Thursday Site Development Workshop Topic Index

• Continuity

• AM2 Visioning Retreats as a Strategy for Site Development
  Sheraton, Lobby Level, Logans 2
  Leaders of two sites that have come to see visioning retreats as a key continuity strategy will share their stories in this interactive session. More ›

  AM16 Leadership Development in the Early Years
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence D
  Leaders from two NWP sites will frame this hands-on workshop with the stories and strategies of leadership development in the early years of their sites that established the foundation and capacity to support year-round continuity and inservice. More ›

  PM1 Leadership Transitions: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities
  Sheraton, Lobby Level, Logans 1
  This interactive workshop will invite participants from sites facing leadership transitions to explore the challenges as well as the opportunities that these pivotal moments present: to revisit the site's goals and mission, to reorganize and reinvigorate its leadership, and to refine and reaffirm a sense of its work. More ›

  PM2 Overcoming the Challenges of Organizing a Professional Writing Retreat
  Sheraton, Lobby Level, Logans 2
  The teacher-consultants and site directors on this panel have put together successful writing retreats despite challenges at the local level, such as busy teachers and minimal budgets. More ›

  PM4 Advanced Institutes to Support Inservice
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Philadelphia South
  Site leaders from San Diego and Vermont will demonstrate the processes and structures they create to bring teacher-consultants into leadership of professional development programs in their service areas. More ›

  PM16 Developing Collaborative Leadership: How and Why
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence D
  Three sites from NWP's Project Outreach initiative will show how they changed their leadership structure to increase access to writing project services, improve the relevance of their programs, and develop strategies to diversify their leadership. More ›

  PM18 Designing Advanced Institutes for Change
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom F
  This session examines the ways that advanced institutes can chart the growth and direction of a writing project site. More ›

• Diversity/Equity

• AM3 Language and Dialect Diversity in the Writing Classroom
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Philadelphia North
  This session invites participants to explore the value of language diversity in the classroom. More ›

  AM5 Giving Diversity a Voice in Rural Sites
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salons 3 & 4
  Using data from a variety of sources, participants will engage in interactive problem solving of the common difficulties faced by rural sites seeking to develop a more diverse writing project community. More ›

  AM8 Keeping the Focus on Writing in the Upper Elementary and Middle School Grades
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salon 10
  Three teachers from different locales will share how they use a writing workshop approach to preserve and protect writing for students of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and talents. More ›

  AM22 Using Wikis to Promote Authentic and Collaborative Writing Among ESL Students in Hong Kong
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salon 9
  This interactive session will focus on a project investigating authentic and collaborative writing through the use of wikis by Year 7 ESL learners in Hong Kong. More ›

  PM3 Pinpointing Promise: Looking Closely at the Writing of English Language Learners
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Philadelphia North
  Join the Heart of Texas Writing Project and the UCLA Writing Project as we share our inquiry group work. Together we’ll take a careful look at our primary and secondary students’ writing and articulate what’s promising as well as possible next steps. More ›

  PM5 Resiliency and Reform: Strange Bedfellows in an Era of High Stakes
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salons 3 & 4
  Teachers in both rural and urban schools have participated in resiliency initiatives and have found in many cases that intentionality is worth its weight in gold for increasing student achievement. More ›

  PM14 Recruiting for the Invitational Summer Institute
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence B
  Just as a successful invitational summer institute is key to the vitality of an NWP site, so, too, is successful recruitment key to the vitality of the summer institute. More ›

  PM18 Designing Advanced Institutes for Change
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom F
  This session examines the ways that advanced institutes can chart the growth and direction of a writing project site. More ›

  PM19 Building Community in the Summer Institute of the East Asia Writing Project
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom G
  A movable feast, the East Asia Writing Project summer institute is offered in a different country each summer to extend access to the NWP model of professional development to K–12 teachers across Asia. More ›

  PM20 Immersion Experience Strengthens ELL Practices and Builds Site Capacity
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom H
  Immersion experience can be a powerful way to develop understanding and empathy in foreign settings. More ›

• English Language Learners

• PM3 Pinpointing Promise: Looking Closely at the Writing of English Language Learners
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Philadelphia North
  Join the Heart of Texas Writing Project and the UCLA Writing Project as we share our inquiry group work. Together we’ll take a careful look at our primary and secondary students’ writing and articulate what’s promising as well as possible next steps. More ›

  PM20 Immersion Experience Strengthens ELL Practices and Builds Site Capacity
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom H
  Immersion experience can be a powerful way to develop understanding and empathy in foreign settings. More ›

• Evaluation/Documentation

• AM4 Research: Developing Evaluations of Your Programs
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Philadelphia South
  If you are thinking seriously about program evaluation, whether for LSRI VI or otherwise, this session is for you. More ›

