Alison McDonald taught history for twenty-seven years before she became a principal.
“The Writing Project kept me in teaching,” she says, “and it made me a very different administrator. When our school opened, I immediately devoted our professional development time to literacy strategies for every subject.”
NWP Annual Report
Alison McDonald, Principal, Life Academy High School, Oakland, CaliforniaBay Area Writing Project, ’94 Yumi Matsui, Humanities teacher, Life Academy High School, Oakland, CaliforniaBay Area Writing Project, ’05 Cliff Lee, Humanities teacher, Life Academy High School, Oakland, CaliforniaBay Area Writing Project, ’04