Overview
Summer Institute (SI) is at the core of the National Writing Project's teachers-teaching-teachers model of professional development. Our institute is open to all current teachers who serve in K-12 classrooms. All content areas, including speciality areas such as special education and multilingual learning, are welcome to join us. Yep, you read that right: You do not need to be an English teacher in order to participate in this experience!
Ideal applicants are:
- ready to learn new skills and practices for teaching writing
- committed to incorporating writing into their instruction
- within the first 10 years of their teaching career (though if you are past this number, we still encourage you to join us!)
- looking to join a professional community of supportive, like-minded educators
- becoming a RIWP Teacher Consultant and offer PD to colleagues at your school and around the state
- (optional): interested in earning three graduate credits (EDC 540: Teaching of Writing: Practice and Inquiry, from RIC)
Past Participant Takeaways
“As an educator and human being, I find myself more enabled to act on behalf of myself, my colleagues, and my students learning what I have during these past two weeks.”
“I was very thankful to focus on re-vision and advocacy after the stressful year I had had; I was able to look back at the advocacy from the previous year and analyze it to move forward and figure out how to better go about it in the future. It made me ready to start fresh.”