Thursday Breakout Session Topic Index

• Continuity

• B18 Special-Focus Networks Minigrants: Accessing Supplemental Funding to Grow Your Site Strategically
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 3
  Have you and others at your site been thinking about obtaining supplemental funding as an opportunity to grow your site? More ›

  B23 A Passion for Reading and Staying Connected
  Contemporary, Second Level, Atlantic A
  Invitational summer institutes are wonderful opportunities to read together and build social relationships. The NWP Book Group Ning is an exciting online resource for extending both the recreational and professional reading that take place in the invitational summer institutes. More ›

  C7 Building Capacity for Survivance: Writing Project Sites Support Indian Education
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom G
  Participants will explore the tangled place of writing in the histories of Native American peoples and the contemporary potential for writing to be the medium for dialogue between Native and non-Native cultures. More ›

• Digital Literacies

• A6 Fair Use of Copyrighted Media in the Classroom
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom F
  This session focuses on how students and teachers can responsibly repurpose copyrighted media in the classroom through an understanding of Fair Use doctrine. More ›

  A10 Reading the Research: Because Digital Writing Matters
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom K
  This Reading the Research session examines the book Because Digital Writing Matters, a companion to the National Writing Project’s Because Writing Matters. More ›

  A17 Digital Literacies Roundtable
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 2
  In this roundtable session, multiple presenters will share a range of innovative digital practices—from multimodal composing in the classroom, to working with families to explore the digital literacy practices of youth, to being a writer and learner in virtual worlds and communities. More ›

  A20 Reading the Research: Ethical Dimensions of Writing Online
  Contemporary, Second Level, Pacific
  This Reading the Research session examines research from the GoodPlay project at Harvard University along with related work and resources gathered by Common Sense Media, a media-support network for parents and caregivers. More ›

  B9 Building Video Games for and in the Classroom
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom J
  This session, which builds on the lunchtime presentation "Games for Education and Social Impact," will introduce specific platforms that help students and teachers alike make games to support learning in the classroom. More ›

  B17 Exploring Digital Portfolios and Digital Literacy in the Invitational Summer Institute
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 2
  In this interactive session, site leaders will share their work with a variety of digital literacies—including multigenre, multimodal digital portfolios and social networking platforms—and invite participants to explore implications and opportunities for the year-round work at their local sites. More ›

  C1 Small Moments: Supporting Language and Critical Thinking Development Through Digital Stories
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom A
  This workshop will explore narrative composed primarily by fourth grade English language learners in an urban school environment. Participants will experience and respond to the students' narratives, designing ways that their own Writing Project site can support teachers who wish to engage in similar work. More ›

  C13 Digital Writing and Assessment: Pushing the Boundaries of How We Talk About Text
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom N
  Led by members of the Multimodal Assessment Project, this session invites us to explore how our common ways of talking about what we value, as expressed in common writing rubrics and frameworks, extend to the new digital composition projects that we increasingly bring into our writing classrooms. More ›

  C14 Visual Literacies
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom P
  What skills are necessary for 21st-century students to succeed? How can arts-integrated study support learning in a digital, multimodal world? More ›

  C20 Web 3.0: Providing Writing Project Access Across Geographic Boundaries
  Contemporary, Second Level, Pacific
  Participants will examine solutions that provide Writing Project access and programs to rural teachers when participation is hampered by geographic barriers. More ›

  C23 Taking Gaming to the Next Level
  Contemporary, Second Level, Atlantic A
  Learn more about the new literacies of game play in this session, including game "modding" (modifying) and game design. More ›

  G9 Games for Education and Social Impact
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom J
  Alan Gershenfeld is founder and president of E-Line Media, which has helped build some of the world's leading game and digital comic franchises and which supports social entrepreneurs committed to harnessing popular media for impact. More ›

• Diversity/Equity

• A14 Inquiry into Action: How Site Self-Study Results in Increased Access, Relevance, and Diversity
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom M
  This session examines how a deliberate inquiry into a Writing Project site's mission, service area, programs, and practices results in important changes and growth. More ›

  A19 Acknowledging Issues in Special Education and Supporting the Learning of Special-Needs Students
  Contemporary, Main Level, Pastoral 1
  

  Learn what a teacher-researcher discovers as she looks at the issues related to: the process of identification and placement of African American students in special education; the parents' perception of their role in that process; and the implications for today's classrooms. More ›

