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JOIN US IN D.C. TO EDUCATE CONGRESS ––
The NWP Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C., April 3-4,
is your chance
 to educate Congress about the great work you do.
Enjoy the cherry
 blossoms while you’re there! Thursday congressional
visits are followed on
 Friday by a keynote from Sonia Nieto and two sessions
of roundtables.
 Register online by March 14.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/312

URBAN SITES CONFERENCE PROPOSAL DEADLINE FEBRUARY 16
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Join your colleagues in Denver, Colorado, April 25-26,
for Reading and
 Writing for Understanding and Social Change in the
Urban Classroom, a
 conference that includes two days of workshops,
school visits, a writing
 marathon, and keynote speaker Richard Sterling.
Proposal deadline:
 February 16. Registration deadline: April 2.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/328

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ELEVEN NEW SITES ADDED TO NWP NETWORK! ––
The National Writing Project welcomes eleven new sites
into its network
 this year. The new sites are located in Illinois (3),
Maryland,
 Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico,
Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2525

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APPLY NOW FOR PROFESSIONAL WRITING RETREAT ––
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

DIRECTORS RETREAT APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE ––

Sites are invited to apply to send a team of two site
leaders to the
 NWP Directors Retreat, July 30–August 3, at Rock
Creek Resort in Red
 Lodge, Montana. The retreat is designed to support
directors and site
 leaders as they share their expertise and plan for
the development of work
 at their sites. Deadline: March 17.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/314

APPLY TO ATTEND 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 the Mississippi
Writing/Thinking
 Institute. 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
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