The Power of Writing to Deepen Reading
Elevate your leadership at the invitation-only event, which features a full day of exceptional programming, including inspiring talks, networking, and resources to boost student achievement and teacher effectiveness. Summit programming is suitable for K-12 and higher educational leaders across Virginia.
October 23th 2025
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Shenandoah University
Lunch included
Agenda
Welcome
Keynote Speaker
Expert Panel Discussion
Networking Break
Roundtable Discussion
Report Outs
Featured Speaker
Close
Opportunities
Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination and every moment is an opportunity to make your mark.
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2025 Summer Course on Effective Practices in Teaching and Using the Writing Process
Shenandoah Valley Writing Project presents the Writing Without Fear Summer 2025 online asynchronous one-graduate-credit course open to all. The choice of credit is EDU or WR 695: Special Topics. The course starts June 1 through July 12 and costs only $250. Space is limited to 20 seats. OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO LITERACY COACHES
Our Writing Expert Teacher Consultants Share Their Thoughts
Ever wonder how expert teachers feel about writing in the world of academia? What are their hopes and dreams for student writers? What is a new or effective technique to engage students in writing? In these posts, you will be introduced to the wonderful world of writing through the lived experiences of our Teacher Consultants.
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Technology is neither good nor bad, Nor is it Neutral
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools Proliferate In Classrooms Among the many AI tools gaining popularity are those that help with routine tasks, translations, grammar checks, adding citations, and aiding non-native English speakers with syntax and readability. Before this year, AI use in a typical classroom was a slow creep, but now that the governance of the
SVWP Teacher Consultants By Year
SVWP Teacher Consultants 2023
Director: Leslie Shea Perry, SVWP Co-Director
Staff: Anne “Penny” Hagerty
Angelica Anderson, South County High School
Sharon Fitzgerald, Osbourne High School
Sandra Himmelright, Northwestern Detention Center
Janet Maxwell, Brookville High School
Dan Sirignano, Fauquier High School
Jessica Wheeler, Liberty High School
SVWP Teacher Consultants 2022
SVWP Teacher Consultants 2019-2020
Congratulations to the most recent Teacher Consultants of the SVWP
from the 2019-20 Year-Round Institute
Congratulations to the SVWP’s latest TCs!
They weathered a whole year, ending with flying colors in the middle of a pandemic. Cheers!
Left to right beginning at the top with staff in parentheses: Ashlee Himes, Central High School; (Mary Tedrow, Beth Buerkel); Katy Greiner, Rock Ridge High School; Todd Wargo, Central High School; Amanda Burton, Daniel Morgan Intermediate School; Jennifer DiMarco, Garland R. Quarles Elementary; Sonja Sneddon, Bass Hoover Elementary; Maureen Mahoney, John F. Kennedy Middle School; Sarah Moehl, M.M. Pierce Elementary; Paul Anderson, Warren County High School; (Star Friend), Allison Beck-Watson, Floyd T. Binns Middle School; Aaron Cosner, Harrisonburg High School.
SVWP Teacher Consultants 2018-2019
Kristen Bredice, Harmony Middle School
Samuel McClain, Rock Ridge High School
Kimberly Peterson, Winchester Public Schools
Richelle Riley, James G. Brumfield Elementary
Ashley Scott, Garland R. Quarles Elementary
Sara Dashner, Frederick Douglass Elementary
Jordan Vachon, Garland R. Quarles Elementary
Lisa Williamson, Garland R. Quarles Elementary
Tessie Mogule, Garland R. Quarles Elementary
SVWP Teacher Consultants 2018 Summer Institute
SVWP Teacher Consultants 2017-2018
SVWP Teacher Consultants 2017
SVWP Teacher Consultants Inaugural Year-Round Institute 2017-2018
SVWP Teacher Consultants 2016
Inaugural 2015 Teacher Consultants for the Shenandoah Valley Writing Project
2014 Invitational Summer Institute
Held at John Handley High School
Directors: Susan McGilvray and Laura Tucker:
Rhonda Alley, Douglass School, Leesburg, VA
Julie Cacciola, Douglass School, Leesburg, VA
Julie Constantino, Virginia Avenue Charlotte DeHart Elementary, Winchester, VA
Meghann Donohue, Harmony Middle School, Hamilton, VA
Jennifer Warner Howells, Skyline High School, Front Royal, VA
Nicole Kaylan, Dominion High School, Sterling, VA
Mallory Skarupa, Central High School, Woodstock, VA
Margaret Stokes, Belmont Ridge Middle School, Leesburg, VA
Amy Thomas, Frederick Douglass Elementary, Winchester, VA
shenandoahwritingproject.org 
As English Department Chair at Loudoun Valley High School, I wish to register four of my staff members for the Fall Learn to Write Conference, Sept. 23, 2017. I cannot, however, locate a link to registration. Also, one of the participants is Shea Finny, who served as one of your summer teachers; will she be required to pay tuition? Please contact me so that I may proceed. Thank you!
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Hello Marcia,
We do not yet have a link active for registration. We simply hoped to advertise the date while we waited for confirmation of our Keynote speaker. We should have a link active in the next two weeks and that information will be forthcoming (where and how to register).
Shea will be attending independently because the teachers she has coached will be presenting. So plan on registering the three teachers rather than four when we have our registration page up. Thank you so much for your query.
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Thank you so much! Looking forward to it!
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Marcia,
Just wanted to let you know that registration has now gone live for our fall conference featuring Jeff Anderson. You can access the online registration form through our website or simply follow this link: http://connect.su.edu/SVWP2017
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