OWP is planning a Showcase for Administrators Feb. 9, and we need your help. We urgently need the names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of staff development chairs, district coordinators, and/or administrators to invite. Please reply to this e-mail with names and addresses of the most appropriate person from your school or district to invite to the free brunch and showcase. We hope to drum up lots of business for us (and for you) during the 2005-2006 school year. Thanks for your help. Janis Below is the article that will appear in the upcoming OWP News: OWP OFFERS SHOWCASE OF INSERVICE FOR ADMINISTRATORS OWP is offering a Showcase for Administrators February 9, 2005, 9:00-11:30 a.m. in the Ballroom of the Oklahoma Memorial Union on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Brunch will be served. There will be no charge for administrators. The objective is to reach administrators in all parts of the state to make them aware of the variety of inservice programs the Oklahoma Writing Project has to offer districts. OWP will also give away a 2-hour inservice workshop to one of the attendees. OWP TCs are urged to invite the representative from their district most likely to contract for district inservice with OWP. “We also hope to attract some high quality teachers to our 2005 Summer Institute,” said Janis Cramer, Co-Director of Inservice. “We believe when the administrators see what the Summer Institute has to offer, they’ll go back and encourage their best teachers to apply.” In the past, OWP has held Administrators’ Day at the close of the Summer Institute. Even though the programs were effective, few administrators attended because of the time of the year. Many were on vacation. “We think February is the perfect time to showcase what we have to offer,” Cramer said, “because that is the time of the year administrators and curriculum directors are planning their staff development for the following school year.” The plan for the program is to involve the audience in quickwrites, to show snippets of some of the most effective presentations OWP has to offer school districts, to invite some of our teacher consultants to read from their own writing, and to display anthologies from the Summer Institute. A flyer advertising the Showcase Celebration will be mailed to every teacher consultant in January. “We urge everyone to make sure your district is represented at the event,” Cramer said. “Our goal is to have 75 administrators there. We hope the result will be lots of inservice work for our teacher consultants for the 2005-2006 school year.”