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$200 Mini-Grants
The ASWC Interior Satellite is offering $200 mini-grants to FNSBSD and YKSD teachers and UAF interns. Read more...
Poetry Out Loud
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation present Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Read more...
Teacher of the Year
Jenna Counts is the BSSD Teacher of the Year. Read more...
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The Alaska State Writing Consortium began as a group of enthusiastic teachers and administrators who prompted their school districts to embark upon a cooperative effort to improve the teaching of writing in schools throughout Alaska.
Out of those beginnings grew the Alaska State Writing Consortium, a dynamic, ongoing effort providing Alaskan educators with an essential resource for professional development, teacher leadership, and classroom research, focused upon the teaching of writing and increasing student achievement. Read more...
ASWC Mission
Today the mission of ASWC remains the same: to provide professional development for teachers to improve student writing.
ASWC Goals
Our goals have been and continue to be the following:
- To promote the writing workshop approach to teaching writing.
- To help teachers prepare their students for the Alaska High School Qualifying Exam and the Standards-Based Assessments.
- To provide teacher training for Writing Across the Curriculum.
- To integrate the Writing Process and the Six Traits of Writing K-12 in all subject areas.
- To assist teachers in understanding and applying the Alaska Grade Level Expectations (GLE’s).
- To offer training in developing writing workshops at both the primary and secondary levels.