Teachers and Administrators Resources

Local Writing Resources

• phren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers.
• WomenCare Writing Circle for Women with Cancer
• Bookshop Santa Cruz Young Writer’s Contest
• The UCSC Department of Education
• The UCSC Writing Program

Writing Project Resources

• The California Writing Project: Because writing matters, the California Writing Project supports teachers and students, schools and districts with a model of professional development with a forty-year track record of success and effectiveness.
• National Writing Project: The National Writing Project focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation’s educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners.
• Newsletter: the National Writing Project’s bi-monthly email newsletter that provides news updates, links to articles of interest to writing teachers, and other information about the NWP community.

Government Resources

• California Dept of Education: California Common Core State Standards.
• Common Core State Standards: Home page for ELA. Click here
• Library of Congress, Teaching modules using primary sources

Classroom Resources: Activities for teaching

Writing Project Resources

• 2016-ISAW-Brochure-FinalForNow.pdf
• California Writing Project’s parent handbook
• National Writing Project
  • NWP’s hands-on activity book
  • Impact of the National Writing Project’s College-Ready Writers Program on Teachers and Students
  • WRITING PROJECT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES TO YIELD GAINS IN STUDENT WRITING ACHIEVEMENT
  • Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
  • E-Voice: the National Writing Project’s bi-monthly email newsletter that provides news updates, links to articles of interest to writing teachers, and other information about the NWP community.

Places to publish students’ writing

• Scholastic

Teacher tools for curriculum and assessment

• 4teachers.org

Tools to use with students

• Newsela – Social Studies/ current events texts for students

Online Projects/Representations

• Digital Stories and the Center for Digital Storytelling

Poetry Resources

• Poetry 180
• Teen Poetry- Power Poetry

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