Contact Information
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UMWP
P.O. Box 9
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
662.915.7925
umwp@olemiss.edu
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UMWP January 2010 Newsletter
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Summer Institute
Applications Are Out and About!
2010 Summer Institute Applications have hit the mailboxes
at your school. Look for the brochures
in your school mailboxes.
If you haven't seen the application and you need one to
pass along to a colleague, please call the office (662-915-7925) or download an
application from the web site. Just follow this link: 2010 Summer Institute Application .
Please encourage motivated teachers in your school to
apply. The deadline for applications is
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Register Now for Spring Workshops!
Follow the link to the Registration Form: 2010 Spring Workshop Registration Form
Beyond the Basics: What Do I Do Now?
Even the best classroom
practitioners need new energy and new ideas. This three Saturday seminar
series will provide an opportunity for teachers to explore current best writing
practices designed to move students beyond the basics. Sessions include interactive presentations on
special topics related to writing at the elementary, middle, and high school
levels focusing on building community, cross-curriculuar instruction, and
critical thinking skills. Teachers will have the opportunity to critique
and discuss their own writing instructional practices as they learn ways to
implement new strategies.
Dates: January 30, February 13, March 6, 2010
Location: UM Oxford
Campus
Time: 8:30-12:30
Registration Fee: $225.00 (Schools may send five teachers for the
price of four!)
1.8 CEUs Available for a $20 fee for a $20 fee if all
sessions attended
Content-Area Writing
Writing in math, science, and social studies? Isn't that an English teacher's job? Yet, as educators, we know that writing well
is an important skill in all subject areas. New and experienced K-16 teachers
will engage in a collaborative approach to viewing the world through different
lenses as they use writing in a variety of content areas: science, social
studies, and math. The theory and practice of 'Writing to Learn' approaches
will be examined through demonstrations and writing and sharing in
disciplined-focused and grade-level groups.
Mathematics - January 30, 2010
Social Studies - February 13, 2010
Science - March 6, 2010
Location: UM Oxford
Campus
Time: 8:30-12:30
Registration Fee: $100.00 per session or $250 for all three sessions
(Districts may combine three content-area teachers for this
workshop)
1.8 CEUs Available for a $20 fee if all sessions attended
More than Meeting a Mandate: Exploring
Artifacts of Racial Memory
February is
Black History Month and what better way can to prepare to meet the State Senate
Bill that mandates the teaching of civil rights and human rights in all
Mississippi K-12 classrooms? Teachers
will learn ways to use artifacts such as places, people, documents, stories,
photographs, and more to educate and enlighten your students about issues of
race and our state and local histories.
Teachers will have activities and projects to use in your classroom on
Monday!
Dates: February 6 and February 20, 2010
Location: UM Oxford
Campus
Time: 8:30-12:30
Registration Fee: $100.00
1.2 CEUs Available for a $20 fee if all sessions attended
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National Reading Initiative Events
What's Next: Possibilities for Literacy and Content Area Learning
A National Reading Initiative Conference
March 5-6, 2010
Hotel Monteleone
New Orleans, Louisiana
This
conference examines the intersections of interesting threads of work
related to adolescent literacy and content area learning by addressing
the following questions:
- What is a text and what should we know about reading and writing texts in different disciplines?
- What does strong interdisciplinary work look like?
- What is the role of inquiry in content area learning?
- What is discipline-specific in reading and writing?
- What role do digital literacies play in content area learning?
- How can writing project sites and schools organize to work toward deeper understanding and new practices?
The conference is free, but you must reserve your place by submitting a refundable deposit along with your online registration (see below).
The deposit will hold your registration and will be returned to you
when you sign in at the registration table on Friday, March 5. Any registrant who does not attend the conference will forfeit her or his deposit.
Deadline: January 22, 2010
For more information, follow the link: A National Reading Initiative Conference
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The 2010 Memorial Library Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education in New York City
July 6-19, 2010
New York, New York
The
Holocaust Educators Network, in partnership with the National Writing
Project, announces 24 fellowships for NWP teacher-consultants in the
Rural Sites Network to attend the Memorial Library Summer Seminar on
Holocaust Education in New York City. The program is open to NWP
teacher-consultants in the Rural Sites Network and other teachers
across the NWP who can show critical needs.
Using an
inquiry-based approach, this program will encourage teachers to think
creatively and collaboratively about methods and approaches for
teaching the Holocaust. The seminar will consider how we engage
students with difficult material such as hatred, prejudice, and
state-sanctioned genocide, and how writing, dialogue, and inquiry can
help us develop empathy and move us toward action. While the focus is
on the Holocaust, attention will also be given to more recent genocides.
The
seminar is sponsored by the Memorial Library and by Lehman College and
the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Deadline: January 15, 2010. For more information, please follow the link: Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education
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We hope to see you at another UMWP event soon!
Stay Warm!
Sincerely, Ellen Shelton
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