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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

AM13 (Re)Building an Inservice Program
Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Independence A
In this session four sites will demonstrate how they designed programs to address challenges at their sites, such as revising programs, earning income to support the work of an inservice coordinator, ramping up site visibility, and addressing site and school needs after a natural disaster. 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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

AM21 Developing and Sustaining Partnerships: Making Them Come to You
Sheraton, Mezzanine Level, Freedom H
This session will outline the theory of action behind NWP at Rutgers University’s proposal and collaborative planning model for its school partnerships. 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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›