QuestionsFriday Breakout Sessions Topic Index
- Continuity
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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›- Diversity/Equity
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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›- Evaluation/Documentation
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 ›- Site Management/Reporting
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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›- Summer Institute
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 ›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 ›- Teacher Inquiry
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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›- Teaching Writing
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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›- Technology
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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›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 ›- University/Public Relations
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 ›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 ›- Youth Family Community
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 ›
