CWP Support for School and District Improvement and Professional Learning Plans
Because writing matters, the California Writing Project supports teachers and students, schools and districts with a model of professional development that has a forty-year track record of success and effectiveness.
CWP professional learning programs provide:
- support for California’s CCSS Systems Implementation Plan at the overview, transition, and implementation stages
- research-based methods in the teaching of writing
- standards-aligned professional development: Common Core State Standards, California’s new ELD standards, and disciplinary content standards
- special attention to the academic needs of English learners
- intensive support for improving student achievement and preparing students for high-stakes, state and university writing assessments
- collaboration with schools and districts to meet improvement goals and, until NCLB/ESEA is reauthorized, adequate yearly progress as well
- designs for comprehensive, effective writing programs
- strategies for using technology as a tool to teach and improve writing and learning.
To access information about CWP statewide and regional programs, link to any of the following that support your school/district goals and priorities:
Common Core State Standards from Overview to Implementation
English Learners and the new ELD Standards
College and Career Readiness
Digital Writing and Learning
Common Core State Standards from Overview to Implementation
English Learners and the new ELD Standards
College and Career Readiness
Digital Writing and Learning
Funding that supports contracting or partnering with CWP and its regional sites:
Title I, Part A –
Title II, Part A –
Title II, Part D –
Title III, Part A –
Title VII, Part A –
Title I, Part A –
- professional development and mentoring programs for Title I schools and teachers, including Migrant Education teachers
Title II, Part A –
- professional development for helping teachers who have not yet met NCLB teacher requirements
- professional development in subject-matter knowledge, improving teaching skills, assisting teachers to use California’s adopted standards and state assessments to improve student achievement.
Title II, Part D –
- professional development focused on enhancing education through technology for those schools with residual funds
Title III, Part A –
- professional development focused on improving instruction for English learners
Title VII, Part A –
- professional development focused on improving the instruction of Native American students.
CWP is an approved provider for California's Education Technology K-12 Voucher Program.
Schools or districts that still have funds to expend and want to provide teachers and students support for using technology to improve the teaching and learning of writing should contact their regional writing project site. Link to Regional Sites in the navigation bar.
Schools or districts that still have funds to expend and want to provide teachers and students support for using technology to improve the teaching and learning of writing should contact their regional writing project site. Link to Regional Sites in the navigation bar.