2011 nwp annual meeting morning plenary
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This is the accompanying slideshow for the 2011 NWP Annual Meeting morning plenary.TRANSCRIPT
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“Big Ideas” from Morning Strategic Planning Groups
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In the face of austerity and dwindling support for the teaching profession we collaborate with new and existing partners, re-envisioning our goals and mission to support the teachers and students for whom this project was created and do so with efficiency and creativity.
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How do we sustain existing relationships and continue to build new ones in service to our commonly held principles?
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ISI is the heart of our program—building leadership, new knowledge (common core, digital literacies, attracting new participants, etc.). What happens when we change it?
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NWP can sustain itself without sacrificing its core values when sites share ideas with each other about how to navigate changes in the educational and economic landscape.
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How do we stay true to our core values while reinventing ourselves?
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Q: How do we sustain/develop programs with integrity in an era of diminishing/no funds. It takes money to make money.A: A shift in perspective: Sustaining the ISI through continuity and community programs as an investment enterprise.
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Together, embrace a growth mindset using rhetorically sophisticated dialogues with key constituents to increase visibility in order to provide profitable, innovative programs grounded in NWP principles.
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How do we create strategies for making our work more visible and marketable to multiple audiences?
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How do we preserve our NWP identity in work with teachers and students while diversifying funding sources?
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•How do we keep the core values of NWP alive and step outside the box to reinvent ourselves without funding and/or support?
•And how do we sustain it once we figure it out?
•And make visible our success stories?
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How do we define, support, and empower TCs to communicate a writing project stance in an era of top-down mandates?
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How can we collaborate as savvy, pragmatic, principled, and political activists on behalf of inquiry-based education while staying true to our mission?
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How do we sustain what’s essential in a new, dynamic landscape?
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•We need to create new ways to strategically develop programs and partnerships that best meet the needs of our service area without compromising NWP principles.
•The need is great but the sources are out there.
•We will focus on what we have rather than what we’ve lost or don’t have.
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FEDERAL FUNDINGWhat’s New in
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U.S. Department of Education Title II Teacher Quality Program set-aside (Nov 2011)
“Supporting Effective Educator Development Grant Program (SEED)”
Grants scheduled to be announced in Jan 2012
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ESEA Reauthorization andFY2012 Budget
ESEA reauthorization is in process.
Senate version includes a competitive funding stream for “Programs of National Significance.”
Senate version includes a proposal for a 5% set-aside of Title II funds for the next SEED competition.
House version eliminates 1% set-aside of Title II funds.
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NWP RESEARCH AND EVALUATIONWhat’s New in
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NWP Results: 8 Years of LSRI Studies
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Analytic Writing Continuum Assessment System
Assigns analytic and holistic scores Provides reliable data Relies on teacher consultants’ expertise Supports ongoing research about NWP’s
impact Used by teacher-consultants and sites for
teaching, professional development and inquiry
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Continuing Importance of ResearchIncreased emphasis on experimental studies in guiding federal discretionary spending
Source: ESEA Draft Ramps UpRole of Education Research,
Education Week, October 24, 2011
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NWP FUNDRAISINGWhat’s New in
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NWP is committed to working to support fundraising efforts
across the network.
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Why Do People Give?
In good times and bad, we know that people give because your work meets their needs, not because you have needs.
Donors don’t give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe.
It is the job of people who work in foundations to give away money. It is our job to ask.
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Type of Grantmaking Organizations
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Isabel Allende"It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able
to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation
supports the National Writing Project
so that teachers can be more effective
in their efforts to improve literacy for
all students.”
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Individual Giving is 73% of Total
Giving USA: Total 2010 Contributions
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E-CAMPAIGN TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SITES & NWP
TOGETHER WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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SHIFT HAPPENS
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1) Shift toward voluntary association
2) Shift toward flexible opportunity structures
3) Shift toward the “linked” local
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WHY?
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#whyiwrite
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Because I can lie beautiful true things into existence, & let people escape from inside their own heads & see through other eyes. #whyIwrite
@neilhimself:
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Because honesty is a long lost art. #whyiwrite
@chantal_wiebe:
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#whyIwrite To make sense of the world, to hear stories, to tell stories, to feel alive.
