Center for Education | School Writing Project

What Can the School Writing Project Do for Teachers?

The Teacher is Key to Good Teaching and Learning

Outcomes for Teachers: • The School Writing Project expands a teacher’s vision of and respect for the profession. Involvement in writing enables teachers to understand the problems of a young writer and to suggest a range of strategies for success • Teachers connect with students • Teachers develop new strategies and curricular approaches • Teachers advance to leadership positions within schools and the district
• Teachers present at local and national conferences • Teachers are reversing a national trend by remaining in the classroom and growing as professionals
		Outcomes for Students: • Students learn to write in many forms, for many purposes and varied audiences • Students grow as evaluators of their own work, relying on their increasing critical faculties to improve rather than on grades and test scores • Students apply critical thinking to literature and to real life situations, as well as to other school subjects • Students recognize the power of language as it shapes individual lives, local communities and governmental procedures, and they begin to take ownership of this power to shape their own lives as well as the lives of others.