  PM23 Using Site Profile Data for Strategic Planning and Inquiry
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom H
  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 ›

• Rural Education

• AM5 Giving Diversity a Voice in Rural Sites
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salons 3 & 4
  Using data from a variety of sources, participants will engage in interactive problem solving of the common difficulties faced by rural sites seeking to develop a more diverse writing project community. More ›

  AM14 Special-Focus Network Minigrants: Accessing Supplemental Funding to Grow Your Site Strategically
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence B
  Have you and others at your site been thinking about obtaining supplemental funding as an opportunity to grow your site? More ›

  AM17 Writing Project Programs at the Community College
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom E
  This session takes a look at how three writing project sites created long-term relationships with community colleges in their service area. More ›

  AM23 Organizing and Prioritizing the Work of State and Regional Networks
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom F
  Participating in state or regional networks enhances the visibility of sites and may enable them to do work together that they cannot do alone. More ›

  PM5 Resiliency and Reform: Strange Bedfellows in an Era of High Stakes
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salons 3 & 4
  Teachers in both rural and urban schools have participated in resiliency initiatives and have found in many cases that intentionality is worth its weight in gold for increasing student achievement. More ›

• Site Management/Reporting

• AM1 Strategic Planning Before, During, and After Leadership Transitions
  Sheraton, Lobby Level, Logans 1
  This interactive workshop is designed for leaders of sites that have recently undergone a leadership transition, are in the midst of one, or are anticipating a transition. More ›

  AM14 Special-Focus Network Minigrants: Accessing Supplemental Funding to Grow Your Site Strategically
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence B
  Have you and others at your site been thinking about obtaining supplemental funding as an opportunity to grow your site? More ›

  AM23 Organizing and Prioritizing the Work of State and Regional Networks
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom F
  Participating in state or regional networks enhances the visibility of sites and may enable them to do work together that they cannot do alone. More ›

  AM25 Maintaining University Relationships in a Time of Economic Struggle
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom H
  Participants in this workshop will experience techniques designed to strengthen their local site’s presence in their host university. More ›

  PM1 Leadership Transitions: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities
  Sheraton, Lobby Level, Logans 1
  This interactive workshop will invite participants from sites facing leadership transitions to explore the challenges as well as the opportunities that these pivotal moments present: to revisit the site's goals and mission, to reorganize and reinvigorate its leadership, and to refine and reaffirm a sense of its work. More ›

  PM10 Site Development in the Early Years from Invitational Summer Institute to Continuity to Inservice
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom B
  In this hands-on workshop, leaders from two NWP sites will share the stories of their sites’ development during the first five years along with the lessons they learned along the way. More ›

  PM23 Using Site Profile Data for Strategic Planning and Inquiry
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom H
  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 ›

• Summer Institute

• AM10 The Invitational Summer Institute: Recruiting and Developing Teacher-Leaders
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom B
  This workshop will explore how two sites recruit excellent teachers and support them during the summer institute. More ›

  AM18 Reading in the Summer Institute: Responding to the Needs of the Service Area
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salon 9
  Strategic uses of readings in the summer institute support conversations and learning that are relevant to teachers’ students and school settings. More ›

  PM10 Site Development in the Early Years from Invitational Summer Institute to Continuity to Inservice
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom B
  In this hands-on workshop, leaders from two NWP sites will share the stories of their sites’ development during the first five years along with the lessons they learned along the way. More ›

  PM14 Recruiting for the Invitational Summer Institute
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence B
  Just as a successful invitational summer institute is key to the vitality of an NWP site, so, too, is successful recruitment key to the vitality of the summer institute. More ›

  PM19 Building Community in the Summer Institute of the East Asia Writing Project
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom G
  A movable feast, the East Asia Writing Project summer institute is offered in a different country each summer to extend access to the NWP model of professional development to K–12 teachers across Asia. More ›

• Teacher Inquiry

• AM15 Developing Ourselves: Teacher Inquiry as Professional Development
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence C
  Presenters from different writing project sites will describe the varied ways that they have implemented teacher inquiry as an alternative to traditional professional development. More ›

  PM8 Using Inquiry Groups to Address Burning Questions About School Relationships
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salon 10
  A panel of teacher-consultants from three urban writing projects will discuss a process they used in their inquiry groups to surface pressing challenges to their relationships with students, parents, administrators, and others. More ›

  PM15 Embedding Professional Development, Professional Community, and Writing Assessment in the Work of Teaching
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence C
  This session highlights how two writing project sites embed professional learning and community at the school level: the Bay Area Writing Project through its Writing Proficiency Program, and the Rhode Island Writing Project through its Embedded Institutes. More ›

• Teaching Writing

• AM3 Language and Dialect Diversity in the Writing Classroom
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Philadelphia North
  This session invites participants to explore the value of language diversity in the classroom. More ›