  B2 Teacher Activism and the Antihomophobic Classroom
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom B
  Share your resources, successes, and challenges and learn what others are doing to make the classroom a place where homophobia is addressed openly and strategically. More ›

  C5 Raising Voices Silenced by History: Using Primary Source Documents
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom E
  This workshop will engage participants in the use of primary source documents (such as historic photographs and eyewitness accounts) to revisit the history of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, construct persuasive essays about reparations to victims and survivors, and develop a framework for classroom inquiry into the implications of "omissions" from traditional textbooks. Teachers and inservice coordinators will find this session beneficial. More ›

  C7 Building Capacity for Survivance: Writing Project Sites Support Indian Education
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom G
  Participants will explore the tangled place of writing in the histories of Native American peoples and the contemporary potential for writing to be the medium for dialogue between Native and non-Native cultures. More ›

  C9 Unique Youth Writing Programs for Diverse Populations
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom J
  Come share ideas for youth writing programs with four dynamic teachers who carved out time and methods for creating writing opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds. More ›

  C11 Rural Voices and a Critical Consciousness of Place
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom L&M
  Participants will consider issues of critical literacy—the ability to question and actively analyze texts—and how these issues relate to our students, our teaching practice, our rural school communities, and the Writing Project sites that serve them. More ›

• English Language Learners

• A2 Writing with Beginning English Learners and Their Families
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom B
  This interactive session focuses on programs that showcase the importance of writing for beginning English learners and their families. More ›

  A9 NWP at Work Beyond the U.S.A.
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom J
  Join us for a conversation with colleagues from NWP’s Associated International Sites and those holding institutes and doing work in locations outside of the United States. More ›

  B5 Integrating Professional Development and Student Learning
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom E
  Participants in this workshop will learn how one site developed an open institute that fostered learning partnerships between teachers and ELL students. More ›

  C1 Small Moments: Supporting Language and Critical Thinking Development Through Digital Stories
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom A
  This workshop will explore narrative composed primarily by fourth grade English language learners in an urban school environment. Participants will experience and respond to the students' narratives, designing ways that their own Writing Project site can support teachers who wish to engage in similar work. More ›

• Evaluation/Documentation

• A16 What LSRI Sites Have Learned About What Works with Kids
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 1
  This session will focus on what sites have learned about teaching writing from their LSRI research. The facilitators will actively engage participants in strategies they have found to be effective. More ›

  B4 Study the History of Your Site or State Network
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom D
  Using the tools and protocols of the NWP Early History Study, we will invite participants to design a study of their own site or their state network. More ›

  C8 Improving and Assessing Students’ Analytical Writing
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom H
  For a decade, teachers in the California Writing Project’s statewide program, Improving Students’ Analytical Writing, have studied how to improve the teaching and learning of analytical writing. We will share lessons learned, instructional resources, and a powerful assessment tool—the ISAW Analytical Writing Improvement Continuum. More ›

  C16 Prompting for Meaningful Student Writing
  Contemporary, Second Level, Ballroom of the Americas B
  Good writing prompts—whether for timed writing or for carefully scaffolded writing—significantly affect the quality of student writing. We will discuss ideas for creating effective writing invitations for various purposes. More ›

  C22 Using Site Profile Data for Strategic Planning and Inquiry
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic D
  Join a group of colleagues in thinking about how to use site data to support reflection on current practice, develop leadership, and inform your site's work. More ›

• Funding

• A5 Partnership Designs Based on Mutual Interests and Needs
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom E
  This session spotlights methods for designing and sustaining inservice partnerships. Leaders from a developing site and a mature site suggest ways their programs address local concerns while embedding elements of NWP’s proven theory and practice. More ›

  B11 Site Leaders and School Administrators Collaborating to Develop Inservice
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic C
  This interactive session will consider how site leaders work with administrators to design and deliver professional development that meets the needs of students, teachers, schools, and districts. More ›

  B18 Special-Focus Networks Minigrants: Accessing Supplemental Funding to Grow Your Site Strategically
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 3
  Have you and others at your site been thinking about obtaining supplemental funding as an opportunity to grow your site? More ›

• Gaming

• B9 Building Video Games for and in the Classroom
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom J
  This session, which builds on the lunchtime presentation "Games for Education and Social Impact," will introduce specific platforms that help students and teachers alike make games to support learning in the classroom. More ›

  C23 Taking Gaming to the Next Level
  Contemporary, Second Level, Atlantic A
  Learn more about the new literacies of game play in this session, including game "modding" (modifying) and game design. More ›

