Consultant Services

CBWP offers high quality professional development in writing instruction. We base our work on the model of the National Writing Project, which has a proven track record of success in improving student writing. As a local organization, CBWP can maintain long term support for area teachers and schools wanting to implement significant curricular change in writing.

We offer two kinds of Professional Development:
 
1) Individual events open to any educator in the Coastal Bend.
2) Special programs in contract with individual schools or districts
  • This includes long-term, in-school programs.
  
Some of our current programs are listed below:
 
  • Authentic and Real World Writing for Students
  • Conferring with Student Writer - Feedback and Peer Review
  • Engaging and Supporting Struggling Writers
  • Source Based Argument Writing
  • STAAR - Test Genre Writing
  • The Reading / Writing Connection
  • Using Mentor Texts in Writing Instruction
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
  • Writers Workshop - Design and Management
 
Contact the CBWP Director for information about contracting with us for writing-based PD in your school or district.