Program Overview

The Lehigh Valley Writing Project (LVWP) is a National Writing Project program committed to offering professional development that supports and enhances the literacy lives of all stakeholders in our learning communities. To that end, we offer the following:

For Program Administrators:
• Workshops linked to State Assessment and Curriculum needs designed to create, strengthen, and align district curriculum as well as target areas of specific need
• Consultations for development, collection, and management of program benchmarks to align programs K-12

For Professional Teaching Staff:
• Needs assessments for program design specific to school culture
• In-house staff development presented by Teacher Consultants who share current strategies and student samples from their own classrooms
• Grade- and subject-specific training for areas of greatest concern (ESL strategies, Math writing, Science literacy, Reading initiatives, etc.)
• Follow up literacy coaching support and classroom visitation to deepen impact of staff training
• New teacher induction sessions designed to introduce new faculty to district literacy initiative

For Individual Teachers:
• Summer Invitational Writing Institute (optional link to ESL Master's Program)
• Pre-Institute Coursework
• Advanced-Institutes in areas of interest to our Fellows Base
• Attendance and Presentation Opportunities at State and National Conferences
• Literacy Retreats and "Best Practices" for professional development and ACT 48 credit
• Teachers-as-Writers Groups and Writing Marathons
• Staff development opportunities for Fellows as teacher consultants in their own schools and neighboring districts
• Leadership roles as coordinators of programming within LVWP structure
• Research and grant opportunities

For Students in our Schools:
• Summer Youth Reading and Writing Camps
• Outreach opportunities such as Youth Connections programs designed to provide K-12 academic enrichment in areas such as technology, career awareness, character education, and more

For Families:
• Family literacy sessions at satellite locations in areas such as Computer Technology, “real world” writing and reading survival skills, etc.
• Outreach programs specifically for ELL families to invite connection to school environment as well as enhance their own adult literacy

For Life-long Learners:
• Senior Academies for introducing and strengthening contemporary literacies such as computer skills, memoir writing, etc.

Meet the Leadership Team

*As part of the National Writing Project Network, the LVWP is an authorized provider for No Child Left Behind programming.