  G9 Games for Education and Social Impact
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom J
  Alan Gershenfeld is founder and president of E-Line Media, which has helped build some of the world's leading game and digital comic franchises and which supports social entrepreneurs committed to harnessing popular media for impact. More ›

• New/Pre-Service Teachers

• B14 Nurturing Our Newest Colleagues: Exploring Site Work with New and Preservice Teachers
  Contemporary, Mail Level, Fantasia Ballroom P&Q
  Join us in exploring the work of four Writing Project sites that have worked with new and/or preservice teachers. More ›

• Professional Development

• A2 Writing with Beginning English Learners and Their Families
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom B
  This interactive session focuses on programs that showcase the importance of writing for beginning English learners and their families. More ›

  A5 Partnership Designs Based on Mutual Interests and Needs
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom E
  This session spotlights methods for designing and sustaining inservice partnerships. Leaders from a developing site and a mature site suggest ways their programs address local concerns while embedding elements of NWP’s proven theory and practice. More ›

  A11 Taking Charge of Inservice
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom L
  This workshop will feature strategies for establishing and maintaining productive relationships with teachers and administrators. More ›

  B3 More Than Assessment: Our Analytic Writing Continuum at Work for Sites
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom C
  NWP's Analytic Writing Continuum (AWC) can be a centerpiece for classroom inquiry and professional development. In this session, you will interact with site leaders/teachers who have used the AWC as a basis for analyzing and learning about student writing. More ›

  B5 Integrating Professional Development and Student Learning
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom E
  Participants in this workshop will learn how one site developed an open institute that fostered learning partnerships between teachers and ELL students. More ›

  B7 Sustained Professional Development for Community College Faculty
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom G
  This session examines the benefits of Writing Project sites’ investments in sustained professional development with community college faculty. More ›

  B8 Inservice and School Partnerships Through Year-Round Programs
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom H
  Session facilitators and participants will look at avenues for engaging and sustaining teacher-leaders and school partnerships within their local context. More ›

  B11 Site Leaders and School Administrators Collaborating to Develop Inservice
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic C
  This interactive session will consider how site leaders work with administrators to design and deliver professional development that meets the needs of students, teachers, schools, and districts. More ›

  B12 Putting the “Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing” into Action
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom L&M
  This session updates participants on the collaborative statement from the National Writing Project, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Writing Program Administrators titled "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing." More ›

  B16 Keeping It Relevant: Reimagining Inservice to Meet Site and Service Area Needs
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 1
  This interactive workshop explores how Writing Project sites adapt to the constantly changing educational landscape. More ›

  B20 Partnerships: Sustaining Long-Term Work with Schools
  Contemporary, Second Level, Pacific
  Many NWP sites are developing long-term partnerships with schools, resulting in stronger impact for teacher-centered professional development. More ›

  B23 A Passion for Reading and Staying Connected
  Contemporary, Second Level, Atlantic A
  Invitational summer institutes are wonderful opportunities to read together and build social relationships. The NWP Book Group Ning is an exciting online resource for extending both the recreational and professional reading that take place in the invitational summer institutes. More ›

  C2 Scaling Up Inservice to Serve a City
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom B
  Site leaders will explore ways to grow a citywide presence, including an embedded writing coach model, a collaborative summer institute, and a workshop series featuring teacher-consultants, site leaders, and published authors. More ›

  C19 Preparing New Leaders for Inservice—Starting in the Invitational Summer Institute
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom K
  Participants will consider the ways readings, discussions, demonstration coaching, study groups, and a spring conference connect new fellows to the Writing Project and build pathways to inservice work while the Summer Institute is taking place. More ›

• Publishing

• A21 Research Matters: Finding the Synergies Between Writing Project Work and Faculty Research Agendas
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic C
  How can junior faculty involved in Writing Project work pursue their research agendas? More ›

  B10 Student Publishing: Students Writing for Real Audiences
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom K
  In this session we'll investigate three teacher-consultants' work with student publishing and explore how such experience might be developed at Writing Project sites. More ›

• Research

• A21 Research Matters: Finding the Synergies Between Writing Project Work and Faculty Research Agendas
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic C
  How can junior faculty involved in Writing Project work pursue their research agendas? More ›

