The workshops are designed to take teachers through the writing process, thereby enabling them to teach writing more effectively, and understand your work in the classroom. They are meant to enhance and inform the teaching of writing after your residency has ended. Workshops are often co-taught by a WITS writer and mentor teacher from the School Writing Project at Rice University's Center for Education. We also offer in-services each year at individual schools. For the last ten years, WITS has offered intensive workshops to children pre-K through 12th during the summer.
Workshops are team taught by teachers and writers.
In our collaboration with the School Literacy and Culture Project at Rice University's Center for Education, we expanded the program to include pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade. The workshops also include a trip to The Menil Collection. The Houston Press recently named the Summer Creative Writing Workshops Houston s Best Summer Program for Kids. The Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading Series has provided WITS students with the opportunity to meet writers of national and international reputation. In conjunction with the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, well-known writers visit WITS classrooms to read and discuss writing with much younger writers.