About Us
Looking Both Ways (LBW) is a professional development project sponsored by CUNY's Office of Academic Affairs in cooperation with the New York City Board of Education. It was initiated in the fall of 1998 as a joint project of the Office of Academic Affairs, the New York City Writing Project (NYCWP) of the Institute for Literacy Studies at Lehman College, and the CUNY Association of Writing Supervisors (CAWS). Although CAWS, as an organization, is no longer directly involved in LBW, the NYCWP remains actively involved. This has allowed LBW to draw upon the extensive human and institutional resources that the NYCWP has developed since it began working in the City's public schools in 1978. LBW represents a continuation, a deepening and an expansion of many years of important work done at the University and in the schools.
LBW brings teachers from New York City public high schools and from colleges in the City University of New York (CUNY) together to focus on literacy development and inquiry-based learning. Participants discuss their teaching experiences, the tensions surrounding writing instruction, and their classroom practices.
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