The Los Angeles Writing Project at  Cal State LA is affiliated with the National Writing Project and the California Writing Project and is housed in the Charter College of Education at Cal State LA. The Directors are Dr. Robert Land and Dr. Carolyn Frank . We have been operating since 1999 and now have 120 Teacher Consultants in our project.

   Our Writing Project has four major goals. The first is to improve student writing and learning in K-College  classrooms in our urban region. The second is to extend the uses of writing in other disciplines aside from English/Language Arts including mathematics, science, the social sciences, and the arts. Our third goal is to continue providing an effective professional development model, that of teachers teaching other teachers, for elementary and secondary schools in our region. Our fourth goal is to identify, celebrate, and enhance the professional role of successful classroom teachers in the Los Angeles area.

   To implement our goals, we provide an intensive 4-week Summer Institute for exemplary teachers of writing, Fall and Spring Renewals for our Fellows, Inservice Workshops to elementary and secondary schools in our region, Saturday Seminars on Writing Instruction at Cal State LA, Coaching Sessions with Writing Workshop teachers, a Young Writers' Camp for the summer, and Teacher Research Committees.

National Writing Project: Assumptions of the National Writing Project