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College of Education
Mailstop 288
Univ. of Nevada-Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557
Phone: 775-784-1161
Fax: 775-784-4758
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The National Writing Project
The University of Nevada-Reno
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Northern Nevada Writing Project: Our Continuity Initiatives
continuity: (noun) opportunities specifically designed for TCs who have been through our Summer Institute and who want to stay involved in our local Writing Project.
Jodie Black is our Northern Nevada Writing Project's Continuity Coordinator. She took the NNWP Summer Institute in 1991. As Co-Director for four years, Jodie served as a Facilitator of our Summer Institute, and she redesigned the ISI's Mentorship Program. She has been in charge of the NNWP's Community of Writers since 2003. Jodie teaches kindergarten at Melton Elementary in Reno, Nevada. |
"As the Co-Director in charge of continuity events, it is my job to bring new TCs into the NNWP fold. I help insure the continued existence and strength of our organization as well as a refreshening of ideas and structures. Keeping our Teacher Consultants (TCs) involved with the NNWP after their Smmer Institute insures that the tasks required of our organization can be shared amongst many. The talent in the pool is self-infecting, inspiring new and better ideas all the time. Continuity events serve to keep people involved in our useful, viable, rewarding and fulfilling organization that is also a superb professional network. Beyond that, NNWP is a fun and exciting social network of dynamic, intelligent, ambitious and motivated educators."
--Jodie Black
Top 5 Ways to stay Involved with your NNWP:
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Take Advantage of our In-service
Scholarship Program:
Graduates of our Invitational Institute are eligible for our TC Scholarship Program. Any TC interested in taking a NNWP inservice class that charges for registration will have his/her registration fee refunded at the end of the class. Save your receipts when you register, and contact the NNWP to let us know you have registered in one of our courses.
Click here to see our Fall Inservice classes.
Click here to see our Spring Inservice classes. |
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Bring a Prospective Fellow to the Winter Reunion Event:
The NNWP sponsors an annual reunion event. Al l NNWP TCs are welcome to join us for food and conversation at the turn of each new year. Our reunion doubles as a recruiting occasion. We ask TCs to be on the lookout for strong teacher leaders. Inviting them to the reunion gives our staff a chance to meet and talk to recruits in a relaxed atmosphere in plenty of time for them to consider a summer with us. 2008's Reunion information will be posted here soon. |
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Become a Summer Institute Mentor :
To guide new Summer Institute Fellows through this sometimes-stressful  experience, NNWP TCs mentor participants through the process of crafting a presentation that inspires colleagues to stretch their thinking about writing instruction.
Mentors and fellows meet briefly in May, then throughout the months of June and July. Having mentors for the Invitational Summer Institute’s participants has become an integral piece of the summer study experience. Mentors not only provide moral support for the fellows, but also share in the development, pacing, and balance of the new presentations as they take shape.
Mentors grow and extend their own thinking about writing instruction, while new  fellows benefit from exchanging ideas with a colleague who has expertise in the overall fine tuning of putting together a valuable and memorable presentation.
Both mentors and fellows leave feeling rejuvenated for the coming school year. If interested in being a mentor at an upcoming Summer Institute, please contact Sandy Madura at: SMadura@washoe.k12.nv.us
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Participate in an Advanced Summer Institute:
Each summer, we offer up to 2 inservice credits for TCs interested in working on one of our upcoming projects. In 2003 and 2004, our Advanced Summer Institute focused on the topic of Social Action. In 2005 and 2006, our Advanced Summer Institute focused on creating new writing instruction resources using technology. In 2007, we held two Advanced Institutes: one to develop new trait-based materials; and one to create on-line resources to use writing while teaching the classics of literature, and to use song lyrics as inspiration for poetry writing.
We will be posting the topics of 2008's Advanced Summer Institute soon |
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Publish a Lesson or an Article at WritingFix:
Our site-sponsored website has grown tremendously since 2001; almost five million hits this year alone. Currently we have lessons--authored dozens of TCs-- in the following categories, and we could always use more:
- Picture Book Prompts
- Chapter Book Prompts
- Literature Prompts
- Poetry Prompts
- I-Pod Prompts
- Right-Brained Prompts
- Left-Brained Prompts
The site is expanding in two areas: Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Process Resources and Ideas.
We're looking (and paying!) for WAC lessons appropriate to be posted at our new sites:
- HistoryFix
- ScienceFix
- NumberFix
And we're looking (and paying!) for 2- or 3-page write ups (along with handouts) that share innovative discoveries about all the steps of the writing process:
- Pre-writing
- Drafting
- Responding
- Revision
- Editing
- Publishing
- Evaluating
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We're teachers teaching fellow teachers how to use writing as a powerful learning tool in all our classrooms. |
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