Teachers and Administrators Resources
Local Writing Resources
- phren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers. Click here
- WomenCare Writing Circle for Women with Cancer Click here
- Bookshop Santa Cruz Young Writer’s Contest Click here
- ALLIES: a website for PVUSD middle and high school teachers involved in a CCWP project on the CCSS and writing Click here
- The UCSC Department of Education Click here
- The UCSC Writing Program Click here
Writing Project Resources
- The California Writing Project: 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. Click here
- National Writing Project: The National Writing Project focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation’s educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners. Click here
- Newsletter: the National Writing Project’s bi-monthly email newsletter that provides news updates, links to articles of interest to writing teachers, and other information about the NWP community. Click here
- California Dept of Education: California Common Core State Standards.Click here
- Adolescent Literacy Toolkit: Developed by the CCSSO to encourage and prepare content-area teachers to embed literacy strategies into their discipline-specific instruction. Click here
- Common Core State Standards: Home page for ELA. Click here
- Library of Congress, Teaching modules using primary sources Click here
Classroom Resources: Activities for teaching
Writing Project Resources:
- Improving Students’ Analytical Writing
- California Writing Project’s parent handbook
- California Writing Project’s Resources and Downloads
- National Writing Project
- Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
- E-Voice: the National Writing Project’s bi-monthly email newsletter that provides news updates, links to articles of interest to writing teachers, and other information about the NWP community.
Places to publish students’ writing:
Teacher tools for curriculum and assessment:
Tools to use with students:
- Easy access to 13 links in Voices From the Middle article Getting Connected: Writing Strategies on the Web
- Newsela– Social Studies/ current events texts for students
Online Projects/Representations
Poetry Resources