Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials 

Vision Statement

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.

most Recent issue

Issue 5: Helping Writers and Writing Across the Curriculum & Checking in with Writers

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

Call for Proposals for upcoming issue

The Center Moves Editors have had several discussions recently about how deeply reading and writing are interconnected in our daily center work, as well as how tutors themselves read, study, and learn about the field through their training. This issue explores that dual dynamic: how we train tutors to actively support reading in writing consultations, and how we introduce those same tutors to the foundational philosophies and best practices of Writing Center Studies. We invite proposals for this issue that share insights and strategies on these two topics:

Please see this full CFP for additional context, guiding questions, and a bibliography that might help inform submissions.

Reach out to centermoves.rmwca@gmail.com if you have questions.

Submission and Peer Review Process: 

Proposal Submission Deadline and Form

All submissions for our seventh issue must be received by July 15, 2026

To submit your proposal, please complete our Proposal Form. 

You can access a PDF of the Center Moves proposal questions to help you draft and our Center Moves Keyword Glossary for more information about the keywords in the form.

About Center Moves

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

• • Managing Editor: Erin Zimmerman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Editors-at-large: Melody Denny, St. Lawrence University; Erik Echols, University of Washington Bothell; Juli Parrish, University of Denver; Olivia Tracy, University of Denver
  • Past Editors: Jamaica Ritcher, University of Idaho; Lisa Bell, Utah Valley University
    

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
  • Melody Denny, St. Lawrence University
  • Erik Echols, University of Washington, Bothell
  • 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
  • Jack Kenigsberg, Hunter College
  • Makayla Kocher, Wyoming State University
  • Madi Kooba, University of Oregon
  • Christopher LeCluyse, Westminster University
  • Jamaica Ritcher, University of Idaho
  • Olivia Tracy, University of Denver
  • Juli Parrish, University of Denver
  • Erin Zimmerman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas