Registration and Discounts
How to Register
Option 1: Register online with a credit card (link with class description).
- Download the paper registration form: 2025 BAWP Summer Open Program Registration Form and submit to bawp@berkeley.edu (please do not submit via US mail)
- Groups of 3 or more teachers from one school get a 20% discount! If paying online, discount will be automatically applied. If registering and paying with a school PO, apply discount to total.
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BAWP Summer Programs for Educators are designed for teachers across experience, grade level, and discipline. Courses are facilitated by experienced BAWP teacher leaders, who draw upon their own classroom practice and expertise in the teaching of writing. True to the Writing Project approach, participants are guided through writing experiences and collegial discussions that highlight instructional strategies and examine student writing. By engaging in their own writing, teachers consider what these experiences might mean for their classroom contexts.
BAWP courses support teachers to support their student writers -- increasing enthusiasm for writing, expanding the uses of writing in service of student learning, and building skills. Register today to deepen professional community, strengthen writing instruction, and get inspired!
Raise Your Voice Summer Writers Lab
June 9-13, 2025
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location: Berkeley Way West, Room 1216, UC Berkeley
Registration Fees: $300.00
1 CEU available (additional fee, forms provided on the first day)
Raise Your Voice Summer Writers Lab is a week-long intensive designed to encourage educators to lean into the power of our intersectional identities and artistic expression. Participants will have the opportunity to bridge their experiences as educators AND writers. We will explore embodiment as a tool for dynamic pedagogy. This intensive explores connection,healing, and empowerment through creative writing.
Alie Jones is a writer, artist, and Creole mermaid. She is a lecturer at CSU Monterey Bay in Composition, Creative Writing & Social Action, and Service Learning. The author of Saltwater Moonshine, a poetry collection that honors her matrilineal Creole heritage through poetry, music, and reflections of love. Alie is passionate about centering our breath work as sacred and hopes to build a legacy of awareness and expression. She is the Director and Co-founder of Black Freighter Press, a revolutionary press committed to the exploration of liberation. Alie graduated with a BA in Cinematic Arts & Technology from CSU Monterey Bay & a minor in Creative Writing & Social Action. She received her MPA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies as well as a MFA from Mills College in Creative Writing. Alie is the host of the podcast called Chit Chat with Aliecat, exploring self-care practices & journeys of self-love.
Teaching Writing in the Secondary Classroom
June 16-20, 2025 (Note: June 19 is a holiday.)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Berkeley Way West, Room 1216, UC Berkeley
6th - 12th Grade Teachers
Registration Fees: $300.00
1 CEU available (additional fee, forms provided on the first day)
If you are seeking an opportunity to re-energize your secondary Language Arts classroom, particularly in the area of writing instruction, this course is for you! This four-day class on the UC Berkeley campus recognizes the inherent challenges of teaching both struggling and advanced writers, often in the same classroom, as well as how AI is changing the face of writing instruction, posing new questions to educators. Through interactive, hands-on teacher demonstrations, you will experience classroom-tested and research-based approaches to the teaching of writing. You will have a chance to write and share writing in small groups, and this course also provides time and support to generate lessons based on district and/or site-approved curriculum and texts.
M. Clare LePell taught high school English for 37 years in Castro Valley before retiring in June of 2023. She has been a BAWP Teacher Consultant since 1993. Ms. LePell has been a frequent workshop leader across the Bay Area, and has taught BAWP's secondary writing course for multiple summers. She is currently wrapping up a year-long BAWP collaborative genre studies course and helps lead the Professional Collaborators’ Network, a group of educators who help teacher consultants fine-tune their workshops.