GKCWP Professional Development

The GKCWP offers a wide range of professional development opportunities for schools, districts and administrators. Inservices are designed to help educators improve writing and the teaching of writing and literacy and to strengthen teacher leadership in order to affect exemplary classroom practices. All inservices are designed in collaboration with school leadership teams or administrative offices and align with national, state and local initiatives to support student achievement across the content areas.

All GKCWP inservices and courses are led by Kansas City area school teachers. This means that all of our work is done with KS and MO standards, benchmarks, and new curriculum frameworks in mind. Our professional development designs are flexible so that we may co-design a program that best suits your school or district improvement plan.

Teachers are the best teachers of teachers

Writing and literacy are central to learning across content areas

Professional Development is an on-going process across the life span

All teachers should have access to quality professional development

Successful teachers of writing are writers themselves

Universities and schools can build powerful, lasting partnerships

Classroom teachers and other educators are critical to meaningful change