Established in 1978, UCI Writing Project is the 13th site of the California Writing Project and the oldest of the Subject Matter Projects on the University of California - Irvine Campus. We're located in UCI's Graduate School of Education.

​We are one of 200 sites of the National Writing Project.

The UCI Writing Project has trained 800 teachers/consultants from 85 local school districts and twelve colleges and universities. Additionally, the project has trained 675 teachers in its open program on Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking, and 600 teachers in the Governor's Professional Development Institutes. The project has reached over 20,000 teachers via conferences and inservice programs. It was the first California Writing Project site to create a summer youth program, which has grown from 35 students and 2 teachers in 1984 to more than 2500 students and 200 teachers in 2013.

2018 - 2019 Research-Based Strategies Workshop Series

November 7, 2018:
Ron Ritchhart
​Creating Cultures of Thinking

January 23, 2019:
Jeff Zwiers
Communicating to Learn: Practices and Activities for Developing Academic Speaking, Listening, and Conversation Skills Across Disciplines (K-12)
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March 21, 2019:
Aida Walqui & George C. Bunch
​Amplifying the Curriculum: Designing Quality Learning Opportunities for English Learners

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UCI Writing Project Summer Youth Program

Information for our 2019 Summer Youth Program will be released in March!

Note from the Director:

Carol Booth Olson, Professor, Director of UCI Writing Project.

 Established in 1984, the UCI Summer Youth programs offers workshops to over 2500 students, pre-K through grade 12. In these workshops, Teacher/Consultants trained in Writing Project strategies focus on helping students enhance the reading and writing abilities identified in the California Common Core State Standards.
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​Our workshops offer a unique opportunity for students to develop their talent as writers as they experience a step-by-step approach to writing. Special attention is given to the domains of writing assessed on the STAR Direct Writing Assessment and the California High School Exit Exam: summary, narration, response to literature, and persuasion. Recognizing that affective motivation to learn is key to academic growth, our goal is to make the Young Writers' Project challenging and informative but also engaging and fun.

Featured in UCI News: On the right path

Carol Booth Olson, Professor of Education, Director of the UCI Writing Project and creator of the Pathway Project. Steve Zylius / UCI

Professor of Education and Director of the UCI Writing Project, Carol Booth Olson speaks of her Pathway Project, established in 1996, which fosters academic literacy of English learners in middle and high schools.

If I can feel like I've moved the needle, if I can feel like I'm reaching out to these teachers and they, in turn, can get these kids into college, into good-paying jobs in the workforce, that's its own reward

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