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Making Literacy 2014
Tar River Writing project cordially invites you to participate in our 2014 Making Literacy teacher professional development institute July 28 – August 1 at East Carolina University. What is literacy? […]
Young Writers Camps: Summer 2014
This summer the Tar River Writing Project will sponsor several camps for young writers in Pitt County and the surrounding area. We welcome writers at all ability levels who want […]
Summer 2013 Offerings
The Tar River Writing Project is proud to announce several excellent options for teachers and young writers in the coming summer months! For Teachers In June, area teachers will have […]
NCWP Common Core Institute
The voices and expertise of classroom teachers have been utterly absent from the Common Core State Standards. It’s hard to argue this fact when you look around at all the […]
Teaching Genre: Taking NDOW Back to School
Bryan Wallen, social studies teacher at J. H. Rose high school, participated in Fall 2012’s National Day on Writing. While his studies moved around campus, writing and thinking in different […]
Project Connect Symposium
At TRWP, we’re excited about the first Project Connect Symposium that was hosted at J. H. Rose high school in Greenville, NC, on January 8, 2013. Beginning in Summer 2012, […]
2012 National Day on Writing a Success!
Friday, October 19, 2012, was a busy day for those of us at ECU, particularly those involved with the Tar River Writing Project and the University Writing Program! Beginning at […]
National Day on Writing 2011
In Fall 2011, the Tar River Writing Project, the University Writing Program, and the English department at ECU joined with colleges, universities, schools, and communities all over the country in […]
Composing the White House
A big thank you to our friends at Wellstone Action! for inviting us to the White House to talk about education, literacy innovation, and achievement and a special recognition of […]
Parent-Child Literacy Nights
As part of TRWP’s ongoing “Teacher Spotlight” series, which highlights the work of local TRWP teachers, we would like to congratulate Ms. Debra Pagona, a second-grade (and former Reading Recovery) teacher at W. H. Robinson Elementary School in Winterville, NC, whose idea for a Parent-Child Literacy Night took off this year at her school. Debra participated in the 2009 Invitational Summer Institute, where some of her ideas for this event began to take shape. When she decided to put thought to action and make the literacy nights a reality, Debra returned to the TRWP to participate in our 2010-2011 Teacher Inquiry Project, a teacher-centered research collaborative which works to support innovative classroom and extra-curricular projects for teachers in Eastern North Carolina.
