This is the accompanying slideshow for the afternoon plenary at the 2011 NWP Annual Meeting.

1. LOOKING BACK,
LOOKING FORWARD

2. 1974

8. Seeding an Idea
…The UC Berkeley/Bay Area Writing Project can
touch the nation; it can effect major educational
reform. …We can change things in this country.
And few people ever have that opportunity.
James Gray, Memorandum
August 23, 1976

9. 1979

11. Connecting a National Network 1.0
When I experienced the culture of the summer
institute, [I knew] this is for us. It drew on the
strengths of teachers, there was a confidence
and a camaraderie there that I’d never seen in a
graduate classroom.
Sandra Burkett Price, Interview,
January 11, 2008

12. Confronting Key Educational
Challenges
…And the fact that we put diversity at the center
of this, as well as second language issues … was
something that really went to the heart of it for
all the people who participated. …
Richard Sterling, Interview,
April 9, 2008

13. 1991

14. Connecting a National Network 2.0
But at the National Writing Project level,
someone like myself … can talk to people from a
wide range of other areas with other interests
and discover where there’s overlap, discover
where there’s difference, discover how the good
teaching of writing kind of transcends some of
those borders.
Michael Thompson, Interview
November 29, 2010

15. 2011

16. Staying Power
Out of
Education
Education, non- 3%
teaching
20%
Teaching
77%

17. Lasting Impact
100%
90%
80% Influence of WP Experience
70% Apply Knowledge/Skills
60%
Influence of WP Attitudes and
50%
Values
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
No Yes

21. NWP Core Principles

22. Thank you!
 Selamawit Fessehaie
 Luke Hokama
 James Stapleton
 Sherry Swain