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The National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW) promotes the teaching of writing through collaborative learning. Peer tutors and NCPTW professionals help students to become self-sufficient writers. NCPTW professionals are leaders in collaborative approaches, respond to the challenges of creating and operating writing centers, develop innovative peer tutoring programs, and promote the work of their peer tutors. The NCPTW offers peer tutors the opportunity to contribute in professional and scholarly ways to the larger writing center community and is dedicated to providing forums for tutors to share and present research at national and international conferences.

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Berkeley Preparatory School is celebrating its 52nd year as an independent school.  The Hoover Center for Writing has been serving the students of this school and the larger community for twenty years.  In addition to offering peer to peer tutorial services every school block of the day, The Hoover Center for Writing offers leadership opportunities for its tutors in various outreach programs including OWL, Eat And Speak, and The Academy Prep Tutorial Program.  ​

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Attendees responsible for students under eighteen years of age should be with their charges while on the Berkeley Campus.  Berkeley is a tobacco free campus and has a Zero Tolerance Policy in regards to illegal drugs, underage consumption of alcohol, and violence.

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