Annual Review Resource Guide

This collection of selected resources provides quick links to information about the work of leading an NWP site. Originally compiled for use by reviewers at the 2011 Annual Review, this set includes frequently-referenced articles and tools in the following categories:

• Invitational Summer Institute
• Continuity
• Inservice
• Youth and Community Programs
• Results
• Technology Integration
• Connecting to the NWP
• Directing a Writing Project Site

Invitational Summer Institute

• Recruiting and Selection

  • A Work in Progress: The Benefits of Early Recruitment for the Summer Institute by Anne-Marie Hall, Roger Shanley, and Flory Simon
  • Recruiting Diversity by Carol Tateishi
  • The Role of Early Recruitment in the Year-Round Work of a Site by Katherine Frank
  • Changing the Face of Leadership: Redesigning the Summer Institute to Invite Diversity by Katie Kline and Thomas Ferrel
  • NWP Radio: Invitations to the Invitational Summer Institute: Site Leaders Share Strategies for Recruiting

• Writing in the Summer Institute

  • A Thousand Writers Writing: Seeking Change through the Radical Practice of Writing as a Way of Being by Robert Yagelski
  • NWP Radio: Writing in the Summer Institute: Foundational Practice and Emergent Opportunities
  • Excerpts from Teaching the New Writing Edited by Anne Herrington, Kevin Hodgson and Charles Moran
  • Writing Equals Advocacy for West Texas Writing Project by Jonna Perrillo
  • Professional Writing in the SCWriP Summer Institute 2007 by Sheridan Blau
  • Blogging the Summer Institute by Bonnie Kaplan
  • Tweeting in the Summer Institute and Beyond by Grant Faulkner
  • The E-Anthology Says "Bienvenidos" to Spanish Posts
  • Book Review: Teachers' Writing Groups: Collaborative Inquiry and Reflection for Professional Growth Sarah Robbins, George Seaman, Kathleen Blake Yancey, Dede Yow, eds. Reviewed by Caroline Griswold

• Reading and Research

  • Resources for Selecting Readings and Research for the Summer Institute
  • NWP Radio: Invitational Summer Institute: What Will your Site be Reading in the 2010 Summer Institute?
  • General Resources on the Teaching of Writing
  • ELL Library American Indian Reference/Resource "Must-Haves" by Michael Thompson and Laurie Smith

• Teacher Demonstrations

  • Digging Deeper: Teacher Inquiry in the Summer Institute Demonstration by Art Peterson
  • A Guide to Workshop Development and Coaching (PDF)
  • Toward a Scholarship of Teaching Practice: Contributions from NWP Teacher Inquiry Workshops by Patricia Lambert Stock

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Continuity

• NWP At Work Continuity Monographs

  • Supporting On-Site Teacher-Consultants: New York City Writing Project's Community of Learners by Ed Osterman
  • Continuity in the Rhode Island Writing Project: Keeping Teachers at the Center by Susan Ozbek, Marjorie Roemer, Keith Sanzen, and Susan Vander Does
  • Creating Spaces for Study and Action Under the Social Justice Umbrella by Faye Peitzman, Norma Mota-Altman, and Marlene Carter
  • The Philadelphia Writing Project's Leadership Inquiry Seminar: Continuity Linked to Site Mission and Local Context by Teri Hines, Vanessa Brown, and Bruce Bowers
  • Continuity-in-Action
  • Site Leaders Explore Continuity—Enacting the Culture of the NWP Model Year Round by Susan Connell Biggs
  • Resources from the NWP at Work Continuity Series
  • NWP Radio: Stayin' Alive – Staying Connected: What does Continuity Look Like at Your Sites?

• Teacher Writing and Research

  • Courageous Conversations: Meeting the Needs of Racially and Linguistically Diverse Students by Esperanza Chavez and Teresa Guerra
  • Viva la Revolución: Transforming Teaching and Assessing Student Writing through Collaborative Inquiry by Molly Fanning and Brigid Schmidt
  • Such Stuff as Writing Dreams Are Made Of: Technology in the Writing Retreat by Michelle Rogge Gannon
  • Navigating the Tensions in Designing a Professional Writing Retreat by Susan Martens-Baker and Robert Petrone
  • Teacher Inquiry Communities Network
  • Teacher Inquiry Publishing and Research Resources
  • Beyond Strategies: Teacher Practice, Writing Process, and the Influence of Inquiry by Anne Whitney, Sheridan Blau, Alison Bright, Rosemary Cabe, Tim Dewar, Jason Levin, Roseanne Macias, and Paul Rogers
  • Working Toward Equity by Linda Friedrich, Carol Tateishi, Tom Malarkey, Elizabeth Radin Simons, and Marty Williams

• Site Leadership/Teacher Leadership

  • The Challenge of Change: Growth Through Inquiry at the Western Massachusetts Writing Project by Susan Biggs, Kevin Hodgson, and Bruce Penniman
  • (Re)Visioning Site Work: Extending the Reach and Relevance of NWP Sites by J. Elaine White, Tom Pankiewicz, and Jane Frick
  • Site Structure
  • How Teachers Become Leaders by Ann Lieberman and Linda D. Friedrich

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Inservice

• School-Year Programs
• School Partnerships
• Developing and Sustaining Long-Term School Partnerships (links to multiple resources)
• Open Programs
• NWP at Work: Models of Inservice
• NWP Radio: Inservice at NWP Sites in 2010

Selected Inservice Programs

• Study Groups Build Community in Vermont Site's Inservice Offerings
• Integrating Writing Project Practices into a Mandated Program by Bob Fecho
• Writing Project Partners with Denver High School for Six Years and Counting by Elizabeth Radin Simons
• School Partnership Leads to "Exciting Writing Week" in Little Rock by Elizabeth Radin Simons
• Hudson Valley Conference Focuses on Teaching Writing in a Web 2.0 World by Bonnie Kaplan
• Creating a Culture of Inquiry Through the Use of Model Lessons by Suzanne Linebarger
• ELL Professional Development Adapts to New Bilingual Education Legislation by Gavin Tachibana

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Youth and Community Programs

• Oklahoma's Marshall Plan: Combining Professional Development and Summer Writing Camps by Eileen Simmons
• California Writing Program Challenges Migrant Youngsters by Nan Austin
• NWP Cyberspace Project Connects Youth Voices by Paul Oh
• Engaging Parents Beyond Back-to-School Night
• NWP Radio: Parents as Partners in Literacy Education

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Results

• NWP Research Results
• Research and Assessment Tools
• Program Evaluation Portal in the NWP Site Leaders Ning
• Local Site Resource Initiative
• Developing Site Capacities Through Program Evaluation and Research by Paul Rogers
• "Powerful Continuity": Leveraging the Lessons of the LSRI Experience by Marilyn McKinney

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Technology Integration

• NWP Launches Website to Explore Digital Writing (links to Digital Is)
• The Web as a Tool for Continuity
• NWP's Technology Initiative
• The Role of an NWP Technology Liaison
• Revising Our Web Presence: The Re-visioning of a Writing Project Site by Susan Connell Biggs
• Teaching Now: Digital Writing Books

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Connecting to the NWP

• Special-Focus Networks

  • English Language Learners Network
  • Rural Sites Network
  • Teacher Inquiry Communities Network
  • Technology Liaisons Network
  • Urban Sites Network
• NWP Site Leaders Ning
• Know ELLs Ning
• NWP Radio Archive
• The E-Anthology Helps Create a Space for Access, Relevance, and Diversity
• NWP Book Group Ning

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Directing a Writing Project

• One Director's Role as Leader, Contextualizer, Researcher, Enabler, and Site Conscience by Sheridan Blau
• Knowing When to Make Coffee: Lessons in Leadership and Change for a New Site Leader by Vicki Holmsten
• Inside the NWP by Ann Lieberman and Diane Wood, reviewed by Art Peterson
• The National Writing Project: Scaling Up, Scaling Down by Joseph P. McDonald, Judy Buchanan, and Richard Sterling
• Site Leadership Transitions
• Strengthening Partnerships Between Sites and Universities: Tips from Site Directors by Betsey Bowen, Ellen Brinkley, Meg Petersen, and Rick VanDeWeghe

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