Contact Your Representatives to Support the NWP!

If you share NWP's commitment to literacy and high-quality education for all our nation's youth, please join the effort to ensure continued direct funding for the National Writing Project. NWP is an authorized program within the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA Title II, Part C, Subpart 2). 

What You Can Do

Contact your senators and representatives in the House and ask them to support the NWP. Find contact information here.

Encourage your superintendents, principals, university presidents and other interested individuals to write letters in support of NWP to their legislators. See NWP's sample letter.

Spread the word! Contact your local press, campus publications office, or Parent Teacher Organization. Write a letter to the editor of any publication that covers education. If you maintain a blog, post on Facebook, or use Twitter, help spread the word about the impact of the states-based, competitive funding proposal on the NWP.

Sample Letter

The NWP has provided a sample letter for you to send to your legislators—and give to others who you ask to support the NWP.

Letters of support are most effective when they are personalized, so please customize the sample letter with information about your own experience with NWP, why you think NWP is valuable, and how you’ve seen NWP make an impact on teachers on a local, state, or national level.

Talking Points

Help spread the message of why NWP works:

1. Direct federal funding ensures that teachers and students everywhere benefit from NWP programs and resources.
2. NWP provides high-quality professional development that helps teachers make sure their students are prepared for college and career-ready.
3. NWP is the only national professional development network focused on the teaching of writing across all grades and subject areas.
4. Writing is essential to college- and career-readiness. Writing helps us convey ideas, solve problems, and understand concepts. Eighty percent of Americans believe that writing well is more important now than it was 20 years ago.*

For more, see NWP's Fast Facts.

Advocacy Tips

Follow the links below for more general tips about writing letters and making appointments with your legislators, and to read letters that other friends of NWP have written.

• Tips for Writing to Your Legislators
• Tips for Making Appointments
• See what others are saying about the proposed change in NWP funding