About Us

Want to learn a little bit more about an amazing group of educators?

Founded in 1979, the Boston Writing Project (BWP) is a program in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The goal of the BWP is to work with schools and teachers to improve the teaching and learning of writing in Massachusetts classrooms, Pre-K through 16. To further this goal, the BWP has conducted annual summer institutes, inservice programs and a graduate certificate program in the teaching of writing for a wide variety of urban and suburban schools and teachers. In all BWP activities, teachers write and examine their writing processes as well as those of their colleagues and students. The teaching of writing is approached in a cross-disciplinary context which focuses on current research, theory, and exemplary practice.The BWP is a local affiliate of the National Writing Project (NWP), the nation’s largest and most successful professional development organization for teachers of writing. Both NWP and BWP have been repeatedly recognized for excellence and for the success of their efforts.

This website is gathering space for the work of Boston Writing Project educators who are thinkers and writers. They have held space for their own writing practices while doing the work of educating for justice and humanity in the teaching of writing.