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Literacy - Focused Family Engagement Programs
Achieving Literacy Goals Together
The EdVenture Group is committed to listening to literacy needs in each community and designing literacy-focused family engagement programs to bring family-facing professionals, students, and educators together through literacy to improve student achievement. EdV has developed programs including Level-Up: Achieving Literacy Goals at Home, Pathways to Literacy, and quality professional development for schools.
The Central West Virginia Writing Project
The EdVenture Group is excited to announce a new partnership with The Central West Virginia Writing Project (CWVWP) this year. As part of her role as an EdV Program Manager, Donna Atwood, will serve as the co-Director of the CWVWP. Donna brings her background and passion for literacy to this role and looks forward to supporting the Young Writers Day Contest and the CWVWP Writing Conference.
“I am excited to enter this new role with the CWVWP and look forward to seeing how the CWVWP and EdV can support West Virginia educators, students, and families in their writing efforts.” -Donna Atwood.
CWVWP is a site of the National Writing Project (NWP), the largest and longest-running professional development initiative for teachers in the United States. The CWVWP follows the NWP model of ‘teachers-teaching-teachers.’ The West Virginia National Writing Project site has been supported by Marshall University, South Charleston Campus, since 1978. The site has delivered professional development in teaching writing across the curriculum to hundreds of K-adult teachers through partnerships with county school districts and individual schools.