• Rural Education

• C11 Rural Voices and a Critical Consciousness of Place
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom L&M
  Participants will consider issues of critical literacy—the ability to question and actively analyze texts—and how these issues relate to our students, our teaching practice, our rural school communities, and the Writing Project sites that serve them. More ›

  C20 Web 3.0: Providing Writing Project Access Across Geographic Boundaries
  Contemporary, Second Level, Pacific
  Participants will examine solutions that provide Writing Project access and programs to rural teachers when participation is hampered by geographic barriers. More ›

• Site Leadership

• A13 Investing Strategically to Build Site Capacity
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom N
  How can sites build the capacity to meet the needs of their service areas by making strategic investments in people, programs, resources, and relationships? More ›

  A14 Inquiry into Action: How Site Self-Study Results in Increased Access, Relevance, and Diversity
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom M
  This session examines how a deliberate inquiry into a Writing Project site's mission, service area, programs, and practices results in important changes and growth. More ›

  A18 Organizing and Prioritizing the Work of State and Regional Networks
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 3
  Roundtable discussions will provide strategies and resources for: (1) developing focused, fundable State and Regional Networks minigrant proposals, (2) sharing site knowledge to spur network development, (3) organizing and delegating network activities and responsibilities, (4) using technology as a tool for network growth, and (5) naming the work and building the capacity to complete it. More ›

  B13 Leading and Learning Together: Site Leadership Teams Planning and Designing the Work of the Site
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom N
  In this interactive session, participants will experience examples of team approaches to support leadership teams as they envision and plan for the work of the site. More ›

  B16 Keeping It Relevant: Reimagining Inservice to Meet Site and Service Area Needs
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 1
  This interactive workshop explores how Writing Project sites adapt to the constantly changing educational landscape. More ›

  C4 K–12 Writing Centers: Transforming Students, Schools, and Sites
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom D
  Join teacher-consultants and other site leaders from urban, suburban and rural districts in an engaging exploration and exchange of triumphs, challenges, models, and resources found in student-led writing centers, which have been known to transform the writing lives of the students who use them and the tutors who work in them, the writing culture of the schools that have them, and the capacities of NWP sites that recognize the power in them. More ›

  C6 Leadership Transitions: Making Your Way as a New Site Director
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom F
  This interactive session, facilitated by leaders from two sites that have recently undergone leadership transitions, will engage participants in reading, writing, and discussion to explore the work of leading an NWP site and the challenges and opportunities that new directors face as they take over the leadership of existing NWP sites. More ›

  C21 Site Sustainability: Exploring Issues and Approaches
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic C
  This workshop will provide time for site directors and principal investigators of the NWP site grant to engage in collaborative inquiry into the current business challenges facing their sites. More ›

  C22 Using Site Profile Data for Strategic Planning and Inquiry
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic D
  Join a group of colleagues in thinking about how to use site data to support reflection on current practice, develop leadership, and inform your site's work. More ›

• Site Management/Reporting

• A13 Investing Strategically to Build Site Capacity
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom N
  How can sites build the capacity to meet the needs of their service areas by making strategic investments in people, programs, resources, and relationships? More ›

  A18 Organizing and Prioritizing the Work of State and Regional Networks
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 3
  Roundtable discussions will provide strategies and resources for: (1) developing focused, fundable State and Regional Networks minigrant proposals, (2) sharing site knowledge to spur network development, (3) organizing and delegating network activities and responsibilities, (4) using technology as a tool for network growth, and (5) naming the work and building the capacity to complete it. More ›

  B11 Site Leaders and School Administrators Collaborating to Develop Inservice
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic C
  This interactive session will consider how site leaders work with administrators to design and deliver professional development that meets the needs of students, teachers, schools, and districts. More ›

  C6 Leadership Transitions: Making Your Way as a New Site Director
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom F
  This interactive session, facilitated by leaders from two sites that have recently undergone leadership transitions, will engage participants in reading, writing, and discussion to explore the work of leading an NWP site and the challenges and opportunities that new directors face as they take over the leadership of existing NWP sites. More ›

  C21 Site Sustainability: Exploring Issues and Approaches
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic C
  This workshop will provide time for site directors and principal investigators of the NWP site grant to engage in collaborative inquiry into the current business challenges facing their sites. More ›

• Summer Institute

• A4 Inquiry from the Start: Rethinking Teaching Demonstrations in the Invitational Summer Institute
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom D
  Teaching demonstrations have always been at the heart of invitational summer institutes. Teacher inquiry has become central to the work of sites. What are the intersections between the two? More ›

