Professional Development can go hand-in-hand with a summer getaway! Think about seeing a new place and learning something too. Here’s what other readers mentioned as great summertime p.d. opportunities to help you enhance your teaching of writing. Just click on the hyperlink to go straight to the website.
ARIZONA
NWP Professional Writing Retreat in mid-July.
INDIANA
All-Write’s Institute happens in late June in Shipshewana.
NATIONWIDE
Responsive Classroom Week-Long Institutes (Not exactly focused on Writing Instruction, but anything that can help one with classroom management, can help a person with leading a tighter Writing Workshop with one’s kids, right?)
National Writing Project (Check to find out what your state offers.)
NEW HAMPSHIRE
University of New Hampshire Writing Program in Durham (Check the site for dates.)
NEW MEXICO
Ellin Olliver Keene and Bruce Morgan will be presenting in late June/early July.
NEW YORK
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Summer Institutes (Week-long Institutes throughout the summer.)
NORTH CAROLINA
Developing Curriculum for Writing Workshops with Katie Wood Ray in Asheville in late June.
PENNSYLVANIA
Making Writing Workshop Work at Millersville University in early August.
VERMONT
Breadloaf at Middlebury College (Check the site for courses and dates.)
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Ohio:
Lakota Literacy VIEW (http://www.lakotaonline.com/files/filesystem/VIEWbrochure2009.pdf)
4 days of up-close and personal with many experts. This year featuring Lester Laminack, Carl Anderson, Katherine Bomer, Ellin Keene, Susan Zimmerman, and Penny Kittle. I’ve attended the past two years and it is well worth the money and time!
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