LIWP Opportunity for Educators
2022-2023 Initiative with Summer Institute Kick-Off
LIWP Summer Institute Kick-Off
The Long Island Writing Project is inviting passionate and collaborative educators who value identity, history, equity, and writing to apply for our year long 2022-2023 initiative: A More Perfect Union: The Intersection Between Our Stories and Our History. This initiative is a collaboration between the Long Island Writing Project and The Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center as well as the Anti-Racism Project . Funded by a grant from the National Writing Project and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the central goal is to create a year-long professional development project with a multitude of programming events with local communities that explore the immigrant experience and our shared history. The work will begin with a 5 day Summer Institute, from July 11-July 15th, from 9am-3pm (in person) at Nassau Community College. Facilitated by Darshna Katwala and Heidi Atlas, with special guest presenters, this professional learning initiative will provide participants opportunities to engage in guided writing prompts, writing groups, and collaborative inquiry in the Summer Institute and the following academic year.
The professional learning experience will launch with an orientation session that will take place via Zoom followed by a few asynchronous opportunities to build our learning community.
During the Summer Institute, educators will be guided through the process of writing their own family histories with an added emphasis on how this process can be adapted for use in their classrooms. Educators will engage in reading, writing, thinking and articulating ways to tell their own stories, own histories, while considering their identity, memories, and experiences related to their place in the United States. After the Summer Institute, participants will have multiple opportunities to network with colleagues, attend and participate in asynchronous and synchronous activities to further develop curriculum resources, engage in writing, and publish student writing. Curricular resources created may include lists of mentor texts, writing prompts, lesson ideas and activities and an annotated bibliography. Using their collective resources and assets in working with underserved communities, the group will work with local communities to create, gather and share their stories using the humanities based resources of both the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center and the Anti-Racism Project .
Participants will not only engage in rich and rewarding writing experiences that can be brought back to their own classrooms, they will also receive a $1200 stipend at the end of the year-long project. CTLE credits will be available upon request.
The LIWP is looking for educators across grade levels and academic disciplines who are interested in engaging with a group of diverse learners, educators, and scholars from around Long Island, New York and beyond through the National Writing Project network. Middle school and high school educators with a special interest in language arts and history are especially welcomed. Educators who are interested in this amazing opportunity should apply below by June 5, 2022. Spaces are limited.
To apply, click below.
LIWP Summer Institute Kick-Off
Monday, Jul 11, 2022, 09:00 AM
Nassau Community College, Education Drive, Garden City, NY, USA
Thank you to our generous grant sponsors
Long Island Writing Project
The Long Island Writing Project (LIWP) is an official site of the National Writing Project, part of a federally-funded network of 200 sites nationwide and eight sites in New York State. Through our work with teachers in Nassau and Western Suffolk counties, we seek to improve writing, reading and learning in area schools. Since our inception in 1993, over 1000 teachers have participated in our programs.
The LIWP comprises teachers from kindergarten through university. Our seminar leaders are outstanding educators from different grade levels and disciplines in local schools, and we have a strong, ongoing partnership with Hofstra University's Department of Literacy Studies. LIWP teacher-consultants keep up with research and changes in education and their work is grounded in practical classroom approaches. Through our model of teachers teaching teachers, participants in the LIWP strengthen the classroom strategies they already find effective in teaching writing and develop new ones.
One of the most important foundational beliefs of our Project is that teachers improve their knowledge of teaching writing by writing themselves. Another is that the best way to improve our own teaching is through sharing what works with other effective teachers. We welcome your inquiries, and look forward to writing, learning and teaching with you.
The Long Island Writing Project at SUNY Nassau Community College is an approved Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) pursuant to Section 80-6 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education, New York State Education Department (NYSED).
Email: Darshna.Katwala@ncc.edu
Website: https://longislandwritingproject.weebly.com/
Location: Nassau Community College, Education Drive, Garden City, NY, USA
Twitter: @liwpwriters1