  A8 The Invitational Summer Institute: Exploring the Heart of the NWP Model
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom H
  In an interactive session, two site leaders will share strategies designed to help sites contextualize these essential NWP elements while at the same time honoring their uniqueness as an NWP site. More ›

  A23 Reading in the Invitational Summer Institute
  Contemporary, Second Level, Atlantic A
  This interactive session will invite participants to examine the role of reading in the invitational summer institute and explore the connections among reading, writing, and the development of teacher demonstrations. More ›

  B17 Exploring Digital Portfolios and Digital Literacy in the Invitational Summer Institute
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 2
  In this interactive session, site leaders will share their work with a variety of digital literacies—including multigenre, multimodal digital portfolios and social networking platforms—and invite participants to explore implications and opportunities for the year-round work at their local sites. More ›

  C19 Preparing New Leaders for Inservice—Starting in the Invitational Summer Institute
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom K
  Participants will consider the ways readings, discussions, demonstration coaching, study groups, and a spring conference connect new fellows to the Writing Project and build pathways to inservice work while the Summer Institute is taking place. More ›

• Teacher Inquiry

• A3 Teaching as a Political Act
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom C
  Participants will collaborate in an investigation of such questions as What does it mean to conduct teacher inquiry as a political act? More ›

  A4 Inquiry from the Start: Rethinking Teaching Demonstrations in the Invitational Summer Institute
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom D
  Teaching demonstrations have always been at the heart of invitational summer institutes. Teacher inquiry has become central to the work of sites. What are the intersections between the two? More ›

  B1 Making Practice Visible in Inquiry Using DIVER
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom A
  Are you looking for new ways to capture your work in order to inquire into it? More ›

  B3 More Than Assessment: Our Analytic Writing Continuum at Work for Sites
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom C
  NWP's Analytic Writing Continuum (AWC) can be a centerpiece for classroom inquiry and professional development. In this session, you will interact with site leaders/teachers who have used the AWC as a basis for analyzing and learning about student writing. More ›

  C3 Reading the Research: In Living Conversation
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom C
  After reading two short chapters of a forthcoming book by longtime practitioner-researcher Bob Fecho, participants will use a jigsaw activity to focus discussion on what it means to bring a dialogical perspective to classroom practice. More ›

• Teaching Reading

• A7 Reading the Research: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom G
  In this Reading the Research session participants will get a chance to read, write about, and discuss a recent report released by the Carnegie Corporation and the Alliance for Excellent Education Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading. More ›

  A23 Reading in the Invitational Summer Institute
  Contemporary, Second Level, Atlantic A
  This interactive session will invite participants to examine the role of reading in the invitational summer institute and explore the connections among reading, writing, and the development of teacher demonstrations. More ›

• Teaching Writing

• A6 Fair Use of Copyrighted Media in the Classroom
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom F
  This session focuses on how students and teachers can responsibly repurpose copyrighted media in the classroom through an understanding of Fair Use doctrine. More ›

  A7 Reading the Research: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom G
  In this Reading the Research session participants will get a chance to read, write about, and discuss a recent report released by the Carnegie Corporation and the Alliance for Excellent Education Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading. More ›

  A10 Reading the Research: Because Digital Writing Matters
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom K
  This Reading the Research session examines the book Because Digital Writing Matters, a companion to the National Writing Project’s Because Writing Matters. More ›

  A15 Responding to the Common Core: An Introduction to the Literacy Design Collaborative
  Contemporary, Mail Level, Fantasia Ballroom P&Q
  Join the NWP as we explore the national conversation about how to richly enact the common core standards. More ›

  A16 What LSRI Sites Have Learned About What Works with Kids
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 1
  This session will focus on what sites have learned about teaching writing from their LSRI research. The facilitators will actively engage participants in strategies they have found to be effective. More ›

  A17 Digital Literacies Roundtable
  Contemporary, Main Level, Nutcracker Ballroom 2
  In this roundtable session, multiple presenters will share a range of innovative digital practices—from multimodal composing in the classroom, to working with families to explore the digital literacy practices of youth, to being a writer and learner in virtual worlds and communities. More ›

  A19 Acknowledging Issues in Special Education and Supporting the Learning of Special-Needs Students
  Contemporary, Main Level, Pastoral 1
  

  Learn what a teacher-researcher discovers as she looks at the issues related to: the process of identification and placement of African American students in special education; the parents' perception of their role in that process; and the implications for today's classrooms. More ›

