Professional Development

Coastal Savannah Writing Project (CSWP) focus on the mission of improving the teaching of writing and improving the use of writing across the disciplines by offering high-quality professional development programs for educators, in the coastal region of South Carolina and Georgia,  at all grade levels, K–16 and across the curriculum.

CSWP holds summer institutes in writing and reading to develop a leadership cadre of local teachers delivering customized in-service programs and workshops for local schools and institutions providing continuing education and research opportunities and support for teachers.

The Coastal Savannah Writing Project's professional development programs are tailored to suit the needs and interests of individual schools and districts. CSWP can provide interactive in-services during the school day or summer months, on-site coaching, assistance with curriculum and planning, Saturday workshops, and fall and spring conferences on the Armstrong campus. CSWP also offers GADOE-approved and registered Professional Learning Unit courses for certification renewal credit. A fee schedule is available upon request.

Included in offerings for professional development in-­services, workshops and consultations are:

Teaching K-12 WRITING Across the Curriculum

• Writing to Learn: Using Response Journals Across the Curriculum (6 hours) or Before and During Reading Response (3 hours) and After-Reading Response (3 hours)
• Steps and Strategies of Teaching Writing in all Content Areas (3 hours)
• Writing Workshop Across the Curriculum (3 hours)
• Teaching Informative Writing in ELA and the Content Areas [CCSS] (3 hours)
• Teaching Argument Writing in ELA and the Content Areas [CCSS] (3 hours)
• Teaching Narrative Writing in ELA and Narrative Elements for Cross-Curricular Informational Writing [CCSS] (3 hours)
• Poetry Writing Across the Curriculum

Teaching Grade 3-12 READING COMPREHENSION Across the Curriculum

• Direct Instruction: Strategic Reading for Comprehension: Teaching Before-Reading, During-Reading, and After-Reading Strategies Across the Curriculum (3-6 hours)
• Content-Area Literacy: Strategies for Reading Nonfiction/Informational Texts (3 hours)
  • Teaching Text Features
  • Teaching Text Structures
• #1 Strategy of Increasing Comprehension: Writing to Read (4/10 Carnegie Report) (6 hours)
  • Before and During Reading Response Strategies Across the Curriculum
  • After-Reading Response Strategies Across the Curriculum
• Using Accessible Text Resources and The “How-To” of Book/Text/Article Clubs (3 hours)
• Implementing Reading Workshop in ELA & Across the Curriculum (3 hours)
• Teaching Effective Vocabulary Strategies (3 hours)

Teaching K-12 Literacy Strategies Across the Curriculum

• Collaborative Learning to Motivate Reluctant Readers & Writers while Building Classroom Community & Peer Respect (3 hours)