NWP Site Bulletin, January 4, 2010: Happy New Year!
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SUBMIT CONTINUED FUNDING APPLICATION ONLINE JANUARY 4-8 ––
The deadline for the 2010-2011 Continued Funding Application (CFA) is Friday, January 8. Each site must mail a complete application with original signatures plus four copies to the Berkeley office. Each site also must submit electronic copies of selected parts of the CFA via the NWP website during the submission period, January 4-8. Questions? Contact siteapps@nwp.org or 510-643-7022. Deadline: JANUARY 8.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/projects/89
SUBMIT BUDGET REQUEST THROUGH ONLINE BUDGET SYSTEM BY JANUARY 8 ––
Your 2010-2011 budget request, including core and minigrant funds, must be submitted through NWP's year-round online budget system. Complete one worksheet for your core site budget and one worksheet for each minigrant request. (Submit minigrant application narratives separately.) See details in the CFA Instructions, budget system Help section, or Special-Focus Networks Grants webpage. Deadline: JANUARY 8.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/nwpsites/budget_system.html
APPLY NOW FOR SPECIAL-FOCUS NETWORK MINIGRANTS ––
NWP's special-focus networks (English Language Learners, Rural Sites, Teacher Inquiry Communities, Technology Liaisons, and Urban Sites) offer minigrants to strengthen site work in areas that support the networks' missions. Funds support projects that help sites build leadership capacity, develop or extend inservice and continuity programs, and network with other sites to support student learning and writing. Site directors will be required to enter the budget request in the online budget system this year. Deadline: JANUARY 8.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/programs/sfn/grants.csp
BE PART OF NWP'S LOCAL SITE RESEARCH INITIATIVE ––
Sites are invited to submit a proposal to join Cohort VI of the Local Site Research Initiative (LSRI). Funded projects will be supported by the NWP Research Unit over a three-to-four-year period. The goal of LSRI is to develop a body of research that examines local professional development programs that illuminate teacher practices and student achievement in writing across a range of grade levels, schools, and local contexts. Deadline: JANUARY 20.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/projects/95
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DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION EVENT FELLOWSHIPS ––
The Holocaust Educators Network, in partnership with NWP's Rural Sites Network, offers 24 fellowships for teacher-consultants to attend the Memorial Library Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education in New York City. Open to TCs in the Rural Sites Network and other teachers across NWP who show critical needs, the program is co-sponsored by the Memorial Library, and by Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Application postmark deadline: JANUARY 15.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/453
MAKE PLANS NOW TO ATTEND NATIONAL READING INITIATIVE CONFERENCE ––
Join NWP leaders from around the country to examine the intersections of interesting threads of work related to adolescent literacy and content area learning. What's Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning, March 5-6, in New Orleans, will feature keynote speaker Elizabeth Birr Moje. Registration deadline: JANUARY 22.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/407
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: URBAN SITES NETWORK CONFERENCE ––
The Urban Sites Network invites you to submit a workshop proposal for the upcoming conference in Portland, Oregon, April 23-24, Writing Across the Margins: Illuminating Urban Voices. The gathering includes a pre-conference event sponsored by the Technology Liaisons Network, workshops, school visits, two writing marathon strands, an Open Mic night, and more, including keynote speaker and renowned poet Patricia Smith at the Saturday plenary session. Registration deadline: APRIL 2. Workshop proposal deadline: JANUARY 22.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/422
APPLY NOW FOR RSN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT RETREAT ––
Rural Sites Network (RSN) member-sites are invited to apply to send two experienced site leaders (individuals may also apply) to the 2010 RSN Resource Development Retreat in Arizona, July 22-26. Experienced leaders from sites serving rural schools will gather to craft materials that convey their sites' knowledge about programming and building leadership capacity. Deadline: FEBRUARY 1.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/419
PLAN YOUR SITE'S WEB PRESENCE AT WORKING RETREAT IN DENVER ––
Sites interested in considering their online presence and its relation to core work, priorities, and goals are invited to apply for Planning Your Site's Web Presence: A Working Retreat, in Denver, May 21-23. The retreat is an opportunity to create a development plan for an existing Web presence or new one. Application deadline: FEBRUARY 1.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/448
JOIN US FOR NWP SPRING MEETING IN DC ––
Register online for the NWP Spring Meeting in Washington, DC, March 25-26. This is your chance to educate Congress about the great work you do. Thursday visits to Congress are followed on Friday by a keynote speech and roundtable discussions. Please join us for an interactive planning session with other participants on Wednesday evening. Registration is required. Deadline: MARCH 12.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/10sm/home.csp
APPLY NOW FOR THIS SUMMER'S DIRECTORS RETREAT ––
Sites are invited to apply to send a team of two site leaders to the NWP Directors Retreat, August 1–5, in Tubac, Arizona. The retreat is designed to support directors and site leaders as they share expertise and plan the development of site work. Deadline: MARCH 15.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/433
SEND A SITE TEAM TO THE 2010 REGIONAL INSERVICE INSTITUTE ––
Send a team of two to work on broadening and expanding your site's inservice programs in Austin, Texas, July 15–17. The institute is hosted by the Heart of Texas Writing Project. Limited to 20 sites; registration is first-come, first-served. Deadline: MARCH 19.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/449
APPLY TO SEND A TEAM TO "RECRUITING FOR DIVERSITY" ––
Sites are invited to apply to send a team to Recruiting for Diversity, a working meeting with a focus on increasing diversity in site leadership. Teams will explore relevant definitions of diversity in their service area, why diversity matters, and how to plan for changes at their site. Recruiting for Diversity will be held in Minneapolis, June 25-27. Deadline: MARCH 19.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/461
BE PART OF THIS SUMMER'S PROFESSIONAL WRITING RETREATS ––
Applications are now available for Professional Writing Retreats A and B, to be held in Southern Arizona, July 15-18, 2010. The retreats give teachers a chance to write about the profession of teaching, literacy and learning, their own practice, policy and school reform, and more. Deadline: MARCH 22.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/430
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TUNE IN TO NWP RADIO'S DEBUT BROADCAST ––
Now that your CFA is submitted, join us on NWP Radio at blogtalkradio to hear about opportunities for site leaders. There are a number of application deadlines in January. We'll focus on LSRI, USN and RSN opportunities, the upcoming NRI conference, and the Holocaust Educators Network summer seminar. Listen this Friday, January 8, via the Site Leaders Ning at 1 p.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Mountain, 3 p.m. Central, 4 p.m. Eastern. Listen live or listen later at your convenience. Not a member of the Site Leaders Ning? Join now!
http://nwpsiteleaders.ning.com/.
Or go directly to blogtalkradio:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio
JOIN DISCUSSIONS AT NWP BOOK GROUP NING ––
Beat the winter blahs. Join the timely upcoming book discussions in the NWP Book Group Ning. J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize winning novel, DISGRACE, will be the focus of an online book discussion, January 25–February 5. Mike Rose's WHY SCHOOL?, a challenge to the current climate of high-stakes testing, will follow from February 15–March 1. Then journey to Iran with Marjane Satrapi's PERSEPOLIS, a young woman's memoir of the effect of the Iranian revolution on her and her family, March 12-19. If you are not a member, join and spread the word at your site for what promise to be engaging discussions.
http://nwpbookgroups.ning.com