The interactive features of the Nebraska Writing Project are open to all teachers who have participated in a Nebraska Writing Project institute. Our social network space, blogs, podcasts, and interactive forums are intended to help Nebraska Writing Project teachers continue the collaborative work of the NeWP network: sharing their own writing, enhancing writing in their schools and communities, and serving as teacher-leaders in Nebraska schools.
Please click on the appropriate buttons to enter any of NeWP’s interactive spaces. (For many features, first time users will need to create profiles and wait for activation by site administrators.)
If you are brand new to NeWP and need more information, please visit our main webpage at www.unl.edu/newp, and the main webpage of the National Writing Project (our parent organization) nwp.org.
Mission Statement
The Nebraska Writing Project, a network of professional educators and affiliated writers, provides opportunities to improve, enhance and celebrate writing for classrooms and communities across Nebraska.
Belief Statements
- The best teachers of writing are writers themselves.
- Teachers provide the best instruction for other teachers.
- Anyone, no matter their ability level, can improve their writing in a supportive context with other practicing writers.
- True school reform comes through democratic partnerships across grade levels.
- Teachers, students and communities benefit when teachers form networks with other teachers and draw on collective expertise.
Goals
- To provide educators, through continuing Nebraska Writing Project programs, opportunities to:
- write,
- network with other teachers,
- reflect on and improve teaching, and
- act publicly to improve education in our state and region.
- To provide schools, colleges, and universities with an effective professional development model.
- To identify, celebrate, and enhance the professional roles of successful classroom teachers.