Teachers-- Our Showcase for Administrators and brunch is planned for February 9. This is so important because we plan to let administrators, curriculum coordinators, and staff development chairmen find out what OWP has to offer schools and districts. Please, please pass the word to the appropriate persons in your district. You'll be receiving the attached flyer in the mail this week. But don't wait. Please print the attachment and encourage your administrators to come to the brunch. We hope to have 75 administrators there. Thanks for your help. Janis Flyer: Because Writing Matters . . Dear Administrator or Staff Development Chairman: As an administrator in a progressive Oklahoma school district, I know you’re constantly searching for ways to improve student learning in your district or school. We at the Oklahoma Writing Project share in your desire to improve the teaching and learning in your district. Carl Nagan, in his book Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools, makes the case that students need to write more across all content areas and that schools need to expand their writing curricula to involve students in a range of writing tasks. Because writing is an important component of No Child Left Behind legislation, Oklahoma’s PASS objectives and state assessments, and now the ACT, the time is ripe for improving the teaching of writing in our schools. As you know, NCLB funds, Title I and Title II funds may be used to pay for OWP Staff Development. With these issues in mind, the Oklahoma Writing Project is hosting a Showcase of Inservice Opportunities to explore the ways the Writing Project might help schools improve the teaching of writing and the writing performance of students. In a series of snippets from our teacher consultants’ presentations, we will highlight specific programs offered by OWP focused on improving writing and writing to learn in Oklahoma schools. Please join us for this exciting morning and be our guests for a free brunch. Oklahoma Writing Project Showcase of Inservice Opportunities and Brunch February 9, 2005 ~ 9:00-11:30 a.m. Ballroom, Oklahoma Memorial Union University of Oklahoma Please call me at (405) 495-4903 or e-mail [log in to unmask] to register. For more information about the Showcase, please visit our website at www.ou.edu/special/owp. Deadline for registration is January 25. Sincerely, Janis Cramer Janis Cramer Co-Director of Inservice