The Mission

The mission from the Teachers College Studying and Writing Project would be to help youthful people become enthusiastic and skilled readers, authors, and inquirers. We make this happen goal through good research, curriculum development, and thru working shoulder-to-shoulder with students, teachers, and college leaders. The business is promoting condition-of-the-art tools and techniques for teaching studying and writing, for implementing performance assessments and learning progressions to accelerate progress, as well as for literacy-wealthy content-area instruction. A large number of teachers regard the Teachers College Studying and Writing Project like a continual supply of professional renewal and education. More than 170,000 teachers have attended our week-lengthy institutes, and also over 4,000 participants return every year to annual Saturday Reunions.

The Understanding Base

The Teachers College Studying and Writing Project began and it is directed by Lucy Calkins, The Robinson Professor of kids’s Literature at Teachers College. Lucy may be the author or co-author well over two score of books, including Pathways towards the Common Core (with Ehrenworth and Lehman) that was lately listed as #8 within the New You are able to Occasions listing of best-selling education books. She’s also authored/co-authored The skill of Teaching Writing . The skill of Teaching Studying. Writing Pathways . and a number of books entitled Units of Study in Studying and also the lately released Units of Study in Opinion/Argument, Information and Narrative Writing: A K-8 Common Core Curriculum . These books, in addition to individuals by current and former staff people and TCRWP teachers, produce a portfolio of texts that is foundational to studying and writing workshop instruction around the world.

The TCRWP functions both like a think tank along with a community of practice. Every Thursday for three decades, employees developers and leaders devote all day every day to taking part in a powerful, collaborative think-tank. Meanwhile lead teachers take part in many think tanks that last across many lead in important methods to the business’s understanding base. Since the TCRWP places quality value on maintaining lengthy-term and shut affiliations with schools and districts, which means that the business, like its schools, is constantly adjusting to new pressures and challenges while holding tight to some longstanding dedication to wondrous, purposeful, lifelong literacy. As a result the TCRWP is deeply involved in finding reasonable (and often condition-of-the-art) methods to requires more data-based, standards-based instruction and much more alignment with teacher-effectiveness frameworks.

The trajectory of the learning community is strengthened by close links to national literacy leaders and college reform experts, over 20 who focus on site around every year. Lately we (and also the teachers that we work) have discovered from Peter Johnston, Dick Allington, Tim Rasinski, Tony Wagner, Kylene Beers, Yvonne Rodriquez, Stephanie Harvey, Ellin Keene, Michael Fullan, James Comer, Katherine Bomer, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Diane Ravitch, and Alfred Tatum. New You are able to City’s location in the publishing capital around the globe enables us to create children’s authors to Teachers College.

During the past few years, visiting children’s authors include Katherine Paterson, Kate DiCamillo, James Howe, Pam Muoz Ryan, Avi, Walter Dean Meyers, Jon Scieszka yet others.

How Do You Join?

The boundary round the learning community that constitutes TCRWP is permeable. There’s no gatekeeper—any individual and then any school wanting to be considered a member is a. Teachers who study from along with the TCRWP frequently regard this affiliation as integral for their professional identity, and schools, too, begin to see the affiliation as you that defines their character. People are contributors in addition to learners. The city is tremendously enriched because most of the teachers, principals, scholars and superintendents who’ve maintained an in-depth participation hand back inside a reciprocal fashion. Project schools regularly host visitors, for instance, and participants share through Facebook, email, Twitter, and most importantly, through sustained relationships with one another. Teachers from around the globe lately became a member of together to lead almost $100,000 to varsities which were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. This network is exactly what the work is about.

To learn more about receiving professional development services in the Project, please send us an email at services@readingandwritingproject.com. You needn’t wait, however, before making use of the sources on this web site as well as in our many publications.