April is National Poetry Month. As flowers begin to bloom, it’s a wonderful time to bring your students outside so they can spend time in nature and heighten their senses as they listen, look, smell, and feel all that spring has to offer and then write about it. The National Writing Project has lots of…Continue Reading It’s National Poetry Month
Writing for Today and Tomorrow: Social Justice Issues and Identities June 24th – June 27th 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM Registration is open for the Central California Writing Project 2024 Summer Open Institute, Writing for Today and Tomorrow: Social Justice and Identities. During this hybrid open institute, from June 24th to June 27th, teachers will…Continue Reading Registration Is Open for 2024 Summer Institute
Writing for Today and Tomorrow: Social Justice Issues and Identities June 24th – June 27th 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM From June 24th to June 27th, the Central California Writing Project is hosting a hybrid open institute, where teachers can engage in reading, writing, and conversations about Identities, Environmental Literacy and Justice, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy,…Continue Reading 2024 Summer Open Institute Coming Soon
Virtual Panel Discussion Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm In partnership with the UCSC History & Civics Project, CCWP is excited to jointly welcome Professor John Jota Leaños, who will facilitate a conversation about interrogating and reimagining stories of the past between Pueblo scholars and educators. Participants will explore foundational values and…Continue Reading Remembrance and Resistance: Retelling the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Saturday, February 10, 2024 On February 10, CCWP Director, Louann Baker, will present at the Equity Symposium, where presenters, teachers, and students will collaboratively develop tools for Affirming and Elevating Student Agency. Louann’s workshop includes topics such as creating a safe community in the classroom, amplifying student and teacher agency and identity, providing meaningful informal…Continue Reading Equity Symposium: Affirming and Elevating Student Agency
When the Mission Bells Rang Written by CCWP’s PI, Judith Scott in conjunction with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. This imagined tale envisions how animals and the Amah Mutsun people tried to foil the ringing of the Mission Bells….Continue Reading When the Mission Bells Rang
Judith Scott, CCWP’s PI, receives recognition Our Central California Writing Project Principal Investigator, Professor Emerita Judith Scott – UCSC Education Department, received two acknowledgements of her outstanding contributions to the literacy community this year. In April, she was awarded the 2022 Vocabulary Special Interest Group Notable Vocabulary Researcher Award at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational…Continue Reading CCWP’s PI, Judith Scott Honored
Central California Writing Project Writing Matters! Giving Day November 2, 2022 The Central California Writing Project supports the development of anti-racist and culturally sustaining pedagogies with a focus on writing instruction. We need your help to provide professional learning for pre-K–University educators in Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey Counties, and to support youth in…Continue Reading 2022 Giving Day! CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WRITING PROJECT
A Virtual Collaborative Conversation with UCSC Multiple Subject Cooperating Teachers facilitated by the Central CA Writing Project Saturday, April 24, 2021 10:30 am – 11:30 am As we return to our classrooms, we have a lot of curriculum “to cover.” And we want to give students time to express their ideas and feelings about their…Continue Reading Meaningful, Purposeful Writing, and Social Justice
A list of Recommended Indigenous Children’s Picture Books Dr. Judith Scott and Donna Scott (4th-6th grade teacher) November 2022 Since September contains California Native American Day, October has Indigenous People’s Day, and November is Native American Heritage Month, we thought it would be useful to compile a list of recommended books which are written by…Continue Reading Indigenous Children’s Picture Books