QuestionsFriday Breakout Sessions
B14 Fostering Change in Urban Writing Project Sites and School Districts
When: Friday, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Where: Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel, 4th floor, Room 405/406
Presenter(s):
Heidi Atlas,
Long Island Writing Project
Ben Bates,
Oklahoma State University Writing Project
Lil Brannon,
UNC Charlotte Writing Project
Amanda Christy,
Boston Writing Project
Stephen Gordon,
Boston Writing Project
Melanie Hammer,
Long Island Writing Project
Anthony Iannone,
UNC Charlotte Writing Project
Tony Scott,
UNC Charlotte Writing Project
Jane Skelton,
Boston Public Schools
Three recent recipients of Urban Sites Network (USN) minigrants discuss the impact that a $5,000 USN minigrant had on their sites and service areas and the opportunities that arose as a result of their projects—which ranged from the role of race in interactions between students, teachers, and parents in Long Island, to revision-based content-area writing in Boston, to home and school literacies of ELL students in Charlotte, NC. Participants will get to experience how these projects moved from idea to proposal to implementation, providing opportunities for leadership development and expanding into new and unanticipated initiatives.