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Information for SDAWP Fellows

SDAWP Fellows are teachers who have completed the Invitational Summer Institute (SI), SDAWP's cornerstone teacher leadership program. Since 1977, more than 400 teachers have participated in the SI and many remain active members of the SDAWP community. Socially responsible approaches to teaching writing provide for a variety of SDAWP-sponsored and collaborative roles for our teacher leaders, including local school and district reform efforts that support the education and success of San Diego's culturally and linguistically diverse student population.

Study Groups

In addition to participating in the SI, many SDAWP Fellows and selected colleagues participate in teacher research Study Groups, which provide a powerful forum for dialogue and help to broaden understanding of reflective practices.

The San Diego Area Writing Project (SDAWP) continues to support teachers as they inquire into teaching and learning in their own classrooms. Monthly Study Group meetings provide a forum for SDAWP Fellows and colleagues to engage in professional, informing conversations, collect observational and related data, write and respond in small groups, and read professional texts, articles, and case studies. 

Groups are designed to assist and support teachers at all grade levels and in all subject areas as they examine how their students learn, with the intention of both improving their teaching practice and improving student learning.

Teacher researchers consider various approaches to classroom inquiry that focus on teacher observation, documentation, reflection, implementation, analysis, and articulation, both oral and written, as a recursive process.

For more information about participating, please email SDAWP Director Kim Douillard.

A Strong Research Base

The SDAWP believes in the professionalism of teachers. As professionals we read, discuss and write about current research. Focusing on current issues related to teaching and learning, participants in our programs read books and articles on such topics as:

  • Teaching academic writing /writing to learn
  • Inquiry-based instruction
  • Enriching mandated curricula
  • Responding to student writing
  • Developing effective writing assignments
  • Using informal writing to scaffold learning

Academic research serves to broaden the knowledge base of participants in our programs and provide a classroom-based foundation for that knowledge.

Young Writers' Camp

You may be interested in learning more about the SDAWP's summer writing program for students: Young Writers' Camp. As an SDAWP Fellow you are able to join us and teach a summer writing camp program! If you are interested please email Angela Ojeda.