Writing Skills Development Program

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UNC Horizons program graduate and mother Andrea McSwain snuggles with son Cassidy at his child care center during afternoon pick up.

The UNC Health Foundation has provided a generous gift to the Preschool Writing Project in order to supply Head Start partners in Durham and Orange Counties with a tablet and internet hot spot in order to facilitate online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Second grader Madison Kelly begins her studies at Union Independent School in Durham, N.C.

The UNC Preschool Writing Project team has created at-home learning packets for more than 200 families to be distributed through local Head Start programs in order to support families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has awarded Lara Costa, the project director for the Writing Skills Development Program, $1.4 million over three years for an initiative spearheaded by the UNC School of Medicine Department of Allied Health Sciences. Stephen Hooper is the co-principal investigator for this new project and principal investigator of the Preschool …

UNC Writing Skills Development Program

In the News

Hooper and Costa Receive $4.5M Grant for Systematic Replication from the Institute for Educational Science

UNC Health Foundation Supports Preschool Writing Project in Durham and Orange Counties

UNC Preschool Writing Project to Distribute At-Home Literacy Learning Packets to North Carolina Head Start Families

Costa Receives $1.4 Million Grant for Early Literacy Research from Institute of Education Sciences