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The National Writing Project, which started as the Bay Area Writing Project, has continued to affect instruction into the 21st century with its process pedagogy model. According to the 2003 figures from the National Writing Project Summer Institute, there are over 175 college based sites that serve 125,000 K-12 teachers in all 50 states (p.283). In addition, over the last 30 years, the NWP has served over 3.5 million teachers through their training programs to help and assist teachers in teaching writing. Most surveys reveal that the impact of the NWP has helped to refresh and rejuvenate teacher enthusiasm, help them, gain more respect for the new models that they are doing in the classroom, as well as develop teacher leadership both in the classroom and in the school community. Data also reveals NWP training has had significant impact on the strategies that teachers use in their classrooms, the variety of activities they choose, as well as the time they devote to writing.