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Interested in becoming a teacher consultant and educational leader in your school?  Find out more about our 2012 summer invitational institute here.


Celebrations and News

Boise State Writing Project Helps Launch K-12 Service-Learning Initiatives in Public Schools:
Boise State’s thriving Service-Learning Program integrates academics and service for college students. Now, through work with the Boise State Writing Project, 39 Idaho teachers will carry the proven benefits of combining service with learning into their K-12 classrooms this fall. Read more about it in the article!



Interested in our Summer Institute?  You can see a sampling of what we are doing this summer by viewing our Wiki here. Applications come out in February and we would love for you to apply. Check back here then to download an application!

Here's a glimpse of how the Invitational Summer Institute went for 2011!


THE TEN - a series of 110 books for young
people -. edited by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, with books by BSWP Teacher Consultants are available through Scholastic! Check them out, and find a topic to add to the collection!


There are over 110 books of The Ten.


Advanced Reading Initiative Featured in Scholastic DVD

As summer kicked into high gear, dozens of educators and students from across Idaho came together in an unlikely place — the classroom. They participated in the Advanced Reading Initiative, a progressive educational program administered by the Boise State Writing Project (BSWP). During the week, they were the subjects of an instructional DVD being shot during clinics at Fairmont Junior High School by Scholastic, a major American publisher and distributor of children’s materials.



Have you read a good educational article or book lately? Add it to the NRI/NWP wiki here!  Developed through the National Reading Initiative, this electronic binder is a tool that helps record how we use readings to inquire into, understand, and discuss reading comprehension and various aspects of literacy and literacy education that relate to reading comprehension. This wiki will offer you the chance to see what and how teacher-consultants and sites have read around this topic, to add to the record, and to think about using such a resource in other areas of work at our site.

Would you like to learn more about BSWP? Download our flier, read, and then share!


Upcoming Events

BSWP events calendar

2012 Institutes:

  • Invitational summer Institute: The National Writing Project is dedicated to the improvement of literacy instruction in our nation's schools, particularly through the means of composition as a unique and powerful way of learning and knowing in all curricular areas and at all grade levels.





 Service Learning and Inquiry – Meeting and Exceeding the CCSS

For registering online, please use this handout to assist you!

For more information on the Common Core State Standards, links from our presentations, and how we can help you prepare, go to our CCSS page.


Interested in attending our Rethinking Teaching Meetings? We usually meet the second Tuesday from each month  from 3:30-5:30 at Alia's on Main Street in downtown Boise.  Click here to check the calendar for this month's meeting date.  Come when you can--there are always people wandering in and out.  We will break into groups based on who shows up and needs you have, but there will definitely be an AP group, a Common Core State Standards Group, a Content Area group and an Inquiry group.  Come join us for great conversations and sharing of ideas.  Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested.

Project Citizen/Senior Project Info
A curricular program designed by the Center for Civic Education and administered in-state by the Idaho Human Rights Education Center, Project Citizen provides a practical, first-hand approach to learning about our complex system of government and how to monitor and influence it. Students work together to conduct research in their community in order to discover problems or concerns that they think the government is not handling at all or not handling well. Open this document for more information.

Apply for learning odysseys -- The Fund for Teachers invites  educators from across the country to submit proposals for their own  do-it-yourself learning odysseys next summer. Destinations and  disciplines are limitless as previous itineraries over the past nine  years include tours, conferences and independent studies on every  continent. Multiple grants - of $5,000 for individuals and team  grants of up to $10,000 -- will be awarded. For more information,  please visit http://www.fundforteachers.org/.

The Boise State Writing Project offers professional development workshops for administrators and teachers addressing the implementation of The Common Core Standards. The workshops can be modified and geared toward specific district needs surrounding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). For more information, take a look at our flyer!



 BSWP is an affiliate of the National Writing Project and was established at Boise State in 2005. It offers programming throughout the year, including two annual conferences, a variety of courses and institutes, in-service series for schools, workshops and workshop series, retreats, programs for student writers and sponsored speeches and workshops with literacy experts. This past year, more than 1,000 Idaho educators received more than 30,000 hours of assistance.