Tar River Writing Project

The Tar River Writing Project is part of a national network of sites located in universities around the United States. Each site conducts a Summer Institute and sponsors Professional Development Workshops during the school year. Sites also design programs that address local issues and the particular needs of schools, teachers, and students in their communities.

Recent independent research has found that, on average, 98 percent of participating teachers believe that NWP Summer Institutes are the best professional development experiences they have had. Likewise, an independent national scoring of student writing shows that student improvement in NWP teachers' classrooms outpaced those of students in carefully constructed comparison programs.

Any teacher, kindergarten to college, will find a rewarding experience at the TRWP Summer Institute! In fact, most effective institutes are those that have a diverse group of teachers from across the various subject areas. Do students write in your classes? Do you care about student writing and improving as a writing teacher? Do you want to develop even better writing assignments? Then you should apply to the TRWP Summer Invitational Institute!