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Gate City Writes
We Write. We Teach. We Learn.

Mission

Gate City Writes (GCW) facilitates opportunities for teachers to write and teach writing alongside K-12 students in the form of professional development. In addition, GCW supports young writers (grades K-12) as they draft and publish a text using digital media during a summer camp. The goal of this group is to connect research in writing education to classroom practice by engaging K-12 educators and students with university faculty in a collaborative writing community.

Vision
  • Gate City Writes believes in opening opportunities for experiential learning related to writing and teaching writing.
    • ​In a podcast about creativity, the poet Mark Nepo says that many writers get so hung up on preparing to "be" a writer that they forget to write. To elaborate, he says, "We [children] are being told to become a noun, and the vitality of life is in staying a verb." Thus, participants in Gate City Writes focus on the action of writing and teaching writing, rather than on the preparation of those actions. We draw from educator John Dewey, known for his work in experiential learning, who argued for learning through experience and "reflection on doing" to drive Gate City Writes. 
  • Gate City Writes believes in exploring how digital and social media can be used as a tool for writing and teaching writing.
    • ​Like educators involved in the Connected Learning Movement, we believe it is important to tap "the tools of the time" in order to improve learning and instruction. Specifically, we think about how students and teachers can compose and publish various forms of texts for success in the future and how teachers can facilitate that process in the classroom.
  • Gate City Writes believes in fostering the creative entitlement of K-12 students and educators.
    • By creative entitlement we draw from the author Elizabeth Gilbert and poet David Whyte to mean taking creative risks that push people "out of the suffocating insulation of personal safety, and into the frontiers of the beautiful and the unexpected." To take such risks, students and teachers must believe they "have a voice and vision of [their] own" for their writing and teaching.

Impact

This work makes an impact by creating a structured space for pre-service and in-service teachers to learn and enact necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to the teaching writing with their school communities. In addition, research done with the young writers and teachers enhances understandings about how to better foster successful writing practices in the 21 st century. Thus, the practice and research mentioned contributes to the vibrancy of the local educational and writing community.
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  • The Camp
    • Gate City Writes
    • Registration and Payment
    • Writing and Robotics
    • Scholarship Information
    • Advanced Courses
    • Community Voices Workshop
    • Cancellation Policy
    • Parent Orientation
    • Why choose this camp?
    • Invited Authors Summer 2019
  • Publications
    • Publications 2020
    • Publications 2019 >
      • Community Voices Middle Grades
      • Community Voices High School
      • K-2nd Grade Publications
      • 3rd Grade Publications
      • 4th grade publications
      • 5th and 6th grade publications
      • 7th & 8th Grade Publications
      • High School Publications
      • Spoken Word
      • Fiction Middle Grades
      • Fiction High School
      • Creative Nonfiction
      • Podcasting
    • Publications 2018 >
      • High School Publications
      • 7th & 8th Grade Publications
      • 6th Grade Publications
      • 4th and 5th Grade Publications
      • 3rd Grade Publications
      • K-2nd Grade Publications
      • Spoken Word
      • Fiction
      • Podcasting
      • Community Voices Teens
      • Community Voices Adults
    • Publications 2017 >
      • High School Authors
      • 7 & 8th Grade Authors
      • 6th Grade Authors
      • 4th and 5th Grade Authors
      • 3rd and 4th Grade Authors
    • Publications 2016 >
      • Third and Fourth Grade Authors
      • Fifth Grade Publications
      • Middle Grades Authors
      • High School Authors
    • Publications 2015 >
      • High School Authors
      • 7th and 8th Grade Authors
      • 5th and 6th Grade Authors
      • 3rd and 4th Grade Authors
    • Publications 2014 >
      • Elementary School Authors
      • Middle Grades Authors
      • High School Authors
    • Publications 2013 >
      • Elementary School Authors
      • Middle School Authors
      • High School Authors
    • Young Writers' Publications 2012 >
      • High School Authors (Creative)
      • High School Authors (Informational)
      • Middle School Authors (Creative)
      • Middle School Authors (Informational)
      • Elementary School Authors (Creative)
      • Elementary School Authors (Informational)
  • Photos 2019
    • Photos 2012
    • Photos 2013
    • Photos 2014
    • Photos 2015
    • Photos 2016
    • Photos 2017
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  • Online Instruction
  • Contact Us
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