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Please look at the exciting opportunities (and
deadlines) below and let Priscilla or me know if
you're interested in participating in one of them.

Janis

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NWP TO HOST CONGRESSIONAL FORUM ––
NWP will host a forum on Capitol Hill, January 24, to
educate
 congressional staffers on what makes quality
professional development for
 teachers.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2510

TWO NEW COSPONSORS ON H.R. 3357 ––
Legislators continue to commit support for NWP’s
reauthorization
 bills thanks to the strong relationships you have
built with legislative
 offices. House bill H.R. 3357 now has 34 cosponsors
with the addition of
 Rep. Albio Sires (D-NJ) and Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA).
Thank you for all
 of your hard work last year on this effort. We will
send information for
 this year’s bills later this spring.

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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

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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DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR READING INITIATIVE ONLINE
EVENT ––
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 involved in planning and facilitating 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

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 NOW FOR SOUTHEAST REGIONAL INSERVICE INSTITUTE —
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

SHARE YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS WITH COLLEAGUES ––
Tell us about teacher-consultants, directors, or
co-directors at your
 site who have received honors or awards or who have
recently published.
 Submit to Awards and Accolades for the next issue of
E-Voice. Deadline:
 Friday, February 15.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/resources/awards_and_accolades.csp