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Research - Professional Development

Sonia Nieto Explores What Sustains Teachers

April 2008
Sonia Nieto, a leading authority in bilingual and multicultural education, delivered the keynote address at NWP's 2008 Spring Meeting. She explored the question of what sustains teachers in challenging situations and discussed the implications for professional development. More ›

Transforming Writing: Teacher-Consultants Lead Change in Their Schools

September 2007
Linda Friedrich
This article analyzes the stories of NWP Vignette Study participants who facilitated change in their schools, identifying and elaborating upon three concepts that seem key to successful leadership within a school. More ›

Teachers, Writers, Leaders

Educational Leadership, September 2007
Ann Lieberman, Linda Friedrich
Using data from NWP's Vignette Study, the authors describe how teachers take on leadership roles and how building community is crucial to their success. More ›

The Local Site Research Initiative: Learning Important Lessons and Setting Future Direction

The Voice, 2005
Linda Friedrich, Paul LeMahieu
Through the Local Site Research Initiative, NWP is building rigorous, context-specific evaluation studies focusing on writing project sites' work. Participating sites design and conduct a research study framed by locally important questions. More ›

Writing to Learn for Preservice Teachers

The Quarterly, 2005
Samuel Totten
Why do few teachers incorporate writing-to-learn strategies into their classrooms? The answer, according to the author, is not very complicated: they have never been taught these strategies. More ›

The Parallel Universes of Theory and Practice: One Teacher's Journey

The Quarterly, Spring 1998
Beverly Paesano
Frustrated that the traditional approaches she'd been taught "did not help children write more fluently," the author describes her evolution as she came to understand the work of Britton, Moffett, and others. More ›