Purchase Area Writing Project
National Writing Project at Murray State University
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The Purchase Area Writing Project (PAWP) is dedicated to helping primary and secondary school teachers in the western Kentucky area build student success in writing. An official site of the National Writing Project, we share its beliefs about writing and teaching:
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Writing is fundamental to learning in all subject areas and at all grade levels.
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We promote the best that is known about the teaching of writing from literature in the field, research,
and the insights and experiences of successful teachers at all levels.
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Teachers are the best teachers of teachers.
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Teachers of writing must be writers themselves.
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Real change in classroom practice happens over time. Working as partners, universities, and schools can
articulate and promote effective school reform.
- Effective professional development programs are on-going and systematic, bringing teachers together regularly throughout their careers to examine successful practices and new developments (NWP, 1998).
PAWP holds a variety of activities each year, including our Summer Institute in June at Murray State University. Teachers who participate in the PAWP Summer Institute return to their schools to administer workshops and in-service sessions.
PAWP also coordinates a series of outreach programs - workshops held at schools throughout the region. If you are interested in hosting a workshop at your school, please contact us and we'll make those plans work together. For more information on Professional Development Training programs available from PAWP, please download our brochure.
For more information about PAWP programs, please contact the program administrator. If you are a teacher interested in participating, please fill out the contact form and we'll be in touch with more information.
PAWP Student Anthology Contest
Attention All Purchase Area Writing Project Teacher-Consultants
You are invited to enter your students' writings and your writings in the 2nd Annual PAWP Anthology relating to the themes: I Think I Can in the Elementary Division and Because I Can in the Middle/High Division.
The submission deadline is March 15, 2010.
Click here for more information.
Documents are provided in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (pdf). To view or print these files you must install
the free Adobe Reader. To download the latest version of Adobe Reader, please click here.