Vermont Writing Collaborative Inc.

“Expenses website design 1,010 other miscellaneous 3 office supplies 102 software 1,082 travel reimbursement 453 sales taxes paid 16 consulting 3,015 lake morey institue 253 insurance expense 350 total 6,284”

“The vermont writing collaborative was founded in 2007 by five vermont public school teachers. At that time, the five had been working, individually and collectively and at all grade levels, with an approach to writing instruction we were developing. We call this approach writing for understanding, and it is premised on the idea that writing is all about meaning. If students are to write effectively, it is clear that 1) they need to have solid understanding of the ideas about which they are writing, 2) they need to have a clear structure to build that understanding so that orthers can follow their thinking. In writing for understanding, teachers "plan backward", with an outcome clearly in mind so that they are able to build in successful opportunities to learn for students - and then to show that understanding in effective writing.”

“Vermont writing collaborative - non-profit narrative 2022 again this year, we were unable to offer the in-person conference due to the pandemic. Most of our work involved writing a teachers guide for our new handbook for writing for understanding instruction, k-12, entitled making it work. We have completed the project and it is now printed and ready to be used. It will be available to people for free of charge from our website, including scoring checklists and new benchmarks, and comprehensive writing rubrics. Our newsletter now reaches over 2,000 people. Financial statement at the end of 2022, the vermont writing collaborative had 19,987.91. The income we generated was from selling books (writing for understanding) via amazon and our website. Our single greatest expense was copyediting the teachers guide for the new handbook.”