The mission of the Oregon Writing Project at Eastern (OWP) is to work with K-12 and college teachers in eastern and central Oregon. Since 1991, OWP has brought in over $280,000 from the National Writing Project for teacher staff development.  Over 150 teachers have attended OWP’s Summer Writing Institutes, with several hundred involved in continuity programs.  In addition, over 1000 eastern Oregon teachers participated in informal and formal inservice programs.  In the past ten years, over 1,600 students have attended the annual Student Writers Workshop in the spring, many of them setting foot on a college campus for the first time, coming from regional schools located anywhere from the Columbia River to Idaho and from Enterprise to Monument and all points between. Each year OWP manages over 6,000 contact hours with area teachers, students, and community members.

• The Reading/Writing Connection 
• Oregon’s Reading and Writing Standards 
• Teaching Evaluative and Inferential Reading Skills 
• Establishing Effective Reading/Writing Workshops
• Employing Technology to Enhance Reading and Writing
• Successful Strategies for Writing and Reading across the Curriculum
• Building a Multi-Genre/Multimedia, Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Outcomes Alignment across Grades and District-Wide