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LOOKING AHEAD TO SAN ANTONIO IN 2008 ––
We hope to see you in San Antonio at the 2008 Annual
Meeting, November
20-21, held in conjunction with the NCTE Annual
Convention. The
deadline for submitting a proposal to present at NCTE
is January 10 by surface
mail, January 17 online.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/08am/home.csp
DON’T MISS URBAN SITES NETWORK CONFERENCE IN DENVER ––
The Urban Sites Network invites you to Denver,
Colorado, April 25-26,
for its annual conference, Reading and Writing for
Understanding and
Social Change in the Urban Classroom. The conference
includes two days of
workshops, school visits, a writing marathon, and
more, including
keynote speaker Richard Sterling at the Saturday
plenary session. Workshop
proposal deadline: February 16. Registration
deadline: April 2.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/328
REGISTER NOW FOR NWP SPRING MEETING ––
Register online now for the NWP Spring Meeting in
Washington, D.C.,
April 3-4. This is your chance to educate Congress
about the great work
you do. Thursday visits to Congress are followed on
Friday by a keynote
from Sonia Nieto and two sessions of roundtables.
Participants must
register to attend. Deadline: March 14.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/312
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APPLY NOW FOR NATIONAL READING INITIATIVE ONLINE EVENT
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Sites are invited to register two experienced site
leaders (individuals
also may apply) for an online discussion, Recruiting
and Supporting
Content-Area Teachers in Writing Projects, February
16-March 1. Site
leaders who plan and facilitate summer institutes,
high school professional
development series, or continuity programs are
invited to discuss the
challenges and possibilities of inviting content-area
colleagues to
participate in writing project work. Deadline:
January 18.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/338
READING, WRITING, AND TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST ––
The Holocaust Educators Network, in partnership with
the National
Writing Project, announces 20 fellowships for NWP
teacher-consultants in the
Rural Sites Network to attend the Memorial Library
Summer Seminar on
Holocaust Education in New York City, July 7-19.
Deadline: January 20.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/329
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 2008 RSN
Resource Development Retreat in Nebraska, July 25-28.
Experienced
leaders from sites serving rural schools will gather
to craft materials that
convey their sites’ knowledge about programming and
building
leadership capacity. Deadline: January 25.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/313
PLANNING YOUR SITE'S WEB PRESENCE ––
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 Colorado, May
2-4. The retreat is an opportunity to create a
development plan for an
existing Web presence or a new one. Deadline:
February 1.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/327
PROFESSIONAL WRITING RETREAT APPLICATION NOW ONLINE ––
Spend June 19–22 at Sunrise Springs Inn and Retreat in
Santa Fe, New
Mexico, writing about your practice or about the
educational contexts
in which writing occurs. The retreat is limited to 28
participants and
is organized in two strands to accommodate writers at
varying levels of
experience. Deadline: March 17.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/326
APPLY NOW FOR SOUTHEAST REGIONAL INSERVICE INSTITUTE
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Send a team of two to work on broadening and expanding
your site’s
inservice programs at Whispering Woods Conference
Center in Olive Branch,
Mississippi, July 17–19. Limited to 20 sites;
registration is
first-come, first-served. Hosted by Mississippi State
Writing/Thinking
Network. Deadline: March 21.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/340
WORK OF ELL NETWORK TO BE FEATURED AT TESOL CONVENTION
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Join the NWP ELL Network at the 2008 TESOL Convention
in New York City.
At a Preconvention Institute on April 1, writing
project
teacher-leaders will share strategies to support ELL
students' literacy development
through digital storytelling, wikis, Google Docs,
podcasts, and blogs.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/341
SIGN UP FOR NWP SPECIAL-FOCUS NETWORKS ––
Sites are invited to join the English Language
Learners, Rural Sites,
Teacher Inquiry Communities, or Urban Sites networks.
Membership is
required to be eligible for a 2008-2009 minigrant.
(Membership in the
Technology Liaison Network is automatic for all sites
with technology
liaisons. Be sure your tech liaison is registered on
the TLN listserv.)
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/programs/sfn/membership.csp
APPLY NOW FOR SPECIAL-FOCUS NETWORK MINIGRANTS ––
Four of NWP’s special-focus networks offer minigrants
to strengthen
site work in areas that support the networks’
missions. Funds provide
support for projects that build leadership capacity,
develop or extend
inservice and continuity programs, and network with
other sites to
support student learning and writing. Deadline:
January 9.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/programs/sfn/grants.csp
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