Campus Connection: Summer program helps teachers become better writers

Local educators are being encouraged to submit applications for the Greater Madison Writing Project?s annual summer institute. The writing project is designed to help teachers at all grade levels, from kindergarten through college, learn effective techniques for teaching writing. The local initiative housed at UW-Madison is tied to the National Writing Project, which is a network of 200 sites anchored at colleges and universities across the country. UW-Madison’s Mark Dziezdic, one of the GMWP’s directors, says the program hopes to assemble a cohort of about 15 teachers for this year’s summer institute.