WELCOME TO THE
OKLAHOMA WRITING PROJECT
PASSPORT TO NEW DESTINATIONS
Scroll through our remaining live Destinations, as well as the Destinations with recordings and resources (available through July 31st). Join us for great ideas and hands-on activities for engaging young writers while developing and strengthening their writing skills.
*NOTE SESSION CHANGES:
Destination #12, "Effective Feedback & Rubrics" with Carole Morris, originally scheduled for June 18th, will be rescheduled for Friday, July 9th at 2:30.
Destination #16, "Writing All the Live Long Day" with Audra Plummer on June 24th has changed from 3:30pm to 10:00am.
*NOTE SESSION CHANGES:
Destination #12, "Effective Feedback & Rubrics" with Carole Morris, originally scheduled for June 18th, will be rescheduled for Friday, July 9th at 2:30.
Destination #16, "Writing All the Live Long Day" with Audra Plummer on June 24th has changed from 3:30pm to 10:00am.
Quick Look in the Table Below
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OWP Literacy Camps
Oklahoma State Department of Education has released ESSR II funding. You may use these funds to extend student learning into the summer!
Oklahoma Writing Project has developed engaging and hands-on literacy summer camps to assist schools in helping students continue learning through the summer days. Summer Camps will be taught by Oklahoma Certified teachers who are also Oklahoma Writing Project Teacher Consultants. These Teacher Consultants have been in Oklahoma classrooms with their own students during this pandemic and have created sessions and owpcodirector@yahoo.comactivities to meet the literacy needs of students.
These camps can be designed specifically for your student and school needs. We will come to your buildings or conduct virtually--whichever best meets the needs of your students. Literacy skills are aligned with Oklahoma Academic Standards.
See flyer below. If you would like more information about these opportunities--please email owpcodirector@yahoo.com. We can discuss fees and the services Oklahoma Writing Project will provide.
Oklahoma Writing Project has developed engaging and hands-on literacy summer camps to assist schools in helping students continue learning through the summer days. Summer Camps will be taught by Oklahoma Certified teachers who are also Oklahoma Writing Project Teacher Consultants. These Teacher Consultants have been in Oklahoma classrooms with their own students during this pandemic and have created sessions and owpcodirector@yahoo.comactivities to meet the literacy needs of students.
These camps can be designed specifically for your student and school needs. We will come to your buildings or conduct virtually--whichever best meets the needs of your students. Literacy skills are aligned with Oklahoma Academic Standards.
See flyer below. If you would like more information about these opportunities--please email owpcodirector@yahoo.com. We can discuss fees and the services Oklahoma Writing Project will provide.
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Stakeholder Meeting Agenda:
9:30-9:45--Quick-write
9:45-10:00 Oklahoma Writing Project: Should we stay OKWP or go back OWP?
10:00-10:30--Summer PD Opportunities--Summer Institute, Summer Camps
10:30-10:45--Continuity Activities
10:45-11:00 Website/Listserv Updates
Complete survey below let me know you are coming and/or leave ideas you would like to discuss during our meeting.
Even if you can't come--leave your ideas on the survey.
Those who RSVP will be sent Zoom link information in email.
9:30-9:45--Quick-write
9:45-10:00 Oklahoma Writing Project: Should we stay OKWP or go back OWP?
10:00-10:30--Summer PD Opportunities--Summer Institute, Summer Camps
10:30-10:45--Continuity Activities
10:45-11:00 Website/Listserv Updates
Complete survey below let me know you are coming and/or leave ideas you would like to discuss during our meeting.
Even if you can't come--leave your ideas on the survey.
Those who RSVP will be sent Zoom link information in email.
Summer Institute 2021
The Oklahoma Writing Project is currently making plans to host its Invitational Summer Institute (SI) for June 7 - 25, 2021. Teachers of all subjects (PreK-College) gather to explore, discuss, and share best practices and research around writing as a tool for learning, as well as the teaching of writing. Joining a community of master teachers from across the state, SI Fellows return to their classrooms with renewed enthusiasm, confidence in their own writing, and a host of strategies and practices to shape and nurture an evolving classroom practice. The link to the application provides greater detail about the 2021 SI.
Newman Prize for English Jueju
The 2021 Newman Prize for English Jueju
If you like word games, poetry, or both, try your hand at this year’s Newman Prize for English Jueju, sponsored by the Institute for US-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma. This year there will be a $500 prize for the best English Jueju in four categories (Elementary, Middle, High School, adult/college, as well as the Best English Jueju from other US states and the UK! There is only one catch — the winning English poem must follow the rules of Classical Chinese Poetry. Learn the rules, as well as access learning videos, games, word lists and other resources at link.ou.edu/english-jueju-resources.
Sign up for Teacher Training Sessions and receive Professional Development Certificates every Saturday in February!
https://oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkd-irqj8jHtIzPGhkjdL2CVC56YKoJ38r
Submit your poem by March 5, 2021 at newmanpoetryaward@ou.edu.
Winner will be invited to an online award ceremony held in conjunction with the 2021 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature ceremony celebrating the Chinese novelist Yan Lianke on March 18th.
