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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

PM6 Identity Matters: Examining the Role of Identity in Content Area Learning
Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Salons 5 & 6
Join a panel of content area teachers as well as leaders from the National Reading Initiative in a discussion of the role of identity in students' content area learning. 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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

PM22 Reading the Research: The Stanford Report on Professional Learning in the Learning Profession
Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom G
This session will offer participants an opportunity to engage with the February 2009 Stanford Report Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad, which examines what research has revealed about professional learning that improves teachers’ practice and student learning. 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 ›