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Literature Project
June 22-July 1, 2009

2009 NIWP Advanced Institute
July 7-8, 2009

Summer Institute
July 6–31, 2009

Writing Retreat
July 13-17, 2009

Writing in a Digital Age
July 20-24, 2009

Literacy Topics in the Elementary Classroom
July 27-28, 2009

Past Events

Fall Conference
October 3, 2008

Young Authors' Conference
November 1, 2008
November 8, 2008

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NIWP Director
College of Education
P.O. Box 443082
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-3082
(208) 885-6586

Spring Planting:

Growing Student Writers

March 10 & 11, 2010

Spokane Community College, Spokane, WA

An English/Language Arts gathering for kindergarten through college teachers.

Barry Lane, author of ten books on writing, including After the End: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision, will be the keynote speaker at the 2010 NIWP Spring Conference.

Barry has taught writing at the University of New Hampshire, has founded a literacy program in Vermont prisons, and continues to speak to and work with teachers, curriculum directors, principals and as a writer-in-residence in hundreds of elementary and secondary schools throughout the country.

Because of his wide range of experience as both a writer and teacher, he offers a unique perspective that teachers at all levels find enlightening. Barry’s warmth, humor and original songs help relay his practical ideas on teaching writing in a manner so compelling that they are being used in classrooms every day by thousands of teachers everywhere.

Conference Highlights:

A three hour keynote address by Barry Lane each morning.

Two rounds of concurrent sessions on literacy topics will be facilitated by NIWP teacher consultants each afternoon. Topics include: Writing in the Digital Age, Formative Assessment, Publishing with Purpose, Five Basic Brush Strokes for Young Writers, Transactional Genres/ Poetic Text: Investigating New Forms, Sentence Savvy, Writer’s Notebook, Four Steps for Stronger Writing and Analysis, and more!

Lunch will be available at the Spokane Community College Big Foot Café in the Lair. All conference sessions will be held in the Lair.

For more information contact: Northwest Inland Writing Project
Carol Nelson
PO Box 3261
Moscow, ID 83843
Phone: 509-635-1576
Email: carol@niwp.org

Register online at: www.regonline.com/niwpspring2010

On-line Book Reading Group: After the End by Barry Lane

Register by January 1st, 2010
Contact April Niemela for more information.
More information: Flyer, Syllabus, and Online Registration.
Credit: one credit
Class fee: $100; optional UI credit: $98
Required book: After the End by Barry Lane
Register on-line NOW.

2010 Invitational Summer Institute

July 6 – July 30, 2010

We invite you to apply to the Northwest Inland Writing Project’s 2010 Invitational Summer Institute, to be held on the campus of the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. The Northwest Inland Writing Project has been dedicated to improving the teaching of writing in Idaho and Washington schools for nearly thirty years. With its primary focus on academic literacy, NIWP’s Invitational Summer Institute is the centerpiece of the writing project’s work with teachers and administrators. Each summer, NIWP brings together K-college teachers and administrators in all subject areas to share knowledge and experience about how writing can be taught and used in classrooms.