Summer Institute
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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!
What We Offer
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 include folk who 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).
Program Logistics and Details
Our programming will be fully IN-PERSON at Rhode Island College for two weeks, meeting only on Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Thursdays during the weeks of July 9–11 and July 16–18 from 9 am–2 pm each day. In addition to our programming, there will be a Welcome Kick Off Event on June 22nd at RIC as well as a reunion event post-programming to discuss continued interest and support for the upcoming school year. The timing and location of our reunion event will be determined based on the current cohort's availability and interests.
Together we will renew our identities as writers, share our pedagogical expertise, and experiment and play with tools and texts to help boost our teaching practices (and perhaps even our personal lives).Through practices like daily journaling, writing groups, and lesson workshopping, we will build community and share ready-to-use strategies that we can take back to our classrooms.
For the first time ever, SI is FREE *and* there is a $200 stipend for participants who fully engage in all of our programming. Due to this change, we plan to cap our cohort at 10 people.
The deadline for nominations/applications is June 19th.
