Current issue

Issue 6 (Special Issue, guest edited by Jennifer Marciniak and Rebecca Bruning)
Training Tutors to Work with Graduate and Post-doctoral Writers

Archived issues can be found under the Center Moves menu button at the top of the page.

ABOUT CENTER MOVES

Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials seeks to support and facilitate communication and community among writing and learning center administrators and tutors by developing a peer-reviewed archive of materials, updated biannually, that new and continuing administrators can draw upon and contribute to as their tutor education and training programs develop and evolve. 

Goals and Purpose

As writing and learning center administrators, we recognize the value of providing high-quality training to our tutors to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to support all writers effectively. We also know that we rarely have opportunities to learn how other administrators conduct training; because of this, administrators, at all stages of our careers, often do not have significant support or models for the “moves” of tutor training and education. 

The purpose of Center Moves is to serve as an archive of peer-reviewed lesson plans and materials, grounded in scholarship, theory, or praxis, that administrators and tutors can use and modify to train new tutors and to support ongoing professional development for existing tutors. This archive will allow writing center administrators and tutors to share and access lesson plans that offer a variety of new topics, tools, methods, materials, activities, and resources for training tutors with varied ranges of experience to work with writers at all levels.

Center Moves is published and housed by the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA), a regional affiliate of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA).

Editorial Board

Call for Editors!

The Editorial Board is inviting two editors to serve on the board over the course of four issue cycles (issues 8-11), from November 2026 through March 2028. We encourage anyone active in writing or learning center tutor training, including graduate students, to apply! 

Find the full call and instructions to apply here.

Reviewers

• • Reviewers are invited by the editorial board for each issue based on their knowledge of and experience with the issue themes. 

  • Reviewers may include writing center tutors and administrators at various career stages who are in staff roles, contingent faculty roles, and tenured faculty roles.

  The following people have reviewed proposals for Center Moves: 

• • Lisa Bell, Utah Valley University
  • John Bradley, Vanderbilt University
  • Becca Cassady, Baylor University
  • Melody Denny, St. Lawrence University
  • Erik Echols, University of Washington, Bothell
  • Ashton Foley-Schramm, University of Oklahoma
  • Clint Gardner, Salt Lake Community College
  • Percival Guevarra, University of California, Irvine
  • Allie Hamilton, University of Nevada, Reno
  • Lori Jacobson, College of William and Mary
  • Amber Jensen, South Dakota State University
  • Jack Kenigsberg, Hunter College
  • Makayla Kocher, Wyoming State University
  • Madi Kooba, University of Oregon
  • Christopher LeCluyse, Westminster University
  • Linda Macri, University of Maryland–College Park
  • Jairo Marshall, University of New Mexico–Albuquerque
  • Jamaica Ritcher, University of Idaho
  • Juli Parrish, University of Denver
  • Olivia Tracy, University of Denver
  • Erin Zimmerman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas