Dear OWP Teacher Consultants--

OWP has just received word that our contract with the
Special Education Services of the State Department of
Education has been approved for the 2008-09 school
year.  We will be networking on this project with the
OSU Writing Project.

OWP will be providing six conferences to help special
ed teachers become "Highly Qualified" in their core
subjects under No Child Left Behind.  Our first
conference will be held on a Saturday in September,
soon to be announced.

At each conference, we will offer four 3-hour
workshops in the morning --one each for science, math,
social studies, and language arts--and four in the
afternoon.  OWP presenters will make $375 for each
3-hour session, plus mileage (50+ cents a mile) for
those sessions 30 miles beyond your home.

If you are interested in being a presenter, keep in
mind that your objective will be to teach special
education teachers across the curriculum how to teach
their students to be better writers and better
thinkers.  In planning your presentation, you should
consider activities you may already use in your
classroom appropriate for special ed students.  Be
sure to include research to back up your teaching
techniques.

If you are interested in presenting, please e-mail me
your workshop title and program description (50-100
words), revised to fit the audience.  If you would
like to submit more than one workshop, you may be able
to present twice in one day.  I will be working out a
schedule of programs after I hear from everyone
interested in presenting.  By the way, the special ed
teachers will all be secondary, but that doesn't mean
elementary teachers can't present.

The first conference will be held in the Norman/OKC
area.  I will need to find venues throughout southern
Oklahoma for the other five conferences.  If you know
a school or other venue in either southwestern or
northwestern Oklahoma that would be appropriate for
our needs (four classrooms and a place for
registration), please let me know whom to contact.  We
will need to have a conference one Saturday every
other month, each in a different part of the state: 
Nov, Jan, March, May, and July.

This is a wonderful opportunity for OWP to spread its
philosophy of teaching across the state.  I hope to
hear from many of you right away.

Janis



Janis Cramer
Co-Director of Inservice
Oklahoma Writing Project
"Teachers Teaching Teachers"
820 Van Vleet Oval
University of Oklahoma
Phone and Fax (405) 495-4903
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