Updates from Mission Pie
The Organic Word: San Francisco Students and Teachers Writing Together
A Literary Reading at Mission Pie
Join elementary students and teachers from 826 Valencia Street’s writing program for the next reading in a series: The Organic Word: Students and Teachers Writing Together to be held at the Mission Pie Café at 2901 Mission Street at 25th Street in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 18th from 5:00-7:00. This month’s reading will feature elementary school students and teachers reading ghost stories that they wrote in conjunction with 826 Valencia Street.
Every third Wednesday, San Francisco students and teachers will present original writing from their classrooms. Co-sponsored by the Bay Area Writing Project and SFUSD Office of Learning Support and Equity’s Humanities team, The Organic Word showcases the writing carried out in San Francisco classrooms.
The Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) is an organization of teachers who have been working to improve student achievement by improving the way in which writing is taught for more than 30 years. Located at the University of California at Berkeley, BAWP is the founding site of the nearly 200 Writing Projects located across the United States. A founding belief of the writing project is that effective writing teachers also write themselves. For more information about the Bay Area Writing Project, call Carol Tateishi, Director, at 510-642-0971 or go to: www.bayareawritingproject.org.
If you would like more information about The Organic Word, please contact Marty Williams at 415-355-7601 or e-mail her at williamsm2@sfusd.edu.