AM1 Navigating the Rough Road to Successful Rural Inservice
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis A
Using fictionalized case studies created by the Rural Sites Network leadership team, participants will engage in interactive problem solving of common difficulties encountered when delivering inservice in rural settings. More ›

AM2 Strengthening Work with New Teachers
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis B
This workshop offers site leaders and teacher-consultants an opportunity to expand existing work with new teachers or to develop programs to attract and keep new teachers in their writing project community. More ›

AM3 The National Reading Initiative’s Electronic Binder: Organizing to Share Reading Resources
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis C
Learn how the National Reading Initiative's electronic binder, a tool that helps record how we use readings to inquire into, understand, and discuss reading comprehension, can be added to and adapted for other areas of work at your site. More ›

AM4 Organizational Change in Project Outreach
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Independence
Project Outreach is designed to change the way that writing projects work by enhancing the capacity for writing projects to address issues of equity, and participants will have an opportunity to learn about change at three sites and take steps toward designing organizational change at their own writing project. More ›

AM5 Special-Focus Network Minigrants: Accessing Supplemental Funding to Grow Your Site Strategically
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio A
Have you and others at your site been thinking about accessing supplemental funding as an opportunity to grow your site? More ›

AM6 Reenvisioning Your Site to Meet the Needs of English Language Learners
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio C
In this workshop two sites will share models of how they facilitated courageous conversations through teacher inquiry groups focused on race, equity, and best practices for working with ELLs. More ›

AM7 Sharing Theories of Action for Continuity Programming
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio B
Engage with three writing project sites in learning about their approach to developing continuity programs that support site leadership teams and provide for their sites’ ongoing renewal and learning. More ›

AM8 Self-Representation and Site Identity
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett A
This workshop will explore the ways in which sites represent themselves and their work to various audiences. More ›

AM9 Overcoming the Challenges of Distance: Collaborating Across 268,601 Square Miles
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett B
Join us in a dialogue about how Texas sites utilize technology as a tool to gather together, collaborate remotely, and extend their work. More ›

AM10 Assessment as a Window into Instruction
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Seguin A & B
Experience NWP’s rubric, the Analytic Writing Continuum (AWC), and its multiple uses in site work and in classrooms. More ›

AM11 Creating Successful Relationships with State, District, and School Leaders
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett C
Working with state departments of education, regional professional development organizations, or school district professional development offices requires strong negotiating skills. More ›

AM12 Strengthening the University Connection
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic A
Maintaining a strong presence in the university is critical to the stability of a writing project site. More ›

AM13 Developing Capacity for Culturally Mediated Instruction
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic B
Two writing project sites will share how their advanced institutes are developing ELL teachers’ capacity to create classroom environments that support culturally mediated instruction. More ›

AM14 Advocating for Your Writing Project Site
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic C
If you want to learn more about how to tell the story of your writing project site in today’s policy environment, join us for a session that explores strategies for advocacy and identifies a number of different purposes for communication and a variety of audiences. More ›

AM15 Connecting Youth Writing Camps to Core Site Work
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon A - Texas Ballroom
In this workshop you will learn how two sites connected the work of their youth writing camps to core work at their sites. More ›

AM16 Beyond “Show Me the Money”: Building Capacity for Site and Network Resilience
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon B - Texas Ballroom
Learn how to find and strategically use the money that is available in the educational system for professional development—including state, district, and school funding from state and federal funding sources—to build local and collective capacity for your site or network. More ›

AM17 Reenvisioning Site Leadership
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon C - Texas Ballroom
When change and transition are on the horizon for writing project sites, leaders can use the opportunity to reenvision site leadership. More ›

AM18 Writing in the Digital Age
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon D - Texas Ballroom
After a brief discussion of the nature of literacy in the twenty-first century, teacher-consultants and technology liaisons from three sites will share what they are discovering about writing in digital environments through work in their classrooms, at their sites, and as part of the Technology Liaisons Network and/or the Technology Initiative. More ›

AM19 Rethinking Reading for the Summer Institute
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon E - Texas Ballroom
Participants in this workshop will take an inquiry stance to examine their site’s reading list and the summer institute structures that support those readings. More ›

AM20 Reaping the Rewards of Working with Young Authors
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon F - Texas Ballroom
This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to examine approaches to planning and organizing work with young writers and readers—and their parents. More ›

