Genesee Valley Writing Project
2016 Invitational Summer Institute
Application Process Overview
· Applications are now open for the Invitational Summer Institute. Fellows will come together for module writing, research and reading, and writing/publishing. Current teacher consultants may also join us.
· Applications for the 2016 Invitational Summer Institute should be sent to the following address by April 29, 2016:
Joanne Larson
Director, Genesee Valley Writing Project
University of Rochester
Warner Graduate School of Education
478 LeChase Hall, Box 270425
Rochester, New York 14627
· Applications should include the following: (1) attached cover page; (2) one to two page personal statement based on the prompts provided in the application;
· Applications also can be downloaded from the Genesee Valley Writing Project Web site at www.rochester.edu/warner/gvwp.
· Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Qualified applicants will be notified of acceptance by May 16.
· Fellows must attend one mandatory Pre-Institute meeting scheduled for Saturday, June 18, 2016 on the University of Rochester River Campus in LeChase Hall.
· 2016 Summer Institute Details:
Dates: July 5 through July 22, 4 days per week (Note there will be 2 weeks where the 4 days will be M, T, Th, F, rather than M-Th)
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: University of Rochester River Campus, LeChase Hall
Benefits: Three graduate credit hours at the Warner School of Education (participants will be required to first use any employee tuition benefits or other applicable scholarships and tuition waivers, with the remainder to be covered by a Warner School tuition waiver); the chance to collaborate with outstanding colleagues; membership in a local and national network of Writing Project Fellows. Approximately 85 hours of professional development may be used toward your district’s PD hours requirement.
· For more information about the Summer Institute, please contact Joanne Larson at 585-275-0900 or by e-mail at . To learn more about the National Writing project, please consult their Web site at www.nwp.org.
Application for the Genesee Valley Writing Project
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We envision an institute that would focus on the following three areas:
1. Common Core Module writing
a. We will learn from senior teacher consultants who are our leaders in the New York State National Writing Project Literacy Design Collaborative. Institute attendees will learn how to design modules based on Common Core Standards, with the goal of having a module to take back to their classrooms. For East teachers, we will connect these modules to the UbD Unit Planning document used at their school.
2. Research and publishing
a. One of the writing pieces in the Summer Institute will focus on research and/or professional piece designed for an authentic audience. We will support this project in the SI and help fellows take their work public either through a publication or a presentation to their peers.
3. Collaborative writing project
a. Writing project teachers are unique in their perspective on teaching and learning, specifically the teaching and learning of writing. What makes us unique? How does participating in the National Writing Project transform us? For this project, we will examine ourselves and our teaching and write a collaborative piece that we would submit for publication to a journal like Research in the Teaching of English or English Journal or make public in a digital space.
Given our current plans, please respond to the following prompts in a brief informal piece of writing:
1. What have you done to cope with the Common Core in your classroom?
2. Describe how you hope to be transformed through participating in the GVWP summer institute?
3. What research interests do you have in the teaching and learning of writing? How might you use the summer institute to expand on these interests?