The cherry trees were just starting to bloom, during this year's meeting, which took place March 22-25th |
Every spring, writing project teachers gather in Washington, DC for the spring meeting of the National Writing Project. We visit our senators and representatives on Capitol Hill to update them on the work we are doing at our local sites, and we ask them to support the parts of the federal budget that NWP competes for in its next round of grant-seeking. This year, we also had the launch of the second round of College-Ready Writers Program (CRWP) Advanced Institutes and the first launch of the CRWP High-Needs School Programs.
This year, Kelly Sassi was the only writing project representative from North Dakota, so she spoke on