PM1 Using Site Profile Data for Strategic Planning and Inquiry
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis A
This interactive workshop will engage site leaders in thinking about how to use site data to conduct inquiry and support the work of their sites. More ›

PM2 Inquiry as Advocacy: Using Teacher Inquiry Communities to Promote Social Justice
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis B
This session, hosted by the Teacher Inquiry Communities Network, will feature a variety of ways that sites have used teacher inquiry communities to promote social justice. More ›

PM3 Is There Space for Content Area Teachers at Your Writing Project Site?
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Travis C
Is your site trying to generate interest among teachers in the content areas? More ›

PM4 Integrating Professional Writing into the Core Work of a Site
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Independence
Join the interactive presentation of teacher-consultants and site directors who have put together successful writing retreats with minimal budgets and busy teachers, as evidenced by their 2006-2007 Professional Writing Retreat minigrant reports. More ›

PM5 Strategic Designs for Open Programs and Saturday Sessions
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio A
Open programs and Saturday sessions, if thought about strategically, can provide writing project sites with ways to expand their reach to teachers. More ›

PM6 Teachers as Writers, Writers as Teachers
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio B
The Eastern Virginia Writing Project has embedded creative writing into its summer institute to assist teachers in practicing what they teach. More ›

PM7 Thinking Strategically About Your Site’s Online Presence
Grand Hyatt, 3rd Floor, Presidio C
This hands-on workshop offers participants the chance to view their sites in a new way using tools and processes developed to support the annual NWP web presence planning retreat. More ›

PM8 Reclaiming Portfolios for Teaching, Assessment, and Professional Development
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett A
In a time of testing and accountability, how can writing project sites and networks of sites shift the professional development conversation from high-stakes tests to writing assessment? More ›

PM9 Building a Knowledge Base Through Inquiry into the Principles Supporting Inservice Programs
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett B
This session invites you to engage in an inquiry into identifying the guiding principles that define sites’ work in schools; equipping teacher-consultants with models to deliver effective staff development programs; and establishing common understandings of the role of an NWP inservice provider. More ›

PM10 Appreciative Inquiry into Site Development
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Crockett C
Members of the Urban Sites Network Leadership Team and representatives from three mixed-area sites will use a model known as appreciative inquiry to engage small groups in an examination of a broad range of local data related to the intentional efforts of writing project sites to attract and sustain the involvement of diverse teachers. More ›

PM11 The Web as a Tool for Continuity
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Seguin A & B
Drawing on an open institute and a digital publication, this session will explore how continuity programs can utilize the Internet as a powerful resource. More ›

PM12 Developing and Sustaining Dynamic School Partnerships
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic A
This workshop will explore strategies for establishing and sustaining long-term partnerships with schools and districts. More ›

PM13 Technology Connections Make Site Successes
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic B
This workshop will demonstrate how one site's capacity needs around technology led to the creation of a state tech network that continues to build upon the success of the existing state and regional networks. More ›

PM14 Exploring Tensions in Site Work and Site Leadership
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Republic C
The work of leading an NWP site often depends upon multiple and complex relationships, both individual and institutional. More ›

PM15 Inquiry into Demonstrations
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon A - Texas Ballroom
This workshop explores the role of inquiry in the examination of teacher practice in the summer invitational institute. More ›

PM16 A Close Look at Writing with Young Children
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon B - Texas Ballroom
Learn more about the writing of young children and how to support and strengthen early literacy development through writing. More ›

PM17 Developing and Sustaining Leadership Teams
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon C - Texas Ballroom
In this session participants will examine the development of leadership teams through strategies such as teacher-consultant apprenticeships and mentoring, and will consider the ways these practices support and extend leadership at a site, create new possibilities for site work and leadership, and develop the confidence and knowledge of teacher-leaders. More ›

PM18 Beyond the “Workshop”: What Does Long-Term Partnership Work in Schools Look Like?
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon D - Texas Ballroom
As sites engage in more sophisticated long-term partnerships with schools and districts, site leaders are developing an array of strategies to meet the professional development needs of teachers in their partner schools. More ›

PM19 The Invitational Summer Institute: Preparing Teacher-Consultants for Learning and Leading
Grand Hyatt, 4th Floor, Salon E - Texas Ballroom
Since a primary purpose of the invitational summer institute is to prepare and develop teacher-leaders, this workshop will explore how that purpose affects the ways that sites recruit excellent teachers and support them during the summer institute, preparing them to lead inservice and continuity as part of the site’s ongoing professional community. More ›