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Continuity*

* NWP term for ongoing professional development activities for Writing Project teachers.

Working groups are at the heart of the Writing Project. Active Writing Project Fellows plan and coordinate ongoing professional development activities. If you're interested in joining a group or learning more about what a group does, use the links below to contact us. You are welcome to join at any time. Maybe you have an idea of your own for a group or a project. Let us know.

See the Calendar for meetings and activities. Scroll down or use these links for more information:

Celebrations

Inquiry

Writing Community

Publications

Technology

School-Based Professional Development

Young Writers Programs

Summer Institute

State Network

Political Action


Co-Coordinators

The Continuity Co-Coordinators plan and coordinate continuity activities for Writing Project Fellows. This includes Super Saturdays, writing activities to support professional and personal writing and publication by member teachers, inquiry groups, seminars and discussions on teaching and learning. Some activities are open to all teachers to help other teachers to become acquainted with the Writing Project. Please see the calendar for specific information on activities.

To learn more or to help with continuity work:

Celebrations

Contact Jen Ernsthausen

  • July: Summer Potluck
  • December: Holiday Party
  • March: Poe.Art Reading and Exhibit, of poetry and visual art
  • June: Annual Dinner

Inquiry

Contact Daniela Buccilli or Melissa Butler.


If you would like more information about ongoing inquiry groups, joining one or starting you own, contact us. We welcome all inquiring teachers to join us!

Discussions, roundtables, ideas for Super Saturdays

Contact Lucy Ware.

 

Writing Community

Contact Susan Gradeck.

Offers writing activities to maintain the Writing Project community of writers and to help classroom teachers stay engaged in writing.

  • October: Fall Writing Retreat
  • February: Writing Renaissance
  • Keep on Writing! A new writing group for WPWP teachers.
  • Occasional writing marathons and creative writing courses.
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Publications Working Group

Co-Chairs:Barbara Dahlberg, Megan Ciliberti Whiteford
Members: Laurel McMahon, Christine Wolfe

Writing for Threads is collected on an ongoing basis for two or three publications each year. Volunteers are needed for editing and producing the publication.

Contact Barbara Dahlberg.


Technology

WPWP is seeking Fellows who are using technology in their classrooms to broaden our professional development offerings and our inquiry to include technology. If you are interested in technology and its connections to teaching and learning please contact Mara Linaberger, NWP/WPWP Technology Liaison

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Young Writers Programs

If you are interested in developing or participating in Young Writers programs, contact us.

 

Summer Institute Working Group

This group assists SIT co-directors in planning and recruiting for the SIT. The group is currently developing recruitment and marketing strategies for the 2009 Institute.

Contact Don Bialostosky.

State Network Travel Team

Are you interested in learning about other Writing Project sites in Pennsylvania? Broadening your network of Writing Project colleagues? Having more of the big picture of education in our state? Participating in free professional development activities at the state level three times a year?

Contact Nancy Addy.

Political Action Group

Would you like to be an advocate for the National Writing Project with US legislators? Are you interested in how things work at the national level? Would you like to represent our site on the Pennsylvania Writing Project Network visit to Washington, DC in April? And attend the NWP spring meeting the next day?

Contact Jane Dorman.

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