AM1 Planning Your Site's Online Presence: Using Technology as a Tool for Inquiry
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E02
Rethinking your site’s online presence can open a new window into its core work, priorities, and goals. More ›

AM2 Special-Focus Network Minigrants: How to Access Supplemental Funding to Grow Your Site Strategically
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E03
Have you been thinking about obtaining supplemental funding as an opportunity to grow your site? More ›

AM3 The Invitational Summer Institute: Developing Teacher-Consultants from Interview to Inservice
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E04
This workshop explores the practices of three different writing project sites as their leaders share approaches to their invitational summer institutes. More ›

AM4 The Evolving Bibliography: Rethinking Reading Lists for Rural Sites
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E07
How might our summer institute reading list be changed in order to enhance our work with rural schools? More ›

AM5 Focus on Inservice: Designing or Adapting New Approaches
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E08
How can we design inservice that is grounded in NWP principles and addresses what schools and teachers need? More ›

AM6 Integrating Professional Writing into the Core Work of a Site
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E09
Integrating professional writing into the core work of a site can strengthen the summer institute and continuity programs, provide new leadership opportunities, and help teacher-consultants and directors publish professionally. More ›

AM7 Designing Open Institutes to Expand the Reach of Writing Project Sites
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E10
Facilitators of this workshop will engage participants in designing a menu of open institutes to increase access to writing project programs. More ›

AM8 Harnessing the Power of Survey Research
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E11
Surveys can be powerful tools to improve your writing project site’s programs as well as to address a variety of other research goals you may have. More ›

AM9 Inquiry and Reflection in the Summer Invitational Institute
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E12
Site leaders who attend this workshop will experience—and refine—new practices that guide summer institute fellows to use inquiry and reflection to make connections between their writing, reading, and teaching practice. More ›

AM10 A Writing Project Site Tackles Reading
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E13
When leaders of one veteran writing project site set out to apply what they knew about effective professional development practices in writing to the area of reading, they found they needed to make some adjustments. More ›

AM11 Developing Site Leadership
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E14
In this workshop, we’ll examine the relationship between site development and leadership development, focusing on recruiting, mentoring, and organizing teacher-leaders to undertake the work of the site. More ›

AM12 What Makes a Site Accessible? Conducting a Self-Study to Improve Access
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E15
This workshop supports site leaders’ and teacher-consultants’ efforts to make their writing project site more accessible to a diverse group of teachers. More ›

AM13 Describing Student Work: Prospect Center’s Process for Close Looking
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E16
Participants in this workshop use the Descriptive Review of Children’s Work, a process developed by Pat Carini and teachers at the Prospect School and Center, to look closely at the work of individual children. More ›

AM14 Writing in the Digital Age: Composing with Media in the Classroom
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E18
This workshop will explore the evolving nature of writing and literacy today and the significance of the ever-changing landscape for educators. More ›

AM15 Sustaining and Enhancing Professional Development Partnerships
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E19
Participants in this workshop will explore the benefits of partnership work with leaders from three sites that are currently engaged in successful ongoing partnerships. More ›

AM16 Advocating for Your Writing Project Site
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E20
If you want to learn more about how to tell the story of your writing project site in today’s policy environment, join us for a session that explores the NWP Advocacy Toolkit and identifies a number of different purposes for communication and a variety of audiences. More ›

AM17 Starting and Sustaining Diversity and Equity Conversations in Classrooms and Writing Project Sites
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E21
Being a leader for equity and democracy, whether in your classroom, your school, or your writing project site, often means engaging in difficult talk. More ›

PM1 Exploring Language Acquisition, Academic Literacy, and Advocacy for English Language Learners
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E02
As more families who speak a language other than English move to communities around the country—where many classroom teachers may have little experience understanding and meeting their needs—writing project sites need to develop safe structures for teachers to explore and share ways of supporting ELL students. More ›

PM2 Investigating New-Teacher Initiative Resources: Working with New Teachers
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E03
The NWP’s New-Teacher Initiative Leadership Team takes participants through an inquiry process as they investigate dissemination documents developed by the team and by the outside researcher Inverness Research Associates. More ›

PM3 Recruiting for the Summer Invitational Institute
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E04
This workshop focuses on the central role of recruiting in the development of a site, looks at the challenges that sites face, and explores strategies to address them. More ›

PM4 Teacher-Consultants, Leadership, and Sustainability
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E07
This workshop is an inquiry into developing teacher-consultant leadership and supporting teachers in taking ownership of the work and the governance of a writing project site. More ›

PM5 Organizing, Developing, and Planning for Inservice
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E08
What is the work of a site’s inservice coordinator, and how can a site find, nurture, and support this vital leader? More ›

PM6 Pathways into Inquiry: Models for Beginning Teacher Inquiry Communities
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E09
This session, hosted by the Teacher Inquiry Communities Network, will present a variety of ways to begin teacher inquiry within the work of a site. More ›

PM7 An Inquiry into Writing Instruction with Mandated Curricula
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E10
How can we teach creatively and effectively while adhering to mandated curricula? More ›

PM8 Learning from NWP’s Legacy Study
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E11
How have teachers who participated in NWP summer institutes shaped the field of education and the lives of others? More ›

PM9 Developing New Partnerships with Schools
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E12
Participants in this workshop will develop strategies for forming new partnerships with schools. More ›

PM10 From Preparing for Writing Tests to Assessing and Teaching Writing
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E13
What is the impact of high-stakes tests on curriculum, teachers, and students, and how do we develop programs for teachers when writing instruction must focus on meeting standards of minimum competency? More ›

PM11 Next Steps in Conversations About Promising Practices for Working with African American Learners
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E14
Continuing the commitments of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), National Writing Project’s African American Learners Project members share approaches to strengthening educators’ capacity to improve the academic achievement of African American learners, K–16. More ›

PM12 From Day-to-Day Decisions to Longer-Term Achievements: The Art and Craft of Inservice
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E15
From identifying the need to designing and presenting the program, this workshop demonstrates how inservice work can function in ways that increase a site’s complexity, diversity, and scale as it builds the capacity that broadens its impact on schools in its service area. More ›

PM14 Twenty-First-Century Girls: In the Mix
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E18
How might writing instruction support the positive development of girls’ voices and encourage girls’ active participation in their own developing literacy and in civic culture? More ›

PM15 Working Through Transitions in Writing Project Leadership
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E19
How can a site not only weather a leadership transition but benefit from it? More ›

PM16 Designing Professional Development for Teachers in All Disciplines
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E20
Participants in this workshop will explore an approach to inservice programs that has successfully engaged teachers from a variety of disciplines. More ›

PM17 Developing Writing Project Leadership in Content-Area Teachers
Javits, Level 1, Room 1E21
This workshop is designed for site leaders interested in expanding their site’s work by developing leadership opportunities for content-area teachers. More ›