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How to Register
Option 1: Register online with a credit card
- Download the paper registration form: 2026 BAWP Summer Open Program Registration Form (coming soon!) 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! Email the office for discount code at bawp@berkeley.edu.
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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!
Teaching Writing in the Secondary Classroom
June 22-26, 2026
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Berkeley Way West, Room 4500, UC Berkeley
Most appropriate for 6th - 12th Grade Teachers
Registration Fees: $275.00
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. The five-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 writing instruction, posing new challenges for 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 in Castro Valley for 37 years before leaving the classroom in June of 2023. She has been a BAWP Teacher Consultant since 1993. Clare has led many workshops throughout the Bay Area, and has taught BAWP's secondary writing course for multiple summers. She helped kick off BAWP’s 2025 Saturday workshops back in September and co-led PD at Salesian College Preparatory in the fall. In addition, Clare helps facilitate the Presenter and Coaching Network, a group of educators who help BAWP Teacher Consultants fine-tune their presentations.
Navigating AI in the Writing Classroom
June 29 - July 1, 2026
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Berkeley Way West, Room TBD, UC Berkeley
Most appropriate for Secondary through College Teachers
If you’ve been wondering how to respond to generative AI in ways that deepen and do not diminish your students’ writing, this program is for you. Over three days on the UC Berkeley campus, a small cohort of teachers will look closely at how AI is changing the work of teaching writing, from drafting and feedback to assessment and conversations about authorship and voice.
Through demonstration workshops and collaborative inquiry, plus plenty of time to write, you’ll be thinking together with others about how writing instruction is shifting (or not!) in an AI-saturated world. You’ll have space to explore tools, and to share your approaches, questions, and dilemmas in a supportive community. By the end of the program, you’ll leave with practical tools, lesson ideas, and a clearer stance toward AI that centers students’ humanity and identities as writers.
Marie Tano (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at Stanford University and a RAISE Fellow/BAWP collaborator whose work sits at the intersection of sociolinguistics and computational linguistics. She studies how language encodes social meaning and how automated systems can reproduce or resist bias, with a particular focus on Black and multilingual speakers. Supported by fellowships including NSF-GRFP, DARE, RAISE, and HAI-TEP, Marie has collaborated with organizations such as Google Research and the Brookings Institution on projects aimed at making language technologies more equitable and accountable.