Anniversary Year Calendar
July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010
December 5, 2009
CWP Leadership Meeting: 35 Years of Making New Knowledge, UC Berkeley
Our Guest Speakers and Their Writing
- Mary K. Healy, former Co-Director, Bay Area Writing Project
“Beating the Writing Systems on Our Own Ground” (download PDF) - Denise Patmon, Boston Writing Project, former member of the NWP Board of Directors
“How the Writing Project Became Inclusive” (download PDF) - Joe Check, former Director, Boston Writing Project
“Imaginary Gardens and Real Issues: Improving Language Arts in the Urban Elementary School” (download PDF)
“Teacher Stories: School Reform’s Missing Link” (download PDF)
“Mandated Reform vs. Classroom Reality” (download PDF)
Expanding Genre Theory Resources
“Linking Genre to Standards and Equity,” Tom Fox, former Director, Northern California Writing Project; national coordinator for the National Writing Project
(download PDF)
“Integrating Rhetorical and Literary Theories of Genre,” Amy J. Devitt
(download PDF)
Writing About Our Intellectual and Research History
“BAWP Then and Now, ” Jim Gray (founder of BAWP, CWP, and NWP), Mary K. Healy (former Co-Director, BAWP), Carol Tateishi (former Director, BAWP)
(download PDF)
“The Discipline of Composition: Making Students Smarter,” Sheridan Blau (former Director, South Coast Writing Project)
(download PDF)