B1 Redesigning Professional Development and Inservice with Technology
Marriott, 5th floor, Juilliard
Leaders of three writing project sites that have been involved with the NWP Technology Initiative over the past two to three years will share some of the thinking and rethinking they have been doing as they develop inservice and professional development programs that promote the thoughtful integration of technology into the teaching and learning of writing. More ›

B2 Supporting Summer Institute Goals in the Digital Age
Marriott, 5th floor, Imperial
Explore a range of ways that technology is supporting the work and goals of the summer institute at a variety of writing project sites. More ›

B3 Technology as a Tool for Diversity and Equity
Marriott, 5th floor, Broadhurst
How can technology best support NWP’s mission to achieve equity and diversity? More ›

B4 Accessing the Power of Talk Through Digital Voice Recorders
Marriott, 5th floor, Belasco
Participants in this session will discover how students in a primary classroom used digital voice recorders to create new literacy identities. More ›

B5 Designing Writing and Technology Camps for Youth
Marriott, 5th floor, Booth
Presenters from two writing project sites will share ways their youth writing camps provide opportunities for teachers and students to explore intersections between technology and literacy. More ›

B6 Old Wine in New Bottles: Blogging as Composition
Marriott, 5th floor, Edison
This session focuses on an eleventh-grader’s blog post along with the assignments, drafts, and responses associated with that post. More ›

B7 More Than a Web Page: Building Writing Project Communities
Marriott, 5th floor, Alvin
In this session we explore free content management systems, such as Drupal and Joomla, that can streamline the way a site recruits summer institute participants, offers continuity programs, and markets professional development opportunities. More ›

B8 Strengthening State and Regional Networks Through Advanced Institutes
Marriott, 5th floor, Carnegie
In this interactive session, two writing project sites show how they build, support, and sustain site capacity through state and regional networks. More ›

B9 Online Peer Response with English Language Learners
Marriott, 5th floor, Lyceum
In this session two teachers of English language learners share how they used Google Docs, an online document-sharing space, with their students, who read their classmates’ writing and inserted comments into each other’s documents. More ›

B11 Making the Work Count in a Higher Education Career
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 401
This facilitated discussion explores how to make NWP work visible and valuable as part of a director’s university career path, including making it count toward tenure and promotion. More ›

B12 Credit-Bearing University Courses as Strategy for Writing Project Sites
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 402
Many writing project sites offer credit-bearing university courses in the teaching of writing. More ›

B13 Professional Development for Teacher-Consultants: Writing Project Sites as Communities of Learners
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 403/404
How do writing project sites plan for the continued learning of teacher-consultants who facilitate on-site professional development in schools and districts? More ›

B14 Fostering Change in Urban Writing Project Sites and School Districts
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 405/406
Three recent recipients of Urban Sites Network (USN) minigrants discuss the impact that a $5,000 USN minigrant had on their sites and service areas and the opportunities that arose as a result of their projects—which ranged from the role of race in interactions between students, teachers, and parents in Long Island, to revision-based content-area writing in Boston, to home and school literacies of ELL students in Charlotte, NC. More ›

B15 Writing Project Communities Put Equity and Teacher Leadership Issues Front and Center
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Room 407
This session highlights the experiences and strategies of two writing project sites as they examine equity issues both in the classroom and at the site. More ›

B16 Inquiry Projects and Reading in Content-Area Classes
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Act I - Broadway Ballroom
Three presenters demonstrate how they use student inquiry projects to stimulate reading (and writing) of nonfiction texts. More ›

B17 Students’ Drawings and Teaching Writing
Crowne Plaza, 4th floor, Act III - Broadway Ballroom
In this roundtable session, we engage teachers in looking closely at samples of student work, including drawings and writing, as a springboard for our own writing and discussion about how such work could inform our writing instruction. More ›

B19 Writing Project Sites and the Remaking of the American High School
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 501/502
With many stakeholders in education—such as legislators, district administrations, and community organizations—sharing ideas about how to remake the American high school, how do we support teacher-consultants who are teaching in high schools undergoing reform or restructuring? More ›

B20 Reframing the American Narrative Through Indigenous Ways of Seeing
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 504
Through the practice of critical inquiry we will examine what is presently understood or assumed about Indigenous peoples in the United States. More ›

B21 Policy Recommendations About Writing Instruction—Ideas for Using Writing Next and Similar Reports
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 505
Join the conversation about the recently published report Writing Next, a meta-analysis of experimental research on effective strategies for writing instruction. More ›

B22 Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Holocaust
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 506
This summer, 18 rural educators from around the country came to New York City to attend the Memorial Library Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education. More ›

B23 Sealing the Deal: Talking to Administrators About Inservice Programs
Crowne Plaza, 5th floor, Room 509/510
This session addresses the practical conversations that sites have with administrators in order to contract and arrange for inservice work. More ›

B24 Reading the Research: Practicing Research by Researching Practice
Crowne Plaza, 15th floor, Room 1503
Led by members of the Teacher Inquiry Communities Network Leadership Team, participants will be involved in a guided reading of a speech given by Patricia Lambert Stock that focuses on researching practice. More ›

B25 Getting to Know NWPi and NWP Web Systems
Crowne Plaza, 15th floor, Room 1504
NWP Interactive (NWPi) provides a gateway to Web content and tools, and to applications that are tailored to NWP users. More ›

B26 Reading the Research: Rural Leaders, Rural Places
Crowne Plaza, 15th floor, Room 1505
What are the problems, privileges, and possibilities of education in rural places? More ›

B27 The 2011 NAEP Writing Assessment: Its Development and Possible Effect on Teaching and Learning
Crowne Plaza, 15th floor, Room 1506
Learn how the 2011 Writing Framework for the National Assessment of Educational Progress reflects research, curriculum, and pedagogy. More ›