Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project

The Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project (PAWLP) is one of the oldest sites of the National Writing Project (NWP). PAWLP follows NWP's guiding principles and provides professional development, develops resources, generates research, and acts on knowledge to improve the teaching of writing and learning in schools and communities. PAWLP believes that access to high-quality educational experiences is a basic right of all learners and a cornerstone of equity. We work in partnership with institutions, organizations, and communities to develop and support leadership for educational improvement.

PAWLP offers summer and school-year courses and workshops in teaching writing, teaching literature, writing-reading connections, authentic assessment, and special topics of interest to educators. For information on how to bring a course or professional development program to your district

email Director Dr. Pauline Schmidt

or call 610-436-2202.

 

Virtual Writing Group Sessions: 9-10am

Please join us on the first Saturday of the month, when we come together to talk about our current projects.  Some members are working on picture books, novels in verse, and even books for 'grown-ups'!

Facilitators offer prompts, ideas, and feedback and even provide the luxury of some writing time.

 

Click here for the Zoom Link. 

 

Continuity Sessions: 10-11:15am

Welcome to Continuity with the PA Writing and Literature Project (PAWLP)! Join us on the first Saturday of every month to network with educators K-12 and beyond! We look forward to seeing you on ZOOM - Catherine, Warren, & Lynne Co-facilitators for Continuity, 2020 - 2021

 

Click here for the Zoom Link.

 

Anti-Bias/Social Justice Inquiry Group: 9-10:30am

Please join us on the third Saturday of the month, when we come together to discuss anti-racist education. 

Our next text will be This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. For our February 20 meeting, please read the introductory material and section I, “Children Passing in the Streets.” As this is a longer text, if you’re also able to read through Section II, “Entering the Lives of Others,” that would be great - we acknowledge that we’re all at different paces of reading, writing, and thinking, so these reading guidelines are flexible for you.

Our guiding inquiries for next month begin with the following questions (sourced by the regular group attendees):

How am I challenged by this text, and what do the authors affirm?
What do I learn from these texts and authors? What gaps in my knowledge and/or experience are revealed by this text? What else may I need to learn or transform to better appreciate the authors’ work, voice, and/or intentions?
What vision of a liberated future do the authors of this text present, and how do they contribute to our collective envisioning for the future?
How am I supporting and/or not supporting the authors’ visions?
What histories are revealed by this text?
How do we come to understand “women” from this text? What narratives and/or counternarratives about feminism occur in this text?
How will we utilize what we learn to move forward, for other women especially, including beyond this group?

Click here for the Zoom Link.

  

Around the Table with PAWLP
View our Fall 2019 Edition HERE

PAWLP's literary magazine is accepting personal narratives, poems, memoirs and fiction.  Also to be submitted are photos, artwork, royalty-free images from Google or other sources, drawings, sketches and music to be included with your writing. Please keep the word count under 2000. Send writings and any questions to aroundthetablewithpawlp@gmail.com.