The Rocky Mountain Writing Center Secondary Education Directory was compiled to help local, regional (RMWCA), and (inter)national (IWCA) organizations and institutions identify secondary schools in the Rocky Mountain Writing Center Region (AZ, CO, MO, NV, NM, UT, WY) as a precursor to connecting, collaborating, and/or supporting fellow educators in the fields of writing and peer tutoring. While the directory was originally to house all middle, junior high, and high schools, the scope was later narrowed to cover the 1,313 high schools in this eight-state region. (Article by Lisa Bell who compiled this directory is in Vol. 37.9-10 of the Writing Lab Newsletter, in open access archives: <
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"Using Regionally Oriented Materials in a Writing Center" (on dialect); "A Five-Minute Diagnostic for Writing Labs" (predicting student performance via error-finding exercise); reports from labs; "Handbook for Tutors" (description of an in-house training manual)
Rocky Mountains Writing Centers Association, home page. Has directories of high school and higher education writing centers, the RMWCA governance documents, and multiple newsletters, plus a listserv.
The SWCA website offers information about SWCA's mission statement, conferences, institutional members, calendar of events, board, past conferences, president's blog, awards, scholarships, journal, wc resources, news, jobs, cfp's, and elections.