The Cal State Northridge Writing Project

Joining other UC and CSU sites to become the seventeenth site in the California Writing Project network, our Teacher Consultants work with teachers, schools, and local districts to improve student writing and learning. Download a copy of our brochure for an overview of the Cal State Northridge Writing Project and our programs, and share it with colleagues.

Participate in the National Day of Writing October 20, 2009 and post your writing to the National Gallery of writing!

The Senate has named October 20th as the National Day of Writing. Celebrate this day at home, in your classes, throughout your school! Then, upload your writing to the Cal State Northridge gallery in the National Gallery of Writing by clicking on the CONTRIBUTE poster to the left.

Please share our poster with colleagues and friends!

We held our first Invitational Summer Institute this July. Twelve teachers from elementary, middle, and high school classrooms spent four energizing (and sometimes exhausting!) weeks writing, talking about writing, and experiencing and discussing effective writing pedegogies to take back to their classrooms. We will begin looking for another group of outstanding teachers in grades K-university who are interested in joining us for the 2010 Invitational Summer Institute in mid-December.

In August we invited nearly sixty students to campus for The Write Stuff, our two week Young Writer's Camp for students entering 4th through 12th grades.

In addition to the Invitational Summer Institute, we will sponsor a number of exciting programs for the fall including ISAW, a California Writing Project Learning Community focused on Improving Student Academic Writing, a series of Saturday Seminars, and our Provost's Write to Literacy Conference on October 17th.

We are excited about the many opportunities to improve writing and the teaching of writing in our service area. Please email us if you have suggestions for our Web site or ideas about programs you would like to see come to the Cal State Northridge Writing Project

If you are a Teacher Consultant from another Writing Project and interested in working with us, please send us an email, giving your name, professional affiliation, and your home Writing Project.

Watch this Web site for program updates.