A1 Reading the Research: Still Separate, Still Unequal
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis A
Sponsored by Project Outreach, members of the Red Clay Project Outreach team will facilitate a guided reading of "Still Separate, Still Unequal" by Jonathon Kozol. More ›

A2 Working Toward Relevance
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis B
In this session you will explore the importance of relevance in building professional development relationships and in offering teachers in low-income communities access to professional development. More ›

A3 Reading the Research: Resiliency
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis C
In this session we will explore recent research on resiliency and discuss how sites are using writing to tap the potential of students in order to support and develop resiliency. More ›

A4 Implementing a Web Presence Plan: What We’ve Learned
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis D
Site leaders will present and discuss what they’ve learned as they develop their site’s online presence. More ›

A5 Looking “Inside Inquiry": The Power of Teacher Research Across Writing Project Sites
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Independence
In this session, you will explore strategies for enhancing teacher inquiry within your site and developing inquiry connections with other writing project sites. More ›

A6 The Continued Funding Application as a Tool for Developing Your Site
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio A
Every NWP site submits a continued funding application (CFA) each year that reports on the site’s recent work and describes thinking about future goals and plans. More ›

A7 Persisting Through Barriers: African American Males and Learning
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio B
This interactive workshop will invite participants to review ongoing research into middle school and community college African American males that focuses on their self-reporting of barriers they face in educational settings. More ›

A8 Assessing Writing with the Make-It-Better/Make-It-Worse Protocol
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio C
Learn how to use the Make-It-Better/Make-It-Worse Protocol to gain a better understanding of what your students know about writing. More ›

A9 Reading the Research: Content Area Literacy
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett A
What challenges and possibilities are associated with promoting content area literacy? More ›

A10 Developing as a Higher Education Faculty Member and Site Leader
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett B
Can career development in higher education (including tenure and promotion) and leading a writing project site be compatible? More ›

A11 Reading the Research: Teachers, Writers, Leaders
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett C
Designed to foster reflection and discussion, this session will engage participants in an active reading of “Teachers, Writers, Leaders” (Lieberman and Friedrich, 2007). More ›

A12 Race and Diversity in Rural Places
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett D
Beginning conversations about diversity in rural places can be both a challenge and an opportunity for writing project sites. More ›

A13 Joining the National Conversation on Writing: An Interactive Workshop
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Seguin A
This workshop introduces you to the National Conversation on Writing, in which people nationwide are interviewed about writing and their responses are published on the Web. More ›

A14 Classroom Matters: Springboard for Professional Writing?
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Seguin B
Join a roundtable discussion of the way Classroom Matters, a forum in the NWP’s E-Anthology, might be useful in a site’s summer institute. More ›

A15 Expanding the Participation of Content Area Teachers
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic A
This National Reading Initiative workshop builds on a recent online conversation and will include examining our understandings of literacy across disciplines and grade levels; sharing of the challenges we face in attracting and retaining content area teachers; and identifying approaches sites might use to build greater content area leadership. More ›

A16 Youth Voices: Connecting Students Across Schools
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic B
You'll leave this workshop ready to sign your students up in a school-based social network. More ›

A17 Developing Site Leadership
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic C
This workshop will explore the connection between site development and leadership development in the early years of an NWP site. More ›

A18 Special-Focus Networks Minigrant Poster Session
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon A - Texas Ballroom
Presenters will share site-based projects that were developed through special-focus network minigrant funds. More ›

A20 Teaching ELL Writers in a Digital Age
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon C - Texas Ballroom
In this session you will sample new technologies (digital storytelling, blogging, podcasting, and more) and learn how these technologies can be used to engage your English language learners in deeper language acquisition and extend their opportunities to practice writing. More ›

A21 Covering the Distance and Offering Access with Technology
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon D - Texas Ballroom
This workshop will engage participants in exploring ways that technology can support continuity, inservice, and leadership development at rural sites with geographical constraints. More ›

A22 Blogging the Summer Institute
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon E - Texas Ballroom
Participants in this session will have an opportunity to hear from sites that have made aspects of their summer institute public via blogs. More ›

A23 What Can We Learn from Student Writing Using a Wiki?
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon F - Texas Ballroom
In this interactive session, Jason Shiroff, a teacher of fourth and fifth grades and the technology liaison at the Denver Writing Project, will share work and reflections from a teacher research project that explores student use of a wiki as part of a cross-disciplinary unit. More ›