A1 Immigrant Voices
Marriott, 5th floor, Juilliard
Digital storytelling provides immigrant secondary students a meaningful voice—weaving pasts, presents, and futures. More ›

A2 Building and Sustaining a Technology Team
Marriott, 5th floor, Imperial
This session explores the reasons to develop a technology team and a range of ways in which a team might be composed and sustained. More ›

A3 Engaging Special Populations Through Technology
Marriott, 5th floor, Broadhurst
Leaders from the Northern California Writing Project will describe and demonstrate ways that technology can be used to help secondary special education students compose multimodal compositions for a variety of audiences and purposes. More ›

A4 Planning for a Site’s Web Presence: What Have We Learned?
Marriott, 5th floor, Belasco
Join site teams as they present and discuss what they’ve learned as they develop their site’s presence on the Web. More ›

A5 Examining the Purposes and Processes of Digital Storytelling
Marriott, 5th floor, Booth
Writing project teachers and sites have engaged in digital storytelling for the past decade, and many of us have stories to tell about composing in this medium. More ›

A6 Reading the Research: Technology and Composition
Marriott, 5th floor, Edison
This “Reading the Research” session takes a look at studies that examine the interrelationships between technology and composition. More ›

A7 Common Threads: Networking Globally to Build Locally
Marriott, 5th floor, Alvin
Four technology liaisons from across the Technology Liaisons Network tell their leadership-building stories, from participation at the 2006 Technology Matters Institute to minigrant development and implementation. More ›

A9 Making Digital Compositions the New Language Arts Essay
Marriott, 5th floor, Lyceum
In this session you will learn how two different writing project teachers have used digital composition to teach basic writing skills and, in the process, have changed the social and political dimensions of the learning environment. More ›

A10 Special-Focus Networks Poster Session
Marriott, 5th floor, Salon 3 - Westside Ballroom
This session will share site-based projects that were developed through special-focus network minigrant funds. More ›

A11 Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6–12
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 401
This how-to and why-to session for grade 6–12 educators guides participants in coming to know the theory and practices of writing centers—places in school where writers work with each other in an effort to develop ideas, discover a thesis, overcome procrastination, create an outline, or revise a draft. More ›

A12 Reading the Research: Academic Literacy and English Learners
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 402
This “Reading the Research” session takes a look at studies of English learners and academic literacy. More ›

A14 Using Social Action and Teaching Standards in Student-Run Projects
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 405/406
Come to this session to learn how Social Action inspired youth at the Stadium School in Baltimore, Maryland to create their own neighborhood youth center. More ›

A15 Strengthening the University Connection
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 407
Maintaining a strong presence in the university is critical to the stability of a writing project site. More ›

A16 Strategic Planning and Leadership Development
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Act I - Broadway Ballroom
This session explores the twin processes of strategic planning and leadership development, and their role in growing a strong NWP site. More ›

A17 How New Sites Recruit, Develop, and Organize Site Leadership
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Act III - Broadway Ballroom
In this workshop for new sites, we’ll look beyond the summer invitational institute to the development of year-round programs as we consider the relationship between site development and the development of teacher-leaders. More ›

A18 The Summer Institute Demonstration Workshop: Sources, Conduct, Impacts
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Act IV - Broadway Ballroom
Join us in thinking from various perspectives—site director, summer institute fellow, teacher-consultant, researcher in education—about what is called the “presentation workshop” at some NWP sites, the “demonstration workshop” at others, and the “teacher inquiry workshop” at still others. More ›

A19 Composing in Thirdspace: Location-Based Writing Through Multiple Modes with Urban Students
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 501/502
This presentation explores an approach to teaching writing to urban students that brings teachers and students into a critical examination of language, identity, and power. More ›

A20 Double the Work: Language Learners Developing Literacy in the Content Areas
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 504
Many writing project teachers are working to ensure that ELL students develop their language skills while mastering academic content. More ›

A21 Finding Your Research Question
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 505
Narrowing your ideas down to one research question can often be the most daunting part of teacher research, even leading to total abandonment of your project. More ›

A22 Reading the Research: Studies in Whiteness
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 506
This “Reading the Research” session examines the field of whiteness studies—recent scholarship that examines, questions, and critiques “whiteness” as a racial category. More ›

A23 Strategies for Reading Complex Texts in the Summer Institute
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 509/510
Often, professional conversations are not easy to join—theory can feel alienating and the language can feel complicated and abstract. More ›

A24 E-Volution: Getting to Know and Grow with the E-Anthology
Crowne Plaza, 15th floor, Room 1503
Join E-Team members as they discuss the mechanics and philosophy of the popular E-Anthology. More ›

A25 NWP Sites: Reporting and Compliance
Crowne Plaza, 15th floor, Room 1504
This session will provide an update on NWP grant reporting, compliance, and the annual cycle of reporting. More ›

A26 In the Beginning: Founding Directors Tell the NWP Story
Crowne Plaza, 15th floor, Room 1505
We invite founding directors and teacher-leaders, particularly those who founded sites prior to NWP federal funding, to add your voices to this session. More ›

A27 The Power of Words: How Language Affects Writing Project Work
Crowne Plaza, 15th floor, Room 1506
Participants in this session will read a short article and engage in a series of writing activities that support inquiry into how language affects our work as teachers in the classroom and as teacher-leaders at our local sites. More ›