Contracted Professional Development for Schools & Districts
GVWP tailors professional development programs to the needs and interests of individual schools and districts. We invite superintendents, principals, professional development coordinators to talk with us about designing a program, one that will continue over time, that will focus not only on strategies and approaches but on building rubrics, looking at student work, and coaching teachers as they return to their classrooms. Please read below for a small sampling of the programs available. See what administrators are saying  about partnering with the writing project. See funding sources.
Improving the Writing and Learning of English Learners
Teachers will align curriculum to EL Standards to build writing fluency, develop voice, and introduce audience and purpose in the writing of EL students through scaffolded instructional approaches demonstrated by teacher consultants.
Teacher consultants lead Young Writers Camps for EL students integrating best practices in EL writing and literacy instruction. See evaluation summary.pdf of 2007 YWCs.
Qualities of Good Writing
The traits of writing framework is a powerful way to create a common vision and common language for what “good” writing looks like. Teachers and students can use the traits model to pinpoint areas of strengths and weakness as they continue to focus on continued writing improvement. The traits are: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions.
Writing with State Adoptions
Learn to build upon the strengths of adopted texts and gain proven strategies to help all students meet California state standards for writing. Explore key classroom practices that promote student success in all types of writing including: writing instructions, journal writing, report writing, descriptive writing, personal narrative, story writing, persuasive writing and letter writing.
The Multigenre Research Paper, Grades 3-8 (see course content)
This course offers educators a hands-on, in-depth view of the multigenre writing experience. Learn how projects with real choices, varied roles, and purpose-driven tasks can transform writing and learning.
Teaching Writing in an Intervention Classroom
Maximize the strengths of High Point, the state-adopted intervention program. Experienced presenters will model effective approaches that motivate and support English language learners and other struggling adolescent writers and demonstrate specific ways to scaffold High Point activities to enhance student success in various types of writing.
Targeting the CAHSEE
Examine critical attributes of the tested writing genre of the CAHSEE as well as the reading skills students find most challenging. Instructional strategies targeted writing types include: persuasive, expository, and response to literature.
Successful Primary Writers
Primary students need daily instruction in writing and practicing putting their ideas into writing, daily, as soon as possible. Demonstrations include spiraling instruction in decoding and encoding, sentence building, expository writing, narrative stories.
Professional Reading Book Clubs
Teachers meet monthly to read and discuss a significant professional text. All text selections complement E-LA content standards and CSTP professional growth standards.
Possible Funding Sources: 
As affiliates of the National Writing Project, the Great Valley Writing Project is authorized under NCLB, Title I, Part F as professional development providers for school and district comprehensive school reform (IIUSP/High Priority Schools/Program Improvement Schools).
As affiliates of the National Writing Project, the Great Valley Writing Project is authorized under NCLB, Title II, Part C to be providers of standards-aligned professional development for teachers and principals.
- ELAP
- EIA
- AB 466
- Gear Up
- Goals 2000
- 21st Century Grants
HOUSEE Points:
Points are awarded solely at the discretion of each school district. GVWP is authorized by the California State Board of Education to provide professional development. Teachers may complete GVWP courses to earn HOUSEE points.
Units Available:
One unit of California State University, Stanislaus Extended Education credit is available for every 15 hours of professional development at $40 per unit.
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