The Greater Madison Writing Project (GMWP) is an affiliate of the National Writing Project (NWP) network, a nationally-acclaimed professional learning community that puts educators’ knowledge, experience, and voices at its center.
Our Vision is to lead an education revolution through writing where teachers are at the center and students are at the heart of every classroom, school, and district in our nation.
Our Mission is to serve as a professional home that nurtures, inspires, and empowers educators to be engaged writers, researchers, leaders, and activists in their schools and communities so they will nurture, inspire, and empower students to be writers, researchers, leaders, and activists, themselves.
GMWP offers both professional development for educators as well as enrichment opportunities for children and young adult writers. GMWP is a joint effort between the College of Letters & Science and the School of Education.
GMWP Programs
College, Community, and Career Writers Programs
A program that answers the contemporary call for respectful argument discourse.
Early Career Educator Academy
A weeklong institute for educators in the first five years of their career.
GMWP Online Yearlong Institute
Dedicated to learning from the pandemic and creating a more humane, responsive, and equitable education for all students, educators, and communities.
Invitational Summer Institute
A unique professional development opportunity working with outstanding teachers and student-writers.
Invitational Yearlong Institute
The Yearlong Institute represents the first leg in what thousands of Writing Project Teacher-Leaders around the country have described as a career-transforming journey.