Daytona Beach Writing Project
Daytona Beach Writing Project
A National Writing Project
Bethune-Cookman University
School of Arts and Humanities
940 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Site Director: Mary Corliss
Co-Directors: Jan Hoston, Kathy Holt, Leah Paul
Contact the site director at dbwp@cookman.edu or (386) 481-2362
**Below is a link to the web site we used to upload and share documents during the 2011 Invitational Summer Institute. See some of the activities from our first Invitational Summer Institute.
https://sites.google.com/site/daytonabeachwritingproject/
History: In February of 2011, Bethune-Cookman University was awarded a grant to become the first National Writing Project site on the Florida East Coast. The university became one of two established NWP sites in the state and joins a professional network of over 200 sites on college campuses in the United States and the Virgin Islands.
The NWP is a professional network of teachers under the Department of Education who come together to share ideas for improving the instruction of writing. Local teachers and university faculty will be invited to participate in both summer and year-around programs focused on improving student writing through a teachers teaching teachers model.
The School of Arts and Humanities sponsors the university’s site with Mary Corliss as director and Jan Holston as assistant director. Leah Paul and Kathy Holt serve as assistant directors from the Volusia County public school system.
The Daytona Beach Writing Project hosted its first Summer Institute, an invitational four-week workshop in July and August, which provided intensive research, exploration and development of the best practices in writing and writing instruction. Participants studied successful classroom strategies for teaching writing, read and discussed research, and improved their knowledge of writing by writing extensively themselves. Participants from the university and local k-12 schools could earn graduate credits from Bethune-Cookman University upon completion of the institute.
Please visit the National Writing Project’s website at www.nwp.org for more information.
