Educational Organizations

Listed below are excellent educational organizations that can serve as resources to teachers interested in helping their students publish. Please notify me of any other organizations that should be posted here.

Bread Loaf School of English Bread Loaf hosts a graduate studies program each summer on four campuses located in the United States and England.

Columbia Scholastic Press Association is an international student press association uniting student journalists and faculty advisors at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchanges, and award programs. Its staff critiques and provides awards to outstanding student newspapers, magazines, and yearbooks. Site contains lists of both individual and school-wide winners in middle school, high school, and college newspapers, magazines, and yearbooks for the past four years.

Journalism Education Association

National Council of Teachers of English advocates the improvement of English and language arts education in the schools; site includes related links, publications, awards, conference information, and discussion groups for teachers of English.

National Elementary Schools Press Association is an organization dedicated to helping elementary and middle schools start new and improve existing class and school newspapers. The association serves as a clearinghouse for schools interested in sharing information and newspapers with member schools from coast to coast.

Educational research shows that students write more and better when they are writing regularly for a real audience. School newspapers offer kids wonderful writing opportunities for real audiences. NESPA helps schools pull everything together for members by publishing an extensive How-To Book and a regular newsletter (NESPAper) for member schools and individuals. These publications are filled with ideas, suggestions, hints, software reviews, and more. Teacher members are invited to submit their ideas and new discoveries for future editions of both publications.

National Scholastic Press Association is a national membership association for high school publications (e.g., newspapers, magazines, yearbooks), offering conventions, contests, and other valuable resources. Lists Best of Press Online Awards for high school newspapers, yearbooks, and CD-Rom Yearbooks, as well as, awards to published student presses.

National Writing Project
The national connection for teachers seeking to improve student writing and learning in the classroom through professional development. NWP has an extensive network of teachers working to promote exemplary instruction of writing in the U.S.A.

Oregon Students Writing & Art Foundation: Clearly, the Oregon Students Writing & Art Foundation is establishing a level of excellence not only for Oregon but for the entire country.” Donald Graves, author of Writing: Teachers & Students at Work.

In 1985 the Oregon Students Writing & Art Foundation, a non-profit tax exempt organization, was founded by Chris Weber with the support and encouragement of the Oregon Reading Association. The Foundation publishes writing and artwork by students to enhance literacy and to promote cross-cultural understanding. It is an affiliate of the Oregon Reading Association.

Since 1985 the Foundation has published four books. Student editors have been involved in every aspect of production, except for the printing. With the assistance of teachers and students in Oregon, the Foundation published Treasures: Stories & Art by Students in Oregon and Treasures 2: Stories & Art by Students in Oregon. Students, teachers, officials, and business people in the United States and Japan worked together to publish the English and Japanese versions of Treasures 3: Stories & Art by Students in Japan & Oregon.

Chris Weber has been working with his Japanerse counterpart,Takao Mimura, Instructor at Graduate School of Education in Joestu University of Education, on an international student publication that will result in a book of impressions. It will contain students’ impressions of stories they read in Treasures 3 and stories they were inspired to write. Students from Guam, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, and the United States are represented. For more information and guidelines about this and other upcoming projects, please contact Chris Weber by sending him an e-mail message to him.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative of New York City runs a writers-in-the-schools program, as well as offering other resources for teachers.

Vermont Community Works' mission is to promote exemplary teaching strategies, practices, programs and models that support students becoming caring, responsible and active members of their communities. They provide resources for educators that include curriculum exemplars, tools and technical assistance. They also offer specialized support for documentation and multimedia publication. They work with individual schools and districts, and with regional programs and organizations.Their resources and publications-in-print and on-line- have been accessed and used by educators from across the US, Canada, and around the world.

Write to Change is a non-profit organization with the mission of promoting school and community projects that encourage action research, writing, and public service.

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