Thursday Site Development Workshop Topic Index

• Continuity

• AM2 Strengthening Work with New Teachers
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis B
  This workshop offers site leaders and teacher-consultants an opportunity to expand existing work with new teachers or to develop programs to attract and keep new teachers in their writing project community. More ›

  AM3 The National Reading Initiative’s Electronic Binder: Organizing to Share Reading Resources
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis C
  Learn how the National Reading Initiative's electronic binder, a tool that helps record how we use readings to inquire into, understand, and discuss reading comprehension, can be added to and adapted for other areas of work at your site. More ›

  AM7 Sharing Theories of Action for Continuity Programming
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio B
  Engage with three writing project sites in learning about their approach to developing continuity programs that support site leadership teams and provide for their sites’ ongoing renewal and learning. More ›

  AM10 Assessment as a Window into Instruction
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Seguin A & B
  Experience NWP’s rubric, the Analytic Writing Continuum (AWC), and its multiple uses in site work and in classrooms. More ›

  PM2 Inquiry as Advocacy: Using Teacher Inquiry Communities to Promote Social Justice
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis B
  This session, hosted by the Teacher Inquiry Communities Network, will feature a variety of ways that sites have used teacher inquiry communities to promote social justice. More ›

  PM4 Integrating Professional Writing into the Core Work of a Site
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Independence
  Join the interactive presentation of teacher-consultants and site directors who have put together successful writing retreats with minimal budgets and busy teachers, as evidenced by their 2006-2007 Professional Writing Retreat minigrant reports. More ›

  PM10 Appreciative Inquiry into Site Development
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett C
  Members of the Urban Sites Network Leadership Team and representatives from three mixed-area sites will use a model known as appreciative inquiry to engage small groups in an examination of a broad range of local data related to the intentional efforts of writing project sites to attract and sustain the involvement of diverse teachers. More ›

  PM11 The Web as a Tool for Continuity
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Seguin A & B
  Drawing on an open institute and a digital publication, this session will explore how continuity programs can utilize the Internet as a powerful resource. More ›

• Diversity/Equity

• AM4 Organizational Change in Project Outreach
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Independence
  Project Outreach is designed to change the way that writing projects work by enhancing the capacity for writing projects to address issues of equity, and participants will have an opportunity to learn about change at three sites and take steps toward designing organizational change at their own writing project. More ›

  AM6 Reenvisioning Your Site to Meet the Needs of English Language Learners
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio C
  In this workshop two sites will share models of how they facilitated courageous conversations through teacher inquiry groups focused on race, equity, and best practices for working with ELLs. More ›

  AM13 Developing Capacity for Culturally Mediated Instruction
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic B
  Two writing project sites will share how their advanced institutes are developing ELL teachers’ capacity to create classroom environments that support culturally mediated instruction. More ›

  PM2 Inquiry as Advocacy: Using Teacher Inquiry Communities to Promote Social Justice
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis B
  This session, hosted by the Teacher Inquiry Communities Network, will feature a variety of ways that sites have used teacher inquiry communities to promote social justice. More ›

• Site Management/Reporting

• AM1 Navigating the Rough Road to Successful Rural Inservice
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis A
  Using fictionalized case studies created by the Rural Sites Network leadership team, participants will engage in interactive problem solving of common difficulties encountered when delivering inservice in rural settings. More ›

  AM4 Organizational Change in Project Outreach
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Independence
  Project Outreach is designed to change the way that writing projects work by enhancing the capacity for writing projects to address issues of equity, and participants will have an opportunity to learn about change at three sites and take steps toward designing organizational change at their own writing project. More ›

  AM5 Special-Focus Network Minigrants: Accessing Supplemental Funding to Grow Your Site Strategically
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio A
  Have you and others at your site been thinking about accessing supplemental funding as an opportunity to grow your site? More ›

  AM8 Self-Representation and Site Identity
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett A
  This workshop will explore the ways in which sites represent themselves and their work to various audiences. More ›

  AM17 Reenvisioning Site Leadership
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon C - Texas Ballroom
  When change and transition are on the horizon for writing project sites, leaders can use the opportunity to reenvision site leadership. More ›

  PM1 Using Site Profile Data for Strategic Planning and Inquiry
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis A
  This interactive workshop will engage site leaders in thinking about how to use site data to conduct inquiry and support the work of their sites. More ›

  PM5 Strategic Designs for Open Programs and Saturday Sessions
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio A
  Open programs and Saturday sessions, if thought about strategically, can provide writing project sites with ways to expand their reach to teachers. More ›

  PM7 Thinking Strategically About Your Site’s Online Presence
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio C
  This hands-on workshop offers participants the chance to view their sites in a new way using tools and processes developed to support the annual NWP web presence planning retreat. More ›

  PM14 Exploring Tensions in Site Work and Site Leadership
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic C
  The work of leading an NWP site often depends upon multiple and complex relationships, both individual and institutional. More ›

  PM17 Developing and Sustaining Leadership Teams
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon C - Texas Ballroom
  In this session participants will examine the development of leadership teams through strategies such as teacher-consultant apprenticeships and mentoring, and will consider the ways these practices support and extend leadership at a site, create new possibilities for site work and leadership, and develop the confidence and knowledge of teacher-leaders. More ›

