Building and Leveraging Teacher-Leaders' Expertise to Improve Students' Writing: National Writing Project's College-Ready Writers Program

18.071-4 - Building and Leveraging Teacher-Leaders' Expertise to Improve Students' Writing: National Writing Project's College-Ready Writers Program

In Event: 18.071 - Roundtable Session 5

Thu, April 27, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Hemisfair Ballroom 1

Session Type: Roundtable Session

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This session examines the development, work, and impact of teacher leadership in the National Writing Project’s College-Ready Writers Program, funded with a U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation (i3) Validation grant. The initiative, which aims to improve the teaching and learning of argument writing, unfolded in 44 high-poverty rural districts located in 10 states. Teacher-leaders, supported both by the National Writing Project and their local Writing Project sites, facilitated district teachers’ professional growth and supported shifts in classroom practice and student writing outcomes. Collectively these papers open up the black box of how teacher leadership is cultivated and enacted, and explore its impacts on teacher practice and student learning.

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Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 2: Teacher Leadership Within and Beyond the Classroom (teachers as leaders, researchers, policy makers, community activists, and decision-makers)

18.071-4 - Building and Leveraging Teacher-Leaders' Expertise to Improve Students' Writing: National Writing Project's College-Ready Writers Program

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