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Led by Lucy Calkins, its founding director, the TCRWP has worked with thousands of schools to provide all children with a rigorous and joyful literacy education for over three decades. Through research, curriculum development and by working shoulder to shoulder with principals, teachers, students and leaders of literacy, the Project provides state-of-the-art professional development. For further information about how you can become a Project school, contact us…

Results

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Has Rewards Schools Across New York State...Read More...

TCRWP School Wins Multiple Morgan Book Project Awards...Read More...

Case Studies
  • Burnet Hill Elementary School - Livingston, New Jersey
    In 2010, Lisa Capone-Steiger was a new principal looking to increase the student achievement at Burnet Hill Elementary School in Livingston, New Jersey. The faculty was concerned that students weren’t reading enough and that they were not showing enough stamina on state tests. Lisa and her staff turned to the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project for support in raising student performance and strengthening the culture of reading. Read More..

Success Stories
  • TCRWP School Named New Jersey Reward School
    Collins Elementary School has recently been named a Reward School by the N.J. Department of Education. Collins was one of only 57 New Jersey schools... Read More...

  • Columbia University-Developed Teaching Method Part of Literacy Program to Bridge Gaps Between Immigrants and Israelis.
    Petach Tikva, Israel — When you enter the Netzach Yisrael elementary school in this working-class town in the center of the country, the first thing you notice is the quiet. In contrast to the vast majority of notoriously rowdy Israeli schools, there are no noisy students aimlessly roaming the halls of Netzach Yisrael during class time. Walk into any classroom and the children are focused, not fidgety. Read More...

  • Riverton Elementary School’s skyrocketing test scores
    First of all, a big, serious “congrats” to the Riverton Elementary School community — administrators, teachers, parents, support staff and students — for a Cinderella-like one-year turnaround on the school’s test scores. The school’s bump in New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) numbers from 2010 to 2011 is downright startling. Read More..

  • Logan County Schools Release 2012 Westest 2 Results
    One school, in particular, South Man Elementary, in Reading/Language Arts, went from the lowest score in the county in 2011 to the 2nd highest in 2012... Principal Danita Noel attributes the increase to the Title I teacher and Interventionists working collaboratively with the classroom teacher and a new supplemental reading program, Units of Study by Lucy Calkins from Columbia University...Read more…

  • Glen Cove City School District Against All Odds
    Academic excellence against all odds—“A rising tide lifts all boats.” We are a district serving a diverse population with 50% of our population living in poverty (qualify for free or reduced lunch). In 2010 Landing Elementary School was named National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Read more…

  • This Year, Just Call It The Little School That Could
    For failing to meet performance standards, the Clara T. O'Connell elementary school in Bristol, Conn., spent three years on the ''in need of improvement'' list under the federal No Child Left Behind program. When a new list came out last month, Connecticut had 290 elementary and middle schools on it, but the O'Connell School was not among them. It had achieved what no other school in the state had managed under the four-year-old program: It had worked itself off the list. Read more…
Testimonials
Read about the Project’s successes in the words of school leaders.

  • Houston County Schools of Georgia
    “Our work with Teachers College has produced teacher leaders”—Nancy Richardson, Houston County Schools of Georgia.


    Over the past eight years, Houston County Schools have been on a learning journey with Teachers College, working with staff developers at particular schools and providing Home Grown opportunities during the summers. Read More...



  • Springs UFSD, NY
    “It has been our privilege to partner with an organization that shares our vision and sees the inherent value of [The Common Core State Standards] as a driving force for school change.” --Eric M. Casale, Katherine Byrnes, Ryan Scala, & Tracey Frazier, Springs UFSD, NY


    2012-13 is our first “official” year working with the project. However, teachers throughout our school have been working for a long time, along with the leadership team, to bring this work schoolwide, and establish shared practices through collaboration. These past few months have been incredible. Read More...