  AM8 Keeping the Focus on Writing in the Upper Elementary and Middle School Grades
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salon 10
  Three teachers from different locales will share how they use a writing workshop approach to preserve and protect writing for students of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and talents. More ›

  AM9 Writing in the Digital Age: Learning Environments and Student Writing
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom A
  This workshop explores the evolving nature of writing and literacy today. More ›

  AM19 "Remix": A New Literacy Practice
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom F
  Remixing is the art and craft of writing through the mixing of different and often disparate source texts, whether they be images, sounds, movies, or conventional text. More ›

  AM24 Digital Storytelling Across Content Areas and for Every Student
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom G
  This session will examine the possibilities and power of digital storytelling in unlikely environments such as primary classrooms, classes of at-risk students, and content area classrooms. More ›

  PM13 Connecting Writing in High School and College
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence A
  Often a mismatch of assumptions about writing makes the transition from high school to college difficult for students. More ›

  PM21 21st Century Literacy and the Graphic Novel
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom F
  This session will focus on the prevalence and permanence of the graphic novel. More ›

• Technology

• AM9 Writing in the Digital Age: Learning Environments and Student Writing
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom A
  This workshop explores the evolving nature of writing and literacy today. More ›

  AM19 "Remix": A New Literacy Practice
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom F
  Remixing is the art and craft of writing through the mixing of different and often disparate source texts, whether they be images, sounds, movies, or conventional text. More ›

  AM20 Putting Technology at the Center of Partnerships
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom G
  This session will ask the question “What happens when technology is at the center of partnership work? More ›

  AM22 Using Wikis to Promote Authentic and Collaborative Writing Among ESL Students in Hong Kong
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salon 9
  This interactive session will focus on a project investigating authentic and collaborative writing through the use of wikis by Year 7 ESL learners in Hong Kong. More ›

  AM24 Digital Storytelling Across Content Areas and for Every Student
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom G
  This session will examine the possibilities and power of digital storytelling in unlikely environments such as primary classrooms, classes of at-risk students, and content area classrooms. More ›

  PM12 Integrating New Literacies into Classroom Practice and the Resulting Impact on Site Leadership
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom D
  How can a site create a bridge between individual teacher-leaders’ interests in technology and the site’s development of leadership capacity in the area of technology and literacy? More ›

  PM17 Examining Core Work Through Development of an Online Presence
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom E
  Examining a site’s work through the lens of its online presence can open a new window into its core work, priorities, and goals. More ›

• University/Public Relations

• AM6 Advocating for Your Writing Project Site
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salons 5 & 6
  Join us for a session on increasing your site’s visibility and fostering valuable relationships with a variety of audiences—media, administrators, legislators, and others. More ›

  AM11 Developing Site and Network Capacity in Spite of Fiscal Uncertainty
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom C
  Participate in an inquiry into new national education initiatives, mandates, and funding priorities. More ›

  AM25 Maintaining University Relationships in a Time of Economic Struggle
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom H
  Participants in this workshop will experience techniques designed to strengthen their local site’s presence in their host university. More ›

• Urban Education

• AM14 Special-Focus Network Minigrants: Accessing Supplemental Funding to Grow Your Site Strategically
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence B
  Have you and others at your site been thinking about obtaining supplemental funding as an opportunity to grow your site? More ›

  AM17 Writing Project Programs at the Community College
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom E
  This session takes a look at how three writing project sites created long-term relationships with community colleges in their service area. More ›

  AM23 Organizing and Prioritizing the Work of State and Regional Networks
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom F
  Participating in state or regional networks enhances the visibility of sites and may enable them to do work together that they cannot do alone. More ›

  PM5 Resiliency and Reform: Strange Bedfellows in an Era of High Stakes
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salons 3 & 4
  Teachers in both rural and urban schools have participated in resiliency initiatives and have found in many cases that intentionality is worth its weight in gold for increasing student achievement. More ›

  PM8 Using Inquiry Groups to Address Burning Questions About School Relationships
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salon 10
  A panel of teacher-consultants from three urban writing projects will discuss a process they used in their inquiry groups to surface pressing challenges to their relationships with students, parents, administrators, and others. More ›

  PM11 Ways In: Writing Project Sites Partnering with High Schools
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom C
  This workshop explores the shifting landscape of high school reform and the particular challenges and opportunities of working with high schools as partners. More ›

• Youth Family Community

• AM12 Creating and Implementing Young Writers' Workshops
  Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Liberty Ballroom D
  In this interactive session, teacher-consultants and others interested in developing and sustaining youth writing workshops will have the opportunity to share ideas with leaders from three sites with different approaches. More ›

  PM20 Immersion Experience Strengthens ELL Practices and Builds Site Capacity
  Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom H
  Immersion experience can be a powerful way to develop understanding and empathy in foreign settings. More ›