Writing Project Summer Invitational 2025
June 23 @ 9:00 am – July 17 @ 9:00 am
Become a member of our Writing Project Community!
JUNE 23 – JULY 17, 2025
Monday – Thursday, 9AM – 3:30PM at UCLA
Two Pre-Institute meetings, dates TBA
Refine, elevate, and celebrate how you teach writing. Join other educators in the greater Los Angeles area who put students center stage. The UCLA Writing Project invites you to apply for our Summer Invitational Institute where you’ll be immersed in the teaching of writing. You will demonstrate your own prized practices, learn from a wonderful group of colleagues, and develop your own writing craft. Issues of social justice will be both the backdrop and foreground of our endeavors. We’ll point to the intersection of race and language. We’ll cultivate a space for educational dialogue centered on anti-racism and anti-racist teaching of writing. We’ll take advantage of curated resources, spend the summer with kindred spirits who choose joy over cynicism. English, social studies, mathematics, world language teachers, and all teachers of multi-lingual learners—this Project is for all of us!
What We’ll Do During the Invitational
- Experience workshops centered on what really works in our teaching of writing.
- Write—in a variety of genres—and engage in a small writing group for attention, appreciation and suggestions for the next draft.
- Participate in a small-group Professional Literature Circle.
- Curate a collection of teaching strategies to reach ALL of our students.
- Explore what affirming our students’ gender identities means.
- Engage in critical conversations about combating anti-black racism in the classroom and in the teaching of writing.
- We’ll make lifelong professional connections.
- Learn from colleagues who teach the full span of grade levels.
UCLA Writing Project Fellowship