small, with a ratio of twelve students [...]

The Winchester Start reports on the Summer Institute writing marathon in an article titled “Teachers flock to Winchester for prestigious writers’ project.” From the article: The marathon, as opposed to a 26.2-mile run, led the teachers to a variety of spots – where they jotted down their reactions. The work is part of a four-week summer [...]

The Northern Virginia Writing Project is the subject of an article published in the Washington Post on Thursday, December 17. Washington Post staff writer Jenna Johnson interviewed Director Don Gallehr and Teacher Consultant Kimberly Sloan for the article.  “Writing Program Rewrites Teachers’ Approach to the Craft” briefly discusses the history of NVWP and the National [...]

The following is from Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad written by Ruth Chung Wei, Linda Darling-Hammond; Alethea Andress, Nikole Richardson, and Stelios Orphanos. Published by the National Staff Development Council and the School Redesign Network at Stanford University, February 2009. The excerpt [...]