B1 Reading the Research: Sustaining a Community of Learners Among Teacher-Consultants
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis A
How can a writing project site maintain a thriving intellectual community that supports and nurtures the professional growth of its teacher-consultants? More ›

B2 Words and Images
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis B
Come join us as we share our love of photography and writing as a combined activity—and find out more about the collaboration between NWP and the Smithsonian in a photo project called Click! More ›

B3 Reading the Research: Ethical Dilemmas in Teacher Research
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis C
When teacher research data is clearly compelling but students object to its dissemination, whose needs should prevail—those of the teacher researcher or the students with whom the research is being conducted? More ›

B4 Visioning Retreats as a Strategy for Site Development
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis D
In this session, the authors will share their work-in-progress monographs from the upcoming NWP at Work set of monographs on continuity. More ›

B5 Opening Worlds in Our Classrooms While Developing Site Capacity to Support ELL Teachers
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Independence
What happens when students are allowed and encouraged to bring their languages and their worlds into the classroom? More ›

B6 NWP Sites: Reporting and Compliance
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio A
This session will provide an update on NWP grant reporting, compliance, and the annual cycle of reporting. More ›

B7 Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Holocaust
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio B
Come to this session, sponsored by the Rural Sites Network, to learn more about the Holocaust Educators Network, to view a DVD overview of the summer seminar, and to think collaboratively about the ways Holocaust education can lead to activism and address current social issues. More ›

B8 Academic Writing: Into College and Beyond
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio C
Explore the processes and strategies that students need today to write well in college, no matter how bright and academically savvy they might be. More ›

B9 Reading the Research: Media Education and Literacy in the 21st Century
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett A
This Reading the Research session examines a white paper titled “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. More ›

B10 Rethinking Writing and Assessment After the Storm
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett B
This session will feature teacher-consultants from the Greater New Orleans Writing Project (GNOWP), who will lead participants through some of the writing practices they have developed to specifically address the issues of adolescent literacy in the face of trauma. More ›

B11 Reading the Research: Becoming Familiar with the ELL Annotated Bibliography
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett C
Come spend some time with us looking at the NWP Annotated ELL Bibliography and explore potential uses of the bibliography at your site or for your own professional growth. More ›

B12 Challenges and Possibilities in Rural Education
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett D
Using excerpts from the Institute of Educational Science’s Status of Education in Rural America and the Rural School and Community Trust’s Why Rural Matters, participants will read about and reflect on current rural educational issues. More ›

B13 Writing Project Practices in Training Writing Center Tutors and Designing Centers
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Seguin A
Middle school and high school writing centers across the nation are being supported by university writing centers and writing project sites. More ›

B14 How LSRI Results Can Benefit Your Site
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Seguin B
Examine the new NWP Research Brief showing results of the LSRI (Local Site Research Initiative) studies and create a plan for using the brief with teacher-consultants, school and district administrators, funders, legislators, and others. More ›

B15 Getting to Know the NWP: An Informal Discussion with Sharon J. Washington
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic A
Join an informal discussion about the National Writing Project. More ›

B16 Website Work: Using Content Management Systems to Enhance Site Performance
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic B
As part of a strategic Web presence plan, the Lake Michigan Writing Project has begun to use a content management system to support recruitment and continuity, as well as community building and learning during their summer institute and teacher research courses. More ›

B17 Teacher-Consultant Leadership: From Your Classroom to Your Writing Project Site
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic C
Participants will examine a range of ways that sites support teachers to develop from summer institute fellows into leaders, building capacity for the work of their sites. More ›

B19 Designing Technology Professional Development
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Bonham D
Presenters from two writing project sites will share strategies and thinking that have gone into the development of successful professional development programs that promote the thoughtful integration of technology into the teaching and learning of writing. More ›

B20 Hard Talk: Tough Conversations About Teaching Writing and About Learning
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon C - Texas Ballroom
Using techniques from Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, participants will engage in a variety of dramatizations of events that require engagement in “tough conversations” about race and pedagogy. More ›

B21 Multigenre Contexts for Writing About Native Americans
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon D - Texas Ballroom
Participants in this workshop will learn how two Native American teacher-consultants have tackled the task of providing appropriate cultural contexts for studying native literature. More ›

B22 Examining the Writing Processes of Digital Storytelling
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon E - Texas Ballroom
Session presenters have collaborated with the Pearson Foundation, an organization that supports educational projects, in an effort to make transparent the literacy practices involved in their digital storytelling work with students. More ›

B23 Exploring Writing Workshop in the High School Classroom
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon F - Texas Ballroom
Join two collaborating teachers in exploring writing workshop by inquiring into the practices and conditions that support this activity in classrooms. More ›