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Welcome New SitesKS: Flint Hills
Writing Project
Emporia State University Roger Caswell,
Heather Caswell
MI: Top-of-the-Mitt
Writing Project
North Central
Michigan College
Toby Kahn-Loftus,
Dan Polleys
ND: Red River Valley
Writing Project
North Dakota
State University
Kelly Sassi
OR: Oregon Writing
Project Collaborative at
George Fox
George Fox University Karen Hamlin,
Susanna Steeg
OR: Oregon Writing
Project at Southern
Oregon University
Southern Oregon
University
Margaret Perrow
VA: Shenandoah Valley
Writing Project
Shenandoah University Mary Tedrow,
Mary Bowser
NWP Board of DirectorsJudith Warren Little, Chair
Professor and Dean
Graduate School of Education,
University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA
Chiara Coletti
Director of Communications
Council of School Supervisors &
Administrators, AFL-CIO,
New York, NY
Ruth Devlin
Teacher
Paradise Professional Development
School
Las Vegas, NV
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
Executive Director
National Writing Project,
Berkeley, CA
Michael Kane
Managing Director
Caltius Mezzanine,
Los Angeles, CA
Kristin Mannion
Senior Client Partner
Korn/Ferry International,
Washington, DC
Caryn McTighe Musil
Senior Scholar and Director of
Civic Learning and Democracy
Initiatives
Association of American
Colleges and Universities,
Washington, DC
Tom Meyer
Associate Professor of
Secondary Education
SUNY New Paltz
New York, NY
Cindy O'Donnell-Allen
Professor of English
Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO
Shirley Robinson Pippins
Consultant
Memphis, TN
Christa Velasquez
Lecturer
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Scott Widmeyer
Managing Partner
Widmeyer Communications
New York, NY
Brian Wong
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman, LLP,
San Francisco, CA
#40for40#40for40
“The Only Thing New
Under the Sun: 25
Years of the National
Writing Project” by
Sheridan Blau
Read by Tim Dewar
“The Parallel
Universes of
Theory and
Practice: One
Teacher’s
Journey” by
Beverly Paisano
Read by Marcie Wolfe
“Becoming Your Own
Expert: The Teacher
as Writer”
by Tim Gillespie
Read by Richard Louth
“The Teacher as
Researcher” by
Marian Mohr
Read by Michelle Ohanian
Will this curriculum and these writing
project teaching strategies make a
difference in the academic
achievement of these students?
National Programs
English Language Learners Network
Rural Sites Network
Teacher Inquiry Communities
Technology Liaisons Network
Urban Sites Network
Local Site Research Initiative
National Reading Initiative
New-Teacher Initiative
Project Outreach
Technology Initiative
Directors Retreat
E-Anthology
New-Site
Leadership
Institute
Professional
Writing Retreats
State and Regional
Networks
“Teaching in the
Time of Dogs”
by Todd Goodson
Read by Ben Bates
“Computers and
English: Future
Tense….Future
Perfect” by
Stephen Marcus
Read by Troy Hicks
“Why Techquity” by Joe DillonRead by Sarah Woodard
The Evaluation of a 40-Year-Old
(Reflections on the NWP in 2014)
Setting the Context
What Was It Like in 1974?
• Inflation was 11% per year
• Average cost of a new house: $34,900
• Gas was $.55 per gallon
• Average income $13,900
• Pocket calculators first appear in shops
• Nixon resigns after Watergate scandal
• Bar code scanners are introduced
• The Sting, Blazing Saddles, and Serpico are released
• Eric Clapton put out “I Shot the Sheriff”
Qualitative Research –1974 Style
Other Huge Events in 1974
• The Bay Area Writing Project is started by Jim Gray at UC Berkeley.
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• Mary Ann Smith gives her first demonstration at the first summer institute.
• Mark St. John begins his doctoral studies at UC Berkeley.
• Laura Stokes visits UC Berkeley with her high school classmates.
• Elyse Eidman-Aadahl is top student in her sixth grade class.
People Who Are the Same Age as the
NWPNWP
Mid-Life Crisis?
Norman Corwin, writer and director, then 82, quoted in The Ageless Spirit (1992) says:
"I remember now that the toughest birthday I ever faced was my fortieth. It was a big symbol, because it said goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to youth. But I think that when one has passed through that age it's like breaking the sound barrier."
Ask 40-year-olds today, however, if they are in mid-life, and most of them will tell you they are too young and too busy to think about such things.
After 40 Years What Has the National Writing
Project BECOME?
