The Writers’ Room™: The Story of a Writing Center

By Ellen D. Kolba and Sheila C. Crowell

Reprinted from The English Journal, October 1996

Five years ago we were a pair of parent volunteers, working one period a week in one English class at our local high school. We were there because, as writers of educational materials, we needed to keep ourselves honest – and because an innovative, imaginative department chair, Bernadette Anand, had responded to our request with an invitation that would help meet both our needs and hers. And now we were all hooked…