Advocating, Building, and Collaborating: A Resource Toolkit to Sustain Secondary School Writing Centers (SSWCA Toolkit)

It is the goal of the Secondary School Writing Centers Association (SSWCA) to help inspire and support new and continuing secondary school writing center directors (SSWC) directors in establishing and sustaining successful writing centers. To that end, there are over 100 resources in Advocating, Building, and Collaborating: A Resource Toolkit to Sustain Secondary School Writing Centers to help you create a space focused on cultivating a peer-centered model of tutoring. The topics in this publication include proposing a new center, recruiting and training students to be peer tutors, promoting the center, and collecting data about the center. This edition also features sections on school-wide writing initiatives, middle school centers, university partnerships, and all-subject centers. Maybe you are already the director of a SSWC and you’re looking for fresh perspectives, or maybe you are cracking open this toolkit as a first step to laying the groundwork of the SSWC you’re just starting to develop. Either way, the advice, strategies, models, and templates in this resource toolkit will inspire your next steps.