  A20 Reading the Research: Ethical Dimensions of Writing Online
  Contemporary, Second Level, Pacific
  This Reading the Research session examines research from the GoodPlay project at Harvard University along with related work and resources gathered by Common Sense Media, a media-support network for parents and caregivers. More ›

  A22 Where Next in the Teaching of Writing?
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic D
  We will use selected results from the National Study of Writing Instruction to open a discussion of critical issues in learning to write for the core subject areas in middle and high school. More ›

  B6 Reading the Research: A Taste of Ernest Morrell's Work—Linking Literacy and Popular Culture
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom F
  This Reading the Research session will examine a chapter from Ernest Morrell's book Linking Literacy and Popular Culture. More ›

  B22 Transitional Conversations: Connecting Writing in High School and College
  Contemporary, Second Level, Grand Republic D
  Teachers in high schools, community colleges, and universities need opportunities for conversation about teaching writing across these transitional years in students' lives. More ›

  C4 K–12 Writing Centers: Transforming Students, Schools, and Sites
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom D
  Join teacher-consultants and other site leaders from urban, suburban and rural districts in an engaging exploration and exchange of triumphs, challenges, models, and resources found in student-led writing centers, which have been known to transform the writing lives of the students who use them and the tutors who work in them, the writing culture of the schools that have them, and the capacities of NWP sites that recognize the power in them. More ›

  C5 Raising Voices Silenced by History: Using Primary Source Documents
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom E
  This workshop will engage participants in the use of primary source documents (such as historic photographs and eyewitness accounts) to revisit the history of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, construct persuasive essays about reparations to victims and survivors, and develop a framework for classroom inquiry into the implications of "omissions" from traditional textbooks. Teachers and inservice coordinators will find this session beneficial. More ›

  C8 Improving and Assessing Students’ Analytical Writing
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom H
  For a decade, teachers in the California Writing Project’s statewide program, Improving Students’ Analytical Writing, have studied how to improve the teaching and learning of analytical writing. We will share lessons learned, instructional resources, and a powerful assessment tool—the ISAW Analytical Writing Improvement Continuum. More ›

  C13 Digital Writing and Assessment: Pushing the Boundaries of How We Talk About Text
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom N
  Led by members of the Multimodal Assessment Project, this session invites us to explore how our common ways of talking about what we value, as expressed in common writing rubrics and frameworks, extend to the new digital composition projects that we increasingly bring into our writing classrooms. More ›

  C16 Prompting for Meaningful Student Writing
  Contemporary, Second Level, Ballroom of the Americas B
  Good writing prompts—whether for timed writing or for carefully scaffolded writing—significantly affect the quality of student writing. We will discuss ideas for creating effective writing invitations for various purposes. More ›

• Technology

• B1 Making Practice Visible in Inquiry Using DIVER
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom A
  Are you looking for new ways to capture your work in order to inquire into it? More ›

• University/Public Relations

• A1 Advocating for Your Writing Project Site
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom A
  Join us for a session on the importance of teacher advocacy and learn how this work can be an opportunity to build leadership at your site. More ›

  C15 Harry Potter's Lessons for Making the Most of Your University Partnership
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom Q
  In this interactive session, two associate deans will adapt lessons from the Harry Potter books for Writing Project sites to use to guide their relationship with their host university. More ›

• Urban Education

• B6 Reading the Research: A Taste of Ernest Morrell's Work—Linking Literacy and Popular Culture
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom F
  This Reading the Research session will examine a chapter from Ernest Morrell's book Linking Literacy and Popular Culture. More ›

  C14 Visual Literacies
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom P
  What skills are necessary for 21st-century students to succeed? How can arts-integrated study support learning in a digital, multimodal world? More ›

• Youth Family Community

• B8 Inservice and School Partnerships Through Year-Round Programs
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom H
  Session facilitators and participants will look at avenues for engaging and sustaining teacher-leaders and school partnerships within their local context. More ›

  B10 Student Publishing: Students Writing for Real Audiences
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom K
  In this session we'll investigate three teacher-consultants' work with student publishing and explore how such experience might be developed at Writing Project sites. More ›

  C9 Unique Youth Writing Programs for Diverse Populations
  Contemporary, Main Level, Fantasia Ballroom J
  Come share ideas for youth writing programs with four dynamic teachers who carved out time and methods for creating writing opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds. More ›