Elaine White

Associate Professor of English

elaine.white@usm.edu

J. Elaine White is co-author of Making Your First Year a Success: The Secondary Teacher’s Survival Guide as well as articles dealing with effective leadership in National Writing Project sites. In addition to teaching English licensure courses on the Gulf Coast campuses, she also directs The Live Oak Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project. Part of the work with LOWP includes partnerships with schools and other educational entities in the coastal counties. Work for Live Oak Writing Project is funded through grants from the U.S. Department of Education and income from staff development programs LOWP sells to local schools. Each year LOWP provides over 20,000 hours of work with students and teachers on the Mississippi Coast.

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