Celebrate 30 Years of WMWP!
April 24, 2023
Celebrate the past 30 years of WMWP and look forward to the next! Join us for refreshments, WMWP artifacts, cocktails, slideshows, and more. The celebration will be held at University Hall at...
Certificate Update and Offerings for 2023-2024
April 24, 2023
If you are continuing a certificate at UMass, you should plan to complete it by Spring 2024 by taking either a UMass course or transferring one class from those offered at Westfield. If you are...
Darnell Thigpen Williams at Best Practices 2021
November 03, 2021
Darnell Thigpen Williams is the Associate Director of Professional Development at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services and the Collaborative for Educational Services. Darnell has worked...
Designing a Joyful Anti-Racist Writing and Literature Curriculum
Online via Zoom
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
“I just love the Writing Project because I can get all of these ideas that I can bring into my classroom the next day. Even just being part of the Summer Institute, I’ve already used so many things from the summer in my classroom. It’s made such a huge difference. I don’t know, I just love the Writing Project.”
- Anthony Marando, Best Practices 2018
“[WMWP is] my professional home, which, as a teacher, is the place I always go to for resources, for ideas, for encouragement. And I really think it is a big part of why I’ve stayed in teaching; this is my twenty fourth year.”
- Alicia Lopez, Pat Hunter Award 2018
“I have never felt alone with the Western Mass. Writing Project. I love the fact that at the Western Mass. Writing Project we work together as teachers, as writers, as learners, and, because of that, it made me better.”
- Karen Diaz, Pat Hunter Award 2019
