Browsing Category: NYCWP Blog

  • NYCWP Teacher Leader Julie Edmonds in the News

    The New York City Writing Project’s Teacher Leader Julie Edmonds wrote a piece on her involvement with Assignments Matter for “The Current.” In her article, Edmonds shares her experience with the student jury that judged (and chose) her assignment and how the feedback from students has provided a productive way to develop purposeful assignments for classrooms. …

    April 9, 2019
  • Remembering Nancy Mintz

      It is with enormous sadness that we announce the passing of Nancy Mintz, dear friend, respected colleague, and former Director of the New York City Writing Project, after a valiant battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends, but also to Nancy herself, who loved us and …

    October 14, 2016
  • Stories of Impact

    The NYCWP is very excited to announce the publication of Stories of Impact! This ebook is a collection of essays that chronicle the work and impact of the New York City Writing Project’s on-site teacher-consultant program. Since 1981, the program has placed full-time teacher-consultants in schools across New York City to work closely with teachers in …

    September 6, 2016
  • From the Director’s Notebook: Post-July Update

    August, 2016   Dear NYCWP Community,   For many reasons, 2016 was another great summer at the NYCWP. This July saw a shift in thinking about how we structure our summer programming and what we offer teachers; I continue to be amazed not only by the flexibility of this community, but also by everyone’s willingness …

    August 4, 2016
  • Alison Koffler-Wise receives BRIO Award, 2016!

    The NYCWP is thrilled to announce to our community that our very own Alison Koffler-Wise is the 2016 recipient of the BRIO Award for Poetry from the Bronx Council for the Arts! Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) provides direct support to individual Bronx artists who create literary, media, visual, and performing works of art. 25 …

    May 20, 2016
  • Summer Opportunities!

      “Summer” at the New York City Writing Project used to be synonymous with our Invitational Summer Institute (now called the Invitational Leadership Institute), but times have changed, and the NYCWP has evolved its programming to meet a wider range of teacher needs. It has always been our model to meet teachers where they are …

    April 28, 2016
  • Director’s Notebook: NWP Annual Meeting 2016

      Dear NYCWP Community, Every November, the National Writing Project gathers for its Annual Meeting the week prior to Thanksgiving. This year, my travel was funded by HIVE Digital Media Learning Fund, for which I am very grateful. The Annual Meeting is wonderful; I always look forward to gathering with teachers from the WP community, …

    December 15, 2015
  • Past Events

    Curious about what the NYCWP has been up to over the past few years?  Here’s a list of some of our past events: The NYCWP hosted its 19th Annual Teacher-to-Teacher Conference (#T2T17) on Saturday, March 18th, 2017. More information about the Teacher-to-Teacher Conference this year can be found on the NYCWP’s blog, which covered the day’s …

    January 7, 2015
  • International Community Voices – ICHS & NYCWP receive competitive LRNG Grant

    The New York City Writing Project is thrilled to announce that one of its partner schools, the International Community High School (ICHS) in the Bronx, has been awarded a competitive LRNG Grant from Educator Innovator, NWP, the MacArthur Foundation and John Legend’s Show Me Campaign.  This was one of fourteen proposals from around the country …

    December 9, 2014