For more information, visit link.ou.edu/english-jueju
If you like word games, poetry, or both, try your hand at this year’s Newman Prize for English Jueju, sponsored by the Institute for US-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma. This year there will be a $500 prize for the best English Jueju in four categories (Elementary, Middle, High School, adult/college, as well as the Best English Jueju from other US states and the UK! There is only one catch — the winning English poem must follow the rules of Classical Chinese Poetry. Learn the rules, as well as access learning videos, games, word lists and other resources at link.ou.edu/english-jueju-resources.
Sign up for Teacher Training Sessions and receive Professional Development Certificates every Saturday in February!
https://oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkd-irqj8jHtIzPGhkjdL2CVC56YKoJ38r
Submit your poem by March 5, 2021 at newmanpoetryaward@ou.edu.
Winner will be invited to an online award ceremony held in conjunction with the 2021 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature ceremony celebrating the Chinese novelist Yan Lianke on March 18th.
For more information, visit link.ou.edu/english-jueju
Teacher Consultants are invited to
MORE!!! Playing with Sound, Image, and Body:
A Poetry Writing Workshop
Hosted by Dr. Crag Hill
Join Dr. Hill, OKWP Director, for a Poetry Saturday
See Events Page for details and registration.
Write to Win Writing Contest
Entries due January 19, 2021
See Events page for details.
Banned Books Week
September 27 - October 3, 2020
September 27 - October 3, 2020
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Click HERE for lists of the most frequently challenged books.
Click HERE for the Top 10 Most Challenged Book Lists. For more information and resources: ALA Banned Books Week Twitter: @BannedBooksWeek Faceboook: @bannedbooksweek Instagram: @banned_books_week |
Write Out
October 11 - October 25, 2020
October 11 - October 25, 2020
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Write Out is a free two-week event—October 11-25, 2020—organized as a series of online activities where educators, students, and the public are invited to explore national parks and other public spaces to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. Write Out is in its third year and is sponsored by the National Writing Project and the National Park Service. The theme of this year’s event is Stories Around the Campfire which connects to the National Park Service theme for October.
Sign-up HERE for more information from NWP, and follow @WriteOutConnect on Twitter, Facebook, Flipgrid, or Padlet. |
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The KQED Youth Media Challenge: Let’s Talk About Election 2020 gives middle and high school students an opportunity to put their persuasive skills to work in front of a real audience. Each student will:
Learn more and participate HERE.
Learn more about the NWP / KQED partnership HERE.
- Choose an election-related issue that matters to them
- Write an evidence-based commentary on the issue
- Share their personal experience and authentic voice
- Create their audio or video commentary
- Publish their audio or video commentary on the Election 2020 challenge showcase page (launching in January 2020)
- Practice critical 21st-century skills aligned with Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and Civically Engaged Writing Analysis Continuum (CEWAC) Standards
Learn more and participate HERE.
Learn more about the NWP / KQED partnership HERE.
Webinar Series:
Critical and Creative Strategies for Remote Teaching
September 2020 - April 2021
Presented by the Chippewa River Writing Project
Critical and Creative Strategies for Remote Teaching
September 2020 - April 2021
Presented by the Chippewa River Writing Project
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"In an effort to inquire into the world-building possibilities that Minecraft offers English Language Arts educators and young writers, teachers of the National Writing Project network have created 10 writing lessons related to world-building. These activities invite youth to play with the connections between creative writing and creative gaming."
Learn more about the activities HERE and view Minecraft resources HERE.
Learn more about the activities HERE and view Minecraft resources HERE.
Middle and High School Writing Resources
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The WRITE (Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation) Center for Secondary Students researches academic writing in middle and high school. We are extending evidence-based practices learned in the English language arts classrooms from three nationally recognized interventions into history classes. The WRITE Center is excited to provide middle and high school history teachers with the tools and strategies to improve their students' writing, a critical component not only of Common Core State Standards, but academic and professional writing.
We partner with teachers and administrators to create professional development opportunities. We use quantitative and qualitative research methods, including data mining techniques and automated natural language processing, to look at existing source-based writing samples from ELA classes to understand the longitudinal development of writers, which will then be compared to writing in history classes to understand the similarities and differences between the two contexts.
Learn more about Write Center, their Webinars and Resources HERE.
We partner with teachers and administrators to create professional development opportunities. We use quantitative and qualitative research methods, including data mining techniques and automated natural language processing, to look at existing source-based writing samples from ELA classes to understand the longitudinal development of writers, which will then be compared to writing in history classes to understand the similarities and differences between the two contexts.
Learn more about Write Center, their Webinars and Resources HERE.
Looking for a new podcast?
National Writing Project Radio
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Why I Write Podcast from NCTE
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Book Love with Penny Kittle and Julia Torres
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Heinemann Podcast
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Mind/Shift from KQED
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The Atlantic Interview
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Cult of Pedagogy
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The Teaching Tolerance website, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, provides resources for kindergarten through high school teachers and students.
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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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To learn more about and register for upcoming events, visit our Eventbrite page!
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