• Summer Institute

• AM19 Rethinking Reading for the Summer Institute
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon E - Texas Ballroom
  Participants in this workshop will take an inquiry stance to examine their site’s reading list and the summer institute structures that support those readings. More ›

  PM6 Teachers as Writers, Writers as Teachers
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio B
  The Eastern Virginia Writing Project has embedded creative writing into its summer institute to assist teachers in practicing what they teach. More ›

  PM10 Appreciative Inquiry into Site Development
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett C
  Members of the Urban Sites Network Leadership Team and representatives from three mixed-area sites will use a model known as appreciative inquiry to engage small groups in an examination of a broad range of local data related to the intentional efforts of writing project sites to attract and sustain the involvement of diverse teachers. More ›

  PM15 Inquiry into Demonstrations
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon A - Texas Ballroom
  This workshop explores the role of inquiry in the examination of teacher practice in the summer invitational institute. More ›

  PM19 The Invitational Summer Institute: Preparing Teacher-Consultants for Learning and Leading
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon E - Texas Ballroom
  Since a primary purpose of the invitational summer institute is to prepare and develop teacher-leaders, this workshop will explore how that purpose affects the ways that sites recruit excellent teachers and support them during the summer institute, preparing them to lead inservice and continuity as part of the site’s ongoing professional community. More ›

• Teacher Inquiry

• AM13 Developing Capacity for Culturally Mediated Instruction
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic B
  Two writing project sites will share how their advanced institutes are developing ELL teachers’ capacity to create classroom environments that support culturally mediated instruction. More ›

  AM16 Beyond “Show Me the Money”: Building Capacity for Site and Network Resilience
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon B - Texas Ballroom
  Learn how to find and strategically use the money that is available in the educational system for professional development—including state, district, and school funding from state and federal funding sources—to build local and collective capacity for your site or network. More ›

  PM2 Inquiry as Advocacy: Using Teacher Inquiry Communities to Promote Social Justice
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis B
  This session, hosted by the Teacher Inquiry Communities Network, will feature a variety of ways that sites have used teacher inquiry communities to promote social justice. More ›

  PM8 Reclaiming Portfolios for Teaching, Assessment, and Professional Development
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett A
  In a time of testing and accountability, how can writing project sites and networks of sites shift the professional development conversation from high-stakes tests to writing assessment? More ›

  PM15 Inquiry into Demonstrations
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon A - Texas Ballroom
  This workshop explores the role of inquiry in the examination of teacher practice in the summer invitational institute. More ›

  PM16 A Close Look at Writing with Young Children
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon B - Texas Ballroom
  Learn more about the writing of young children and how to support and strengthen early literacy development through writing. More ›

• Teaching Writing

• AM18 Writing in the Digital Age
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon D - Texas Ballroom
  After a brief discussion of the nature of literacy in the twenty-first century, teacher-consultants and technology liaisons from three sites will share what they are discovering about writing in digital environments through work in their classrooms, at their sites, and as part of the Technology Liaisons Network and/or the Technology Initiative. More ›

  PM6 Teachers as Writers, Writers as Teachers
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio B
  The Eastern Virginia Writing Project has embedded creative writing into its summer institute to assist teachers in practicing what they teach. More ›

  PM9 Building a Knowledge Base Through Inquiry into the Principles Supporting Inservice Programs
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett B
  This session invites you to engage in an inquiry into identifying the guiding principles that define sites’ work in schools; equipping teacher-consultants with models to deliver effective staff development programs; and establishing common understandings of the role of an NWP inservice provider. More ›

  PM16 A Close Look at Writing with Young Children
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon B - Texas Ballroom
  Learn more about the writing of young children and how to support and strengthen early literacy development through writing. More ›

  PM18 Beyond the “Workshop”: What Does Long-Term Partnership Work in Schools Look Like?
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon D - Texas Ballroom
  As sites engage in more sophisticated long-term partnerships with schools and districts, site leaders are developing an array of strategies to meet the professional development needs of teachers in their partner schools. More ›

• Technology

• AM9 Overcoming the Challenges of Distance: Collaborating Across 268,601 Square Miles
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett B
  Join us in a dialogue about how Texas sites utilize technology as a tool to gather together, collaborate remotely, and extend their work. More ›

  AM18 Writing in the Digital Age
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon D - Texas Ballroom
  After a brief discussion of the nature of literacy in the twenty-first century, teacher-consultants and technology liaisons from three sites will share what they are discovering about writing in digital environments through work in their classrooms, at their sites, and as part of the Technology Liaisons Network and/or the Technology Initiative. More ›

  AM19 Rethinking Reading for the Summer Institute
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon E - Texas Ballroom
  Participants in this workshop will take an inquiry stance to examine their site’s reading list and the summer institute structures that support those readings. More ›

  PM7 Thinking Strategically About Your Site’s Online Presence
  Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio C
  This hands-on workshop offers participants the chance to view their sites in a new way using tools and processes developed to support the annual NWP web presence planning retreat. More ›

  PM13 Technology Connections Make Site Successes
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic B
  This workshop will demonstrate how one site's capacity needs around technology led to the creation of a state tech network that continues to build upon the success of the existing state and regional networks. More ›

• Youth Family Community

• AM20 Reaping the Rewards of Working with Young Authors
  Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon F - Texas Ballroom
  This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to examine approaches to planning and organizing work with young writers and readers—and their parents. More ›