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Our teacher-consultants (TCs) are local educators who have participated in a rigorous summer leadership institute. Trained to provide targeted professional development about writing teaching, TCs can meet with you and your faculty, offer workshops and resources, teach demo lessons, and provide peer coaching and ongoing teacher support. To find out more about our targeted professional development offerings, please contact our Professional Development Coordinator Mari Aviles.
The Tampa Bay Area Writing Project will be hosting its Summer Leadership Institute at the University of South Florida (USF) Tampa campus in summer 2020.
“Dear Writer” will reconnect you with the outside world and reignite your love of writing.
Here's what's happening write now with the Tampa Bay Area Writing Project!
Kids get a weekly package with five letters (one to open each day!) and other materials for that week. Each letter contains instructions for the next step of a themed writing project. Imagine opening the box and wondering, “What are…
Read More Unbox your Summer Writing Experience with “Dear Writer”!
Tampa Bay Area Writing Project is happy to introduce: Professional Development Quickly An ongoing series from TBAWP TCs, offering you professional development that matters…fast. This first PDQ installment responds to requests at our Annual Conference 2019 for professional development on…
Read More PDQ: How to Make a Podcast
2020 Right to Write Conference Mark your calendars for the annual TBAWP/FCTE conference on Saturday, October 3, 2020. At this yearly one-day weekend event at the University of South Florida, local teachers share their ideas, youth writers participate in contests,…
Read More “Right to Write” Conference Oct. 3, 2020
Join us on 2/22 at Lettuce Lake Park (Shelter 11) as we bond, brainstorm and breakout about ways we can renew our reciprocal relationship between our wonderful teachers and TBAWP.
The schedule for this course is ambitious. But, if you’re familiar with NaNoWriMo, you may know that programs with a break-neck pace can lead writers to great success. Here, we’re going to do more than just write a 50k first…
Read More W.I.N.D. 2020 Sets a Grueling Schedule
W.I.N.D. (Writers In Need of Direction) is about to become a lot more than just a summer program. For the past three years, W.I.N.D. has met almost exclusively during June and July, with a few dedicated members gathering occasionally during…
Read More W.I.N.D. 2020: Write Your Book
Our final winner from the 2nd Annual TBAWP Youth Writers Conference comes from the High School Write-Ahead Poetry Contest where participants were asked to write about the topic of conformity in a poem that played with form. We called it…
Read More Pages by Madeleine James, Winner of High School Write-Ahead Poetry
For our Middle School Short Story contest, we took a little inspiration from Bon Jovi and asked writers to give us a story that included the words “You’re halfway there…” Our winning story, is far from living on a prayer.…
Read More One Bad Nightmare by Cameron Brown, Winner of Middle School Write-Ahead Short Story
Below is the winner of our Middle School Poetry Write-Ahead Contest, Nature of the Earth by Lindsay Paulson. This category asked entrants to create a Found Poem. Nature of the Earth by Lindsay Paulson One can see no thing as beautiful…
Read More Nature of the Earth By Lindsay Paulson, Winner of Middle School Write-Ahead Poetry