An Evaluation Finding
The National Writing Project is the nation’s premier example of a
NATIONAL IMPROVEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE
The NWP National Infrastructure
NWP
A National Network
Of Nearly 200 Local Sites
Thousands of Local
Programs and
Teacher Support Activities
A Hundred Thousand Teachers
Supported Each Year
in Improving
Their Instruction
Improved Learning Experiences for
Millions of Students
Federal and Private
Funding
Local Funding Sources
U.S. Department
of Education
Local universities, districts, &
schools
U.S. Department
of Education
Local universities, districts, &
schools
U.S. Department
of Education
Local universities, districts, &
schools
42 partner organizations
22 Funders Have Contributed to the NWP Since 1983
( > $2.5 M )
( $1.0 - 2.5 M )
( $100 - 999 K)
( $3 - 99 K)
U.S. Department of Education
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The Wallace Foundation
New Venture Fund The Annenberg Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities The New York Community Trust The Robert Bowne Foundation The Stuart FoundationThe W.K. Kellogg Foundation Verizon Foundation W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation
Community Foundation of the Ozarks
Koret Foundation
National Park Foundation
The Isabel Allende Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Spencer Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation
So What Has the National Writing Project DONE over the
Past 40 Years?
Site Years
The NWP network has accumulated over 5000
“site-years” of experience!
Years of institutional wisdom of NWP sites
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
1974
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
# years of wisdom
A Long-lasting Site
• This is equivalent to one site running continuously from 3000 BC
• Troy is founded• Bronze Age begins• Early agriculture in North Africa • Djet, fourth Pharaoh of Egypt
Program HoursOver 2,000,000 hours of institutes, inservice,
continuity, and community programs since 1974
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
20141974
Program Hours
2 million program hours over 40 years
Average of 50,000 program hours per year
~140 hours of programming per day
~25 programs per day every day for 40 years
200 million participant hours
(Same as a Superbowl!)
Leadership Development:Over 80,000 teachers have participated in Summer Invitational Institutes since 1974
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
70,000
80,000
90,000
1974 2014
Service to Teachers over Forty Years
80,000 INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS
40,OOO TEACHER CONSULTANTS
70,000 – 100,000 TEACHERS SERVED PER YEAR
3 – 4 MILLION TEACHERS OVER FORTY YEARS
StudentsEstimating total numbers of students reached directly or indirectly in 1 year
45,000
1,945,000
60,000
240,000
1,600,000
students in Young Writers programs
students of Institute participants
students of 12,000 active TCs
students of Inservice participants
StudentsMore than 200 million students have
been touched by the NWP (e.g. they had a teacher who was a
participant in an NWP program), about 5 million a year
0
20,000,000
40,000,000
60,000,000
80,000,000
100,000,000
120,000,000
Year 1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999--00
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Students who have encountered the NWP(1994 -2006 estimate )
One in Every Three
Sometime during their K-12 years, approximately one in every three students in the United States will have a teacher who has participated in the NWP.
Evaluation Conclusion
At Age 40 ….
The National Writing Project is the largest and longest-standing professional development project in the history of the world
Prescription for Mid-life Well Being
The MacArthur Foundation Research Network conducted an interdisciplinary research project on successful midlife development (MIDMAC study). One of the many findings they reported was the identification of six components of well-being in mid-life:
• Feeing good about yourself and your life• Maintaining meaningful goals and objectives• Being able to manage the complex demands of daily life• Feeing a sense of personal growth• Having caring and trusting ties with others• Following one's convictions
A Personal Note
We at Inverness have been privileged and honored to have the opportunity to work with the NWP!
Inverness Research The NWP
(Inverness supports the NWP in doing good work and in garnering support)
The NWP SITES
NWP supports the sites in doing good work and in garnering support
Teachers
NWP sites support teachers in doing good work in their classrooms and leadership roles
Writing in its many forms is the signature
means of communication in the 21st century.
The NWP envisions a future where every
person is an accomplished writer, engaged
learner, and active participant in a digital,
interconnected world.
Our Vision
The National Writing Project focuses
the knowledge, expertise, and
leadership of our nation's educators on
sustained efforts to improve writing and
learning for all learners.
Our Mission
Educator Innovator
Youth Networking
• International Community Voices: International
Community High School, Bronx, NY
• Linked Communities and STEM: 6 Middle and
High Schools in Pittsburgh, PA
• Tilden Talks: Tilden Career Community Academy,
Chicago, IL
• We Too Are Connecticut: Promoting Digital Ubuntu
to Engage Student Production: Situated at 6 High
Schools Across the State
Makerspaces
• Maker Rings: Birch School, Rock Tavern,
NY
• Making Our Worlds: 3 Middle Schools in
Charlotte/Mecklenburg, NC
• Pop-Up and Make: J.H. Rose High School,
NC
Production Studios
• Digital Arts Media Production: Kenilworth
Junior High School, Petaluma, CA
• Learning Studio: Eastern Heights
Elementary, St. Paul, MN
• Passion Project: Liberty Elementary
School, Riverside, CA
Community Connections
• After School and Summer STEM Labs: Aldo Leopold Charter School, New Mexico, NM
• Connected Learning and Youth Participatory Action Research: JHS 127, Bronx, NY
• Inspired Teaching: Real World History: Center for Inspired Teaching, Washington, DC
• Supporting Game Design for Students, Teachers, and Parents in South Central Los Angeles: Critical Design and Gaming School, Los Angeles, CA
How will we adapt to the demands and
needs in this new territory? What
resources can we share to help each
other do this important work? How can
we, the New Forty Generation, collaborate
among sites and with outside partners
even more successfully to become
innovators?
