NNWP
College of Education
Mailstop 288
Univ. of Nevada-Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557

Phone: 775-784-1161
Fax: 775-784-4758

2009's Summer Open

• Monday – Thursday, June 15-18 (week 1)
• Monday – Thursday, June 22-25 (week 2)
• Monday--Thursday, June 29-July 2 (week 3)
• All class sessions: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
• All classes held at: UNR's College of Education Building, room TBA
• Click here to print/view the 2009 Summer Open Syllabus

2009's NNWP Presenters:

Tuesday, June 16--8:30-10:00 Jodie Black “Talk the Talk”
Wednesday, June 17—8:30-10:00—Denise Boswell and Kelly Nott “Intro to Traits”
               10:15-11:30—Corbett Harrison “Revising Using Traits Language”
Thursday, June 18—8:30-10:00—Rob Stone “Poetry From the Heart—I-Pod Writing”
Tuesday, June 23—8:30-10:00—Kim Cuevas “Multi-Genre Research”
               10:15-12:00—Karen McGee “Writing Workshop: Ideas and Organization”   
Wednesday, June 24—8:30-10:00—Carol Gebhardt “Memoirs: A Slice of Life”
                10:15-11:30—Yvette Deighton “Engaging Students with Writing…”
Thursday, June 25—8:30-10:00—Campbell Valle—“Response Through Letter-Writing”
Monday, June 29—8:30-10:00—Amy Maniscalco “Reading Like a Writer…”
Tuesday, June 30—8:30-10:00—Corbett Harrison “Mr. Stick”
               10:15-11:30—Kristina Wulfing “Personalizing the Writing Prompt”
Wednesday, July 1—8:30-10:00—Kim Polson “Episodic Writing”

If you are a Northern Nevada Writing Project Teacher Consultant who would like to come as a guest to attend during any of these presenter's demonstration lessons, please contact Robin Griffin for room number information.

Our Summer Open teaches the philosophy of the National Writing Project, which emphasizes teachers teaching teachers. Through this three-credit summer class, teachers and future teachers become familiar with the latest classroom writing research, gain exposure to Nevada state writing standards and inspiring classroom strategies to teach them, and learn successful strategies to prepare students for state writing assessments.  Participants of the Open are also encouraged in their own personal writing so that they understand more fully what their students experience when given writing assignments.

Currently, the Open is offered every summer in June. It is a three-week, four day, eight to twelve class in which dedicated teachers who have taken the Summer Invitational class and have been trained as teacher consultants present their research-based classroom strategies to participants. Participants leave with a multitude of classroom activities and techniques that can be applied immediately. Presentations mostly focus on the six writing traits, the writing process, writing across the curriculum, and reading and writing connections.  

If you have questions about this summer's Open Institute, please contact Robin Griffin at rgriffin@tmcc.edu.

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NNWP's Mission Statement

The Northern Nevada Writing Project is committed to improving student writing by promoting the teaching of writing, recognizing teacher expertise and leadership, building a foundation of research, and encouraging teachers as writers.