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CWP Support for School and District NCLB Plans
Because writing matters, the California Writing Project supports teachers and students, schools and districts with a model of professional development that has a thirty-year track record of success and effectiveness.
CWP professional development programs provide:
- research-based methods in the teaching of writing
- standards-aligned professional development that districts can use to meet HOUSSE requirements
- intensive support for improving student achievement and preparing students for high-stakes, state and university writing assessments
- special attention to the academic needs of English learners
- collaboration with schools and districts to meet adequate yearly progress
- designs for comprehensive, effective writing programs
- strategies for using technology as a tool to teach and improve writing.
As affiliates of the National Writing Project, the seventeen sites of the California Writing Project are:
- authorized under NCLB, Title II, Part C as providers of standards-aligned professional development for teachers and administrators
- eligible for funding under:
Title I, Part A
- professional development and mentoring programs for Title I schools and teachers
Title II, Part A
- professional development for helping teachers meet NCLB teacher requirements
- professional development in subject-matter knowledge, improving teaching skills, assisting teachers to use CaliforniaÕs academic content standards and student achievement standards, and state assessments to improve student achievement.
Title II, Part D
- professional development focused on enhancing education through technology
Title III, Part A
- professional development focused on improving instruction for English learners
Title VII, Part A
- professional development focused on improving the instruction of Native American students.
- listed in the Catalog for School Reform Models as professional development providers eligible for funding under Title I CSR. http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/ModelDetails.asp?ModelID=45
As affiliates of the California Subject Matter Projects, the seventeen sites of the California Writing Project are approved AB 466 providers for the 80-hour professional development follow-up component to the 40-hour English/Language Arts instructional materials training.
The CWP professional development model is validated by research and by studies of student achievement, at the local and national level:
Documenting the Effectiveness of the California Writing Project
Summary of Evaluation and Research Findings (Inverness Research Associates)
Summary of Research Findings: Redesigning Professional Development (Ann
Lieberman and Diane R. Wood)
California Writing Project: Models of Professional Development
Improving Student Writing Through Effective Classroom Practices
What Works in the Middle: Results-Based Staff Development (National Staff
Development Council) Research and Knowledge Base for the CWP Model and Programs:
Because Writing Matters: Improving Writing in Our Schools
CWP Research and Knowledge Base for Programs that Support California's
NCLB Plan
What Administrators Say About Partnering with the California Writing Project
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