The Southern Nevada Writing Project exists to empower teachers and their students by offering quality professional development to enhance teacher expertise and leadership. The SNWP is a vehicle for teachers, students and parents to develop, extend and enjoy the craft of their writing.

SNWP strives to reach these goals:

• To promote excitement among teachers about writing.
• To help teachers find or rediscover their voices as writers.
• To continuously support writing communities with teachers teaching teachers.
• To develop techniques for using writing across the curriculum and across grade levels.
• To build upon effective classroom practices for teaching writing.
• To promote an understanding of the connections between current practice and theory related to reading, writing and other language processes.
• To support teachers as researchers in their own classrooms.
• To recognize and validate teachers as the major resource from which all learning flows.