Prairie Lands Writing Project
Exceptional PD Opportunity
Prairie Lands Writing Project...Attention NW Region
Exceptional PD Opportunity
Every summer, the Prairie Lands Writing Project (northwest Missouri’s only National Writing Project site) brings educational leaders in all content areas working with grade levels pre-K through college to the Missouri Western State University campus for the Invitational Summer Institute: an exhilarating inquiry community focusing on writing and the best practices of literacy teaching.
I recently asked our Prairie Lands Teacher Consultants, who have all completed a Summer Institute themselves, to nominate exceptional area teachers, specialists, instructional coaches, and administrators for one of only sixteen spots in the 2019 Summer Invitational Institute.
I’ve attached an informational flyer and application form, and very much hope you will submit an application for the 2019 PLWP Invitational Summer Institute on or before our deadline of Friday, March 1st.
The financial advantage to participating in the Summer Institute is that it earns you six ENG or EDU graduate credit hours absolutely free, including MWSU fees (a $2,000 value), which can help advance you on your district salary schedule and/or count toward a graduate degree.
The personal and professional advantage is that it allows you to work together with up to 19 other teachers from the region to improve your literacy teaching, sharing your expertise and learning together in the National Writing Project’s teachers-teaching-teachers model that’s been so successful in sites across the country for the last 40 years.
On blind evaluations submitted to and compiled by the National Writing Project, over ninety percent of our 2002-2018 Prairie Lands Invitational Institute Summer Scholars felt that 1) the quality and value of the Institute was better than other (Non-NWP) professional development activities participated in recently; 2) the Institute contributed greatly to their teaching of writing and literacy-based projects; 3) they would be able to use what they learned at the Institute in their classrooms and schools.
If you complete the Invitational Summer Institute, you will become a certified Teacher Consultant for the National Writing Project and part of the 500+ teachers in the PLWP network who are regularly recruited and paid to help with professional development opportunities, grants, and youth programs at MWSU, across the state, and even at the national level.
To learn more about Prairie Lands Writing Project and the Invitational Summer Institute, feel free to contact us or visit our web site athttps://plwp.missouriwestern.edu/.
Note: Please forward these materials to other educators you know who might also be interested. Nominations are encouraged each year but are not required for application to the Summer Institute. All pre-K through college level teachers, administrators, specialists, and instructional coaches in any content area are welcome to apply.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Sincerely,
The 2019 PLWP Summer Institute Co-Facilitators:
Dana Barnes (Reading Specialist/Lit Coach, ESSD 40)dbarnes10@missouriwestern.edu
Amy Miller (MWSU Department of English)amiller@missouriwestern.edu
Elisabeth Alkier (Bode Middle School)Elisabeth.Alkier@sjsd.k12.mo.us
Dana Barnes
PLWP Summer Institute, Director
PLWP Summer Institute, Co-facilitator
PLWP Advisory Team Member