National Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute 
Each of the nearly 200 NWP sites holds an invitational summer institute every summer. Several thousand teachers participate each year in these summer institutes, and every year new groups of summer fellows at local sites describe their summer institute experience as “a space for critical reflection so essential to good practice,” “causing a noticeable and great shift in all of my teaching,” “the best professional development I have had in all my years of teaching.”
The invitational summer institute is at the core of NWP’s model of “teachers teaching teachers.” For more about the intentional and complex design of NWP summer institutes and how they support teachers as professionals, as researchers, and as writers, visit the National Writing Project.
NWPNH Invitational Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing
June 25th – July 26th, 2012 – Plymouth Campus.
This institute accepts a group of teachers who use writing in grades K-16. During five four-day weeks in the summer and one follow-up workshop in the fall, they will focus on both their own writing and writing instruction by demonstrating and revising teaching practices they have developed, critiquing and improving their own writing, reading current literature on writing instruction, planning various forms of professional development for schools and districts who request their help, and learning a new model of staff development through participation in reflective practice and teaching exploration groups. Six to nine graduate credits are available at a special rate, and participants receive a stipend. Applications will be accepted until March 31; however, applications received on or before February 15th, 2012 will be given priority. Invitations to the institute will be issued by April 15.
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Advanced Leadership Summer Institute
June 25th – July 26th – Plymouth Campus.
Deadline for for priority consideration is December 15th 2011. Applicant interviews are conducted in mid-January, and invitations to the institute are issued in Jan/early Feb. This institute is designed for those teacher consultants who have already completed a summer institute at a National Writing Project site. This institute is for those who are seriously committed to the teaching of writing, and see themselves assuming leadership positions in their schools, districts and with the writing project itself. Participants practice leadership and staff development skills through working with teachers of writing at the summer institute. They also deepen their knowledge and scholarship in the field of writing pedagogy. Plymouth Writing Project Advanced Leadership Summer Institute meet for pre- and post-Institute staff planning days, and during the same five weeks as the Invitational Summer Institute. Institute participants coach summer institute participants on preparing teaching explorations, share in the facilitation of writing and reflective practice groups for summer institute participants, extend their understandings of staff development and leadership through extensive reading in the field of writing pedagogy theory, and apprentice with the instructors at the site. Six graduate credits are available at a reduced rate, and participants receive a stipend.
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Open Institute for Teachers of Writing
9 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday July 5-20
This summer institute is designed for teachers who would like to gain a thorough background in the teaching of writing with practical applications they can use in their classrooms. Participants write, respond to other’s writing, and reflect on how this experience informs their thinking about their teaching. They do guided research on a topic related to their teaching, and devise, practice, and workshop strategies for classroom use. The cost is $500. three graduate credits are available at a reduced cost per credit. Offered July 5-20 in Concord.
Writing Our Communities in Plymouth
July 23—July 26 9 p.m. – 3 p.m.
This special focus institute runs on the same principles that guide the National Writing Project in New Hampshire invitational institute. It is designed for teachers who would like to gain a thorough background in teaching place-based writing to their students. It is open to all teachers in all disciplines and other interested parties. The cost for the institute is $350. Participants can register for two graduate credits at a reduced rate.
Exploring Technology & Writing
Offered Online July 9– August 10
This special focus institute is designed for those wanting to learn about the connection between writing and web technologies such as social networking, online collaboration, blogs, wikis, Google applications and more. Teachers will learn about and explore uses of technology and writing and design projects for their classrooms. The cost of the institute is $350. Participants can register for three graduate credits at a reduced rate.
Writing and New Literacies
July 9-12 9 a.m. through 3:00 p.m. in Plymouth
Without question, adolescents are savvy, literate individuals using a myriad of tools and practices to ex-plore the world around them and craft their identities. Since many adolescents are classed as “at risk” and failing, it’s time to refocus on how something ever-present in sec-ondary classrooms—students’ own literate lives—can be leveraged to welcome and support adolescents’ diverse literacy practices. This insti-tute’s two main goals will be to ex-plore ways to use these literacies as tools to foster relevant, flexible think-ing in students and teachers alike, and to explore ways teachers can bring into practice the interests and existing literacies of the adolescent writer/reader. The cost is $350. Participants may register for two graduate credits at a reduced rate.
Writing Across the Curriculum
July 16-19 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. in Concord.
The focus of this institute will be on introducing strategies to implement writing across content areas to help students think, help teachers measure student understanding and all without adding “one more thing” for teachers to do. Instructors will demonstrate writing to learn activities and assignments to demonstrate learning which will actively engage your students with content. Teachers will have a chance to customize these approaches for use in their classes. We will also look at when and how to assess writing activities in content area classes. Cost: $350 per participant. Participants can register for two graduate credits at a reduced rate.
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