National Writing Project E Voice

Welcome to E-Voice, the National Writing Project's bi-monthly email newsletter that provides news updates, links to articles of interest to writing teachers, and other information about the NWP community. Read the current issue.

Resources for parents and educators: Adolescent Literacy.or

Adolescent literacy.org is a resource for parents and educators of kids in grades 4-12. It's a free e-newsletter and it's got a nice balance of writing and reading resources as well as blogs, multimedia videos with experts and YA authors as well as literacy strategies.

Right now I'm watching a video by Dr. Steve Graham of Vanderbilt University. It's long, so it would be a great shot of PD for spring break. Not only does he talk about why he was interested in writing, he also says that the best preparation for writing teachers is to go through writing project.

He also talks about self-regulated strategy development, peer revising, collaborative writing and grammar instruction.

Happy Square Root Day!

I'd like to officially say that although most of us at the Lehua Writing Project are current or former English teachers, we are NOT allergic to our math colleagues, and in fact we are more alike than not. So in that spirit, Happy Square Root Day! (3/3/09) For the math challenged amongst us, 3 is the square root of 9 8-)

The last square root day was on Feb. 2, 2004, and the next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.

Enjoy the day by reading a math children's book like:
Math Curse by John Scieszka
Your Momma Thinks Square Roots are Vegetables by Bill Amend
The Grapes of Math by Bill Tang or
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Reporting Data

Pat and Paul suggested that LWP go online site profile to get the categories to get the categories for collecting data.

Resources on http://www.nwp.org

Please check out these great online resources through NWP. These are reading resources that will help support the work of the Writing Project. http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/nwpsites/summer_institute.csp

Viva la Revolución: Transforming Teaching and Assessing Student Writing through Collaborative Inquiry http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2655

Nominate a Teacher to Attend SI 2009

Aloha, We are requesting your nominations for teachers who you feel who benefit, enjoy, and contribute to SI 2009! Our best recruiters are teachers who have been through the writing project, so we want your nominations!


We have a flier we'd like to you mail to teachers who you think might be interested in the LWP. It is located in the SIDEBAR of http://www.lehuawritingproject.pbwiki.com. Please take a few moments to consider who you might nominate. E-mail them your invitation and the flier, and e-mail us, your nomination/recommendation.
hirtle@hawaii.edu and cathyi@hawaii.edu

MAHALO!

Lehua Writing Project Invitations

Aloha,

We have two events for the Lehua Writing Project. They are both "meet and greets" to talk to national leaders,Pat Fox and Paul Oh. We are inviting Lehuas to one or both events and/but for your convenience we have put an event on the west side and on the east side.

East Side, Friday, February 20th from 5-7 @ UH Hilo in UCB 312
West Side, Saturday, February 21 from 9-11@ Parker Ranch Food Court

We miss you all and want to see you at one or both of these events and we want your input to the national leadership about your perception of writing on the Big Island. We want all your ideas as we build our new writing project. Any of you who want to contribute and/or play a leadership role, we welcome!

Please RSVP so we know how many people to prepare for!

Thanks,
Cathy and Jeannine