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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 Literacy Initiatives
The Northern Nevada Writing Project believes that reading and writing walk hand in hand in a true writing classroom. We sponsor projects annually that reinforce this philosophy with Northern Nevada Teachers.
Kim Cuevas is the Northern Nevada Writing Project's Literacy Coordinator. In 1999, Kim became a Teacher Consultant for the NNWP by taking our Summer Institute. Since then, she has been involved in dozens of projects, including our Technology Initiative and our summer Mentorship Program for new fellows.
In 2007, Kim took the reigns as both a Northern Nevada Writing Project Co-Director as well as the Language Arts Program Coordinator for Washoe County's Regional Center for Teaching and Learning. |
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16-hour inservice classes: Our Reading in the Content Areas Guide is also used in Washoe County's New Teacher Academies, which are offered four or five times annually through Washoe County's inservice department. Three hours of these 15-hour classes are devoted to learning how to write meaningfully in curricular areas beyond language arts.
PLC Support: Our Reading in the Content Areas Guide--which was first published in 2006--is now being used by professional learning communities of teachers in Northern Nevada. |
 The NNWP's Reading in the Content Areas is available for purchase at our Publications page. |
2- and 3-hour trait workshops: Thanks to our strong partnership with Nevada's Northwest Regional Professional Development Program, we offer on-site writing across the curriculum workshops during early release days for schools.
Teachers receive copies of the RICA Guide, and they plan site-based strategies to address the literacy needs of their students in all the curriculum areas. |
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 The Constructed Response Summit: In Nevada, a constructed response item on a district or state test is one where students read a passage of text or examine a graph or math problem, and then provide a short written answer that shows they've comprehended what they've looked at or read.
 In September of 2007, working in partnership with Nevada's Northwest Regional Professional Development Program and Washoe County's PPA & A Department, the NNWP helped host the first Constructed Response Summit in Northern Nevada. Over 50 teachers from two counties, representing 16 elementary and 6 middle schools attended the event.
Workshops on teaching students to write effective constructed responses, demo lessons on how to use constructed response as a classroom learning tool, and school team discussions on how constructed response techniques can be shared at individual school sites were highlights of the day.
Two follow-up dates for participants are scheduled, where teachers will share new discoveries they have made between meetings and sessions. These teachers' insights and techniques will be shared at WritingFix's Constructed Response Homepage. |
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On-line Trait Resources: Our ever-growing collection of free RICA ideas and tools can be accessed from WritingFix's Reading in the Content Areas Homepage.
In Fall of 2006, we began building a new literacy-based resource page: The Constructed Response Homepage, which continues to grow as our teachers make new discoveries about using constructed response as a classroom tool. |
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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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