A national organization that focuses on the development of teachers who can teach writing in any subject area and at any grade level. Practice is essential.
Mistakes are inevitable and evidence learning is in progress.
Writers must begin with what they know and care about. More formal and public modes may be developed out of this expressive base. Writers need real audiences and genuine purposes. Writing is communication, not drill. Writing is a process, a variable series of steps or stages which move from conception to planning to drafting to revision.