Welcome to the UCLA Writing Project, a site of the California Writing Project and National Writing Project since 1977. We work with teachers of all disciplines and levels, helping them not only to expand their repertoires as teachers but also as writers. We believe that all -- teachers and students --can become good writers and experience the satisfaction of capturing thoughts in just the right words.  

As you navigate our website, you'll see programs that range from a focus on enhancing the abilities of English learners, to assessing student writing, differentiating instruction and leveraging the particular talents Los Angeles area students bring to the classroom.

FEATURED UPCOMING PROGRAMS

• SATURDAY SEMINAR SERIES FOCUSING ON THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS
  

  SPRING 2012 - FEBRUARY 25, MARCH 3, MARCH 17, AND APRIL 21, 2012.

  Looking for professional development differentiated for your needs, professional development that emphasizes writing along with reading, speaking, and listening, in all disciplines?  In this Saturday Seminar Series, presentations will focus on inspiring and supporting students, as well as teachers, in the context of the new California Common Core Standards.  Mix and match elementary and secondary strands to suit your professional needs.  One Salary Point credit available for LAUSD employees.  Click for the brochure; click for registration form.
  
  

• BECOME A WRITING PROJECT FELLOW

  We welcome K-12, community college and university teachers who ar eager to demonstrate successful teaching practices and to expand repertoires in a collegial setting.  Fine tune teaching of good writing, develop presentation and coaching skills, experience professional renewal, consider the social just backdrop of schooling.  Click here for application.
  
  

• LAKE ARROWHEAD YOUNG WRITERS RETREAT
  

  MARCH 22-25, 2012

  For the last twenty-seven years the Lake Arrowhead Young Writers Retreat has been an annual event in which teachers and their young high school writers write together. Experience the joy and wonder of the San Bernardino Mountains for four days at the UCLA Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead.  Challenge your students and yourself in this intensive writing weekend as we explore the world of free writing, along with structured lessons and revision techniques. We begin on Thursday, March 15, 2012, just before dinner with registration, meeting new young writers, and finding our rooms in the chalets of the Conference Center. We continue until after lunch on Sunday. Adam Schmalholz, poet and performance artist, will join us again this year.

  March 15-18, 2012 UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead, CA
  $500.00 per person
  Conference registration. $190.00
  Download flyer

  Email hancock@gseis.ucla.edu or call 310.825.9495

• SUMMER YOUNG WRITERS
  

  SUMMER 2012

  Click here for a brochure and registration form for our High School Summer Young Writers Programs: Writing before College for students entering grades 9 - 12 and Writing the College Personal Statement for entering 12th grade.  Information about our Summer Young Writers programs for younger students will be available on this website February 2012. We offer programs for children entering grades 4-8 at a local school site, 

• STAND UP, SPEAK OUT WRITING CONTEST

  Sponsored by the UCLA Writing Project

  What does the world need to know about LGBTQ teens?  High School Students throughout the greater Los Angeles area responded to this question through short story, essay, letter and poem.  Some pieces were light-hearted, others more serious.  But all attempted to shed light on the realities of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and questioning teens. Click here to view the 2011 writing contest flyer or click here to view the three top winners of the 2010 Stand Up, Speak Out! Writing Contest.
  
  

• WITH DIFFERENT EYES CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER 3, 2012

  We are currently planning our 22nd annual With Different Eyes Conference where classroom colleagues K-university will engage us in hands-on workshops demonstrating practices successful with their own English learners across the disciplines.   Click here for descriptions of workshops presented at our 2011 conference.  A brochure and descriptions for the 2012 conference will be available in August 2012.