East Texas Writing Project
The East Texas Writing Project (ETWP) is one of 175 National Writing Project (NWP) sites across the nation, one of 10 sites in the state of Texas.
NWP sites, like the East Texas Writing Project, focus on the core mission of improving literacy, the teaching of writing, and the use of writing across disciplines.
In the past, present, and future, the ETWP achieves and will continue to achieve these aims through a combination of high-quality programming and professional development for area educators and students including:
- The Invitational Summer Institute: An annual institute open to select participants that offers six semester hours of graduate course credit;
- Spring Educators Conference: An annual, one-day event meant to increase and improve writing education across the curriculum.
- Young Writers’ Workshop: Each summer, the East Texas Writing Project and English Program at Texas A&M University-Texarkana sponsor the Young Writers’ Workshop, a program open to incoming 1st to 12th grade students from across the region.
- Evening workshops and seminars led by experienced teachers that focus on providing resources and tools relevant across the grade levels and across the disciplines;
- Write Out and other creative writing events in partnership with community resources and organizations.
We invite teachers to join our ongoing professional learning network, and we applaud teachers who want to improve their own writing and their teaching of writing.
The ETWP focuses on teachers as writers and teachers as leaders. We support the “teachers teaching teachers” model for personal and professional development in writing instruction through programming developed by our leadership team.
In short, we strive to offer contemporary, effective tools and resources supported by sound best practices in writing pedagogy to teachers who want to integrate writing into their classrooms in engaging and educational ways.
For more information contact:Dr. Bill Lancaster, Director
East Texas Writing Project
blancaster@tamut.edu