Andover Bread Loaf Writing Leaders
For 27 years this nonprofit writers program through Middlebury College and Phillips Academy, in Andover, MA has not only been teaching writing skills but changing lives of the children of Lawrence, MA - a former mill town. The program not only leads to children gaining the skills and confidence to pursue college but has resulted in inspiring many to become community leaders. andover.edu Workshops are entirely student led and the "writing leaders" are children that have gone through the program themselves, and the same ages as those they mentor. "Writing leaders" receive mentoring and training from public school teachers. More than 600 children have participated in the program and most have gone on to complete college. Quite an accomplishment, according to Edwin Santana, who became an instructor in 2004, in a community where almost half the students drop out of high school. The Writing Leaders program is only one facet of Andover Bread Loaf - a nonpro