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The Missouri Writing Projects Network is a consortium of five
National Writing Project sites around Missouri. |
As a partner with the National Writing Project, the Missouri Writing Projects Network and all local sites are authorized providers of standards-aligned professional development and eligible for No Child Left Behind funding under:
Title I, Part A - Professional development and mentoring programs for Title I schools and teachers
Title II, Part A - Professional development for helping teachers meet NCLB teacher requirements; Professional development in subject-matter knowledge, improving teaching skills, and assisting teachers to use Missouri's content area Grade Level Expectations and Missouri Assessment Program to improve student achievement.
Title II, Part D - Professional development focused on enhancing education through technology |
Firmly committed to the belief that teachers are the key to educational change, the MWPN works to improve the teaching of writing in these key ways:
- Each MWPN site identifies and selects master teachers of writing from all levels of instruction in its geographical area.
- Each MWPN site brings these master teachers together on its campus for intensive Summer Institutes. Read more about the Summer Institutes on our Programs page.
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All MWPN sites base their programs on the following National Writing Project Assumptions:
- Writing is pivotal to learning, to academic achievement, and to job success.
- Writing instruction begins in kindergarten and continues through university.
- Universities and schools in collaboration provide powerful programs for teachers.
- Effective teachers make the best teachers of other teachers.
- Teachers are the key to reform in education.
- Professional development begins when teachers enter teaching and continues throughout their careers.
- Writing is fundamental to learning all subjects.
- Real change in classroom practice happens over time.
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