Ohio Writing Project
Miami University
Department of English
302 Bachelor Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-5245

Welcome to the Ohio Writing Project

The Ohio Writing Project (OWP), located in the English Department of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is one of the oldest sites of the prestigious National Writing Project (NWP).  The NWP, founded at Berkeley in 1973, is devoted to improving the teaching of writing and learning from kindergarten through college and has been named one of the most cost-efficient, effective professional development programs in the history of our country.

Founded in 1980, Miami’s Ohio Writing Project has offered workshops and inservice to over 100,000 K-12 teachers. Miami’s Master of Arts (MAT) in English, overseen and offered exclusively through the OWP, has graduated more than 150 teachers since its inception several years ago and focuses on the best of contemporary classroom practice and inquiry.  Currently celebrating its 30th year, the OWP draws teachers from all over southwest Ohio and celebrates the professionalism, expertise, and talent of our state’s educators.

OWP HISTORY

A site of the prestigious National Writing Project since 1980

A site of the Board of Regents’ Ohio WINS since 1983

In 2008, OWP served over 2000 K-12 teachers in 75 different

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SAVE THE DATE

Online Web Discussion

Teacher and OWP technology liaison Betsy Woods will lead an online discussion about why technology matters to teaching and how technology can positively affect student learning.

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Letter From OWP's Director

When I co-founded the Ohio Writing Project (OWP), a site of the National Writing Project (NWP), in 1980 with Miami

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