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OKLAHOMA WRITING PROJECT
Nominate an Outstanding TC
In honor of Martha Mills and Francis Dunham, OKWP created the Martha and Francis Award. This award honors an outstanding TC who has contributed to the continual growth of OKWP. Nominations are simple, and we encourage you to nominate your fellow TCs for this well-deserved recognition!
Nominations are due by July 6, 2020.
Nominations are due by July 6, 2020.
Nominate an outstanding TC through this link: http://goo.gl/forms/bxastYaIcAUy3TVG3
Interactive Webinars to Support
Teachers' Hybrid and Remote Literacy Instruction
The WRITE Center has announced a summer learning series for teachers.
The WRITE Center is a national center based at the University of California, Irvine, committed to sharing evidence-based practices for teaching source-based argument writing in secondary classrooms. The center partners with teachers and administrators, including the UC Irvine Writing Project, to create relevant and practical professional development opportunities. They are offering a four-part series, "Interactive Webinars to Support Teachers’ Hybrid and Remote Literacy Instruction" beginning on July 1.
For more information and to register for the following webinars, please visit the WRITE Center website.
The WRITE Center is a national center based at the University of California, Irvine, committed to sharing evidence-based practices for teaching source-based argument writing in secondary classrooms. The center partners with teachers and administrators, including the UC Irvine Writing Project, to create relevant and practical professional development opportunities. They are offering a four-part series, "Interactive Webinars to Support Teachers’ Hybrid and Remote Literacy Instruction" beginning on July 1.
For more information and to register for the following webinars, please visit the WRITE Center website.
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Designing Purposeful and Engaging Arcs of Writing Instruction in an Era of Remote Learning
July 1 10am-12pm (PST) 1-3pm (EST) 
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Dr. Troy Hicks
In this session, Hicks will consider ways in which teachers can create arcs of instruction that utilize effective teaching practices across physical and virtual spaces. He focuses on three questions: What principles of teaching writing still hold true across face-to-face, online, or hybrid spaces? What patterns of writing, response, and revision can still be accomplished over an arc of instruction lasting from a few days to a few weeks? Which technology tools can help us maintain relationships and build community with our writers, as well as expand their opportunities for writing into multimodal forms? |
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Narrative Writing: Now More Than Ever
July 8 10am-12pm (PST) 1-3pm (EST) 
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Kelly Gallagher
Don Graves told students: “You have stories to tell that only you can tell.” This has never been more true than in the midst of a global pandemic. In this session, Kelly Gallagher will argue that narrative writing should be taught to all students in all grade levels. He will share techniques proven to help young writers find and write their stories. |
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Writing Poetry to Read Poetry in Online Spaces
July 15 10am-12pm (PST) 1-3pm (EST) 
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Carol Jago
Wordsworth defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tranquility.” But so much depends upon students asking great questions of a poem-- questions that lead to deep inquiry and richer learning. In this session, Jago will demonstrate techniques to help students understand the poet’s craft and develop intellectual stamina and fluency, skills they need more than ever for online & offline learning. She will demonstrate ways to inspire students to write their own poems, and in writing, better understand the tools poets use for expression. |
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Designing Academic Writing Assignments for All Students, All Environments, All Classrooms
July 22 10am-12pm (PST) 1-3 (EST) 
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Jim Burke Design thinking offers us all a useful model for solving a range of instructional problems, especially when it comes to teaching academic writing. Participants in this workshop will learn how to apply the key principles from Jim Burke’s framework for designing academic writing assignments whether teaching in-person, online, or some combination of the two.
In this session, Jim will share insights from his own experience teaching classes online throughout the quarantine. |
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There is No Apolitical Classroom:
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Click here to read the statement from NCTE's Standing Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English and explore the resources they have assembled to help teachers and students combat racism and bias in the classroom.
The Teaching Tolerance website, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, provides resources for kindergarten through high school teachers and students. They state:
Our mission is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy.
Our program emphasizes social justice and anti-bias. The anti-bias approach encourages children and young people to challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives. Our Social Justice Standards show how anti-bias education works through the four domains of identity, diversity, justice and action.
Our program emphasizes social justice and anti-bias. The anti-bias approach encourages children and young people to challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives. Our Social Justice Standards show how anti-bias education works through the four domains of identity, diversity, justice and action.
Writing Our Future: American Creed is part of the National Writing Project's family of youth publishing projects, all gathered under the Writing Our Future initiative.
Writing Our Future: American Creed invites...
Youth (13+) and young adults: Add your voice to the conversations sparked by the PBS documentary film American Creed. You can learn more about the film at americancreed.org.
Educators—teachers, librarians, and youth mentors: Engage young people as they work towards responding to the film through writing, media, or art using any of the invitations to write included on this site. Educators can create accounts for youth at their school site or learning center to publish their work to a national, or even international, audience.
Note: The documentary aired on PBS in February 2018 and remains available for educators to stream on the PBS website. The youth publishing website will remain open through 2019. A promotional toolkit is also available to help spread the word about this exciting project.
For more information and to view responses from around the United States, please visit the National Writing Project.
Writing Our Future: American Creed invites...
Youth (13+) and young adults: Add your voice to the conversations sparked by the PBS documentary film American Creed. You can learn more about the film at americancreed.org.
Educators—teachers, librarians, and youth mentors: Engage young people as they work towards responding to the film through writing, media, or art using any of the invitations to write included on this site. Educators can create accounts for youth at their school site or learning center to publish their work to a national, or even international, audience.
Note: The documentary aired on PBS in February 2018 and remains available for educators to stream on the PBS website. The youth publishing website will remain open through 2019. A promotional toolkit is also available to help spread the word about this exciting project.
For more information and to view responses from around the United States, please visit the National Writing Project.
Where does OKWP work?
The Oklahoma Writing Project has provided professional development recently in all of the counties above that have been darkened.
Is OKWP effective?
Deb Wade is Director of Elementary Language Arts Education for Oklahoma and a graduate and former graduate and director of OKWP!
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Brooke Meiller (left) is Executive Director of School Support & Improvement for Oklahoma and a graduate of OK Writing Institute. Jason Stephenson (right) is Director of Secondary Language Arts Education for Oklahoma and former graduate and director of OKWP!
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Skye Spears (middle), Teacher of the Year, Eisenhower Elementary School (Norman) and former graduate of OKWP!
Ray Robinson (left), Teacher of the Year, Highland West Junior High School (Moore Schools) and former graduate of OKWP!
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Sandi Hebert, Teacher of the Year, Whitebead Public Schools, former graduate of OKWP and new co-director of OKWP!
Joshua Flores, former Director of Secondary Language Arts Education for Oklahoma.
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