Important Links for Teachers, Administrators, and Parents

• Winter 2008
• Fall 2007
• Summer 2007
  

• ReadWriteThink.org
• pbwiki.com
• News Writing
  

• National Commission on Writing Releases Report on Writing in America's Schools & Colleges
• New Book from NWP Helps Promote "Best Practices" in the Teaching of Writing
• Council of Writing Program Administrators Release Statement on Plagiarism (pdf)

• Because Writing Matters
• Breakthroughs: Classroom Discoveries about Teaching Writing
• Inside the National Writing Project: Connecting Network Learning and Classroom Teaching
• The Voice
• The NWP Quarterly

• Mission Statement of the NWP
• "The Model"
• Basic Assumptions of WP Sites

• NWP "In-Brief" (facts, figures, etc.) (pdf)
• Impact of the NWP on America's Classrooms
• Students of NWP Teachers Do Better in School and After (pdf)
• Independent Research Supports NWP Findings (pdf)

• Resolution on the National Writing Project
• Teaching Composition: A Position Statement
• Writing Assessment: A Position Statement
• CCCC Language Policy Committee
• Standards for the Language Arts

• Illinois State Board of Education
• Illinois Learning Standards for English Language Arts
• English Language Arts Classroom Assessments and Performance Descriptors
• English Language Arts State Goal 3
• English Language Arts State Goal 5