The UCSB/South Coast Writing Project has been a site of the California and National Writing Projects since 1979. The center of the SCWriP program is its Summer Institute in Composition and Critical Literacy which is a combined think-tank and writers’ workshop, exploring applied and theoretical issues in the teaching of writing and critical literacy. Participants include a distinguished staff of resident and visiting scholars, teachers, writers, and, most importantly, outstanding classroom teachers from South Coast schools and colleagues like you! Participants are designated University Fellows of the South Coast Writing Project and are granted a fellowship stipend for their participation in the Institute and follow-up program. For four weeks in the summer, fellows meet together from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and are joined as colleagues by resident UCSB faculty members and an eminent group of visiting authors, researchers, theoreticians and curriculum specialists. In this context the Fellows demonstrate their own successful approaches to teaching writing and critical literacy, examine current theory and the results of recent research, write extensively, and provide helpful feedback on each other’s writing in small response groups. At the conclusion of the Summer Institute, the Fellows become members of the South Coast Writing Project staff and are thereby available as paid teacher-consultants for in-service programs conducted throughout the regular academic year. View SCWriP Archives for more info.

Nominations

Recommend a Fellow Teacher for SCWriP

Acknowledge an excellent teacher of writing from grades K-college who is a reflective practitioner and educator. First, the candidate must have at least three years of experience and demonstrate excellence in the classroom. Second, an ideal candidate integrates a student-centered curriculum in the classroom. Last, the teacher must have a passion for learning and growth.

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