Office of Outreach & Engagement

Community Partner(s): UConn Writing Center, Connecticut Writing Project, and dozens of CT middle and high schools (see map at https://writingcenter.uconn.edu/high-school-outreach/)

Demographics: Connecticut middle and high school teachers and students (mostly public schools, mostly within a 30 mile radius of Storrs)

School or College: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Campus Affiliation: UConn Storrs

Avon, Bloomfield, Bolton, Ellington, Fairfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Griswold, Hartford, Manchester, Mansfield, Newtown, Plainville, Pomfret, Simsbury, South Windsor, Suffield, Willington, Windham, Woodstock

Program Description

UConn’s Writing Center community outreach work was initiated, appropriately enough, by an undergraduate tutor who wanted to bring one-on-one tutoring in academic and creative writing to her own former high school, Hartford Public.   To learn more about that experience, please see this article in Reflections: https://reflectionsjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Re-assessing-Sustainability.pdf.pdf 

Starting in 2007, the UConn Writing Center shifted their emphasis from having UConn students deliver tutoring to HPHS to working with schools to assist them in founding their own faculty-led but peer-driven writing centers. At that time the Connecticut Writing Project (CWP) http://www.cwp.uconn.edu/ became a partner in the project. 

As part of the partnership program, the UConn Writing Center is currently working with Ellington High School to open their writing center. 

School Partners:  

• Windham High School 
• Ashford School 
• Griswold 
• E.O. Smith High School, Storrs, CT. 
• East Hartford High School 
• Bolton High School 
• Public Safety Academy, Enfield, CT 
• Manchester High School 
• Woodstock Academy 
• Two Rivers Magnet Middle School (East Hartford) 
• Rockville High School 
• Sports and Medical Sciences Academy (Hartford) 
• Mansfield Middle School 

 

Connecticut teachers gather at the Secondary School Writing Centers Conference hosted by UConn each October to talk about planning and implementing peer tutoring. The UConn Writing Center invites any school that wishes to visit our campus Writing Center. “See our space, observe a session, and speak with our tutors!”