National Writing Project
For Scaling Up College-Ready Writers Program
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/7/2017
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Term60.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The National Writing Project (NWP), a well-regarded teacher professional development organization, focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of educators on efforts to improve student writing and learning. With this grant, the NWP will expand deeper learning practice in writing and its assessment, specifically by increasing teachers’ capacity to teach argumentative, analytical forms of writing. The NWP will work in 46 rural districts in 16 states, reaching approximately 40,000 students in grades 4–10, especially schools that serve students with the highest need.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.nwp.org
Address
University of California, Berkeley 2120 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for pilot testing and developing strategies to scale assessments that measure civic engagement
The grantee will pilot test their instruments with deeper learning schools, engage with the deeper learning community, and develop strategies for widespread dissemination of their tools. If successful, their work can provide evidence of how additional assessments, such as measurements of civic outcomes of education, are helpful and feasible.
for planning research studies and a national convening
The National Writing Project, a well-regarded teacher professional development organization, focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of educators on efforts to improve student writing and learning. This planning grant will support a network of organizations — all of which have individually developed measures of civic engagement — as they co-design a research study that will document the current state of civic learning in the United States. This research has the potential to facilitate civic education field building.
