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Rural Sites Network

Rural Sites Network Resource Development Retreat

Application Deadline: March 15, 2006
To submit your application, go to: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/162

Complete Application Information

Overview

Participants at the retreat will be guided through the process of shaping a piece of work into one or more published forms that may include, but are not limited to, bibliographies, monographs, and articles. It is our hope that participants will submit a draft that, with the support of the RSN Resource Development Leadership team, will be published in a variety of venues.

While site leaders are invited to apply to write about any successful writing project work in a rural setting, we are especially interested in work that helps us to answer the following questions often posed to the Rural Sites Network:

  1. What resources exist to help rural sites talk and think about diversity in rural places?
  2. How do rural writing project sites maintain continuity programming across the large distances that divide their teacher-consultants?
  3. How does a rural writing project renew or reinvent itself?
  4. What special adaptations have rural sites made to their summer institutes?
  5. How have rural writing project sites handled the special difficulties of providing professional development to small, poorly funded, distant school districts?
  6. How have sites used minigrant funds to develop long-term, self-sustaining work at their sites?

Your complete application will consist of:

Submission Instructions

Participation in RSN's Resource Development Retreat is by online application only. In order to submit your application, type your answers in a word processing program and save the document. Once you begin the application submission process, you may either upload this file as an attachment to your application or copy and paste the text manually into the provided text box.

Application questions (limit 3 pages):

  1. What has been your experience with rural education and with your local writing project site?
  2. Briefly describe the site program or inquiry about which you would like to write. Discuss how this program/inquiry began and how it has expanded your site's capacity to work with rural schools and teachers.
  3. What data or evidence or examples of work have you collected to enable you to write about this work?
  4. How would you describe its relevance for other rural sites across the network?

Letter of Support

This application requires a brief letter of support from the director or co-director of your site, indicating support for your continued leadership at the site. Please ask your site director or co-director to respond to the email inquiry he or she will receive after you have submitted your Resource Development Retreat application online. Your application will not be complete until we receive your letter of support.

Selection

Participation in the retreat is by application only. The pool of participants chosen will be as representative as possible of the geographic, racial, and ethnic diversity of the Rural Sites Network. Sites may choose to send an individual or pair of teacher consultants to write about a successful practice in a rural setting. The Resource Development Retreat is limited to 20 participants.

Deadline

Submit completed applications no later than March 15, 2006. All applicants will be contacted regarding their applications by March 31, 2006.