@susanorlean:
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Because life is an eternal awakening #whyiwrite
@UNcheckedOther:
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Because I never could hit a curveball . . . #whyIwrite
@DanielPink:
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#whyiwrite Because I have stories in me that need to be told.
@Carpe_Omnes:
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Words be gooder than numbers! #whyiwrite
@Andy_Ricther:
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Because I never trusted the primary school teacher who told me nothing good ever came of day-dreaming. #whyiwrite
@LouMorgan:
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Because I had to give up sexting. #whyIwrite
@BorowitzReport:
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#whyIwrite To leave myself & others a trail of inspiration & memory. To make up for the sad day that I can no longer put a pen to paper.
@didigresses:
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@NYTimesLearning I write because I must. I write because I think. I write to make the world a better place. I write for history.
@DianeRavitch:
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“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” -Gloria Steinem #WhyIWrite
@limsteph:
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#whyiwrite I write to advocate for and inform my constituents on issues that affect their lives. Nat'l Day on Writing: t.co/ZdfwqjwN
@DorisMatsui:
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#whyiwrite to get it out of my head so there's room for more.
@roscannon:
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Because I can make it the best day of someone's life or the worst, I can kill them or have them fall deeply in love. #whyiwrite
@jasonpinter:
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#whyiwrite Because no one responds to my telepathy anymore.
@tora_estep:
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To share. To think. To heal. To amuse. To escape and give escape. And because I simply can't imagine not. That's #whyiwrite
@gregpincus:
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Because I (mostly) hate to talk! #WhyIWrite
@JulesGuitar:
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#whyIwrite An abundance of brain monkeys and a dearth of other skills.
@maureenjohnson:
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#whyiwrite Because I want to make more of the kinds of books I like to read available to others.
@DLMorrese:
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#whyIwrite To slip into other skins (and fully inhabit my own.)
@gaylebrandeis:
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I write because I know my words have power and can change things from the smallest rock to the biggest mountain. #whyiwrite
@SamMiller48:
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Because I still want to believe in the magic world, and writing helps me live there. #whyiwrite
@LaurelSnyder:
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Every time I think I'm just about to run out of words a pink unicorn shows up with a bucket full of more. #whyIwrite
@emoryshatzer:
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Because as hard as it is, it feels worse not to. #whyiwrite #fb
@barrylyga:
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to escape everything that has hurt me, and embrace every good moment. I write to give myself hope for a better day #whyiwrite
@Killpink13:
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My head is haunted, and I write to recreate the thing in my head, in hopes it will leave me and be beautiful #whyiwrite
@agreer:
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#whyiwrite : niet om beroemd te worden maar om een verhaal te kunnen vertellen, je mee te sleuren in de wereld die ik heb gemaakt!
@kimperk:
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to say all the things no one wanted to hear; because i love what words do when you put them next to each other; for sheer joy... #whyiwrite
@Annemazer:
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Because words are more forever than diamonds. #whyiwrite
@theavni:
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Writing is one way I am able to empathize with others whom I most likely don't feel much empathy for. #whyIwrite
@MsTerryMcMillan:
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#whyiwrite An excuse to drink lots, have questionable morals and stay up past my bedtime.
@theginfairy:
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Because I love it. Because I don't have a choice. Because it makes my readers happy. And because it pisses off the literati. #whyiwrite
@jenniferweiner:
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Because my megaphone was confiscated in high school. #whyiwrite
@samplereality:
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Nosiness. #whyiwrite@danagoodyear:
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In the beginning was the Word, which seems like a good way to keep creation going. #whyiwrite
@youvebeenlanged:
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Today is National Day on Writing. #whyIwrite: I write so people can see, hear & feel what I saw, heard & felt w/out ever being there.
@fernandaNYT:
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I like to make people snort milk out of their nose #whyIwrite [but bologna is even better]
@karenfrommentor:
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The reason #whyIwrite is to maintain sanity. It is liberating. It is clarity. It is a gift and a blessing. And I have no other talents.
@MartySmithESPN:
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May I have your attention, please? Listen to this. Pay attention now. Seriously, pay attention to me. Are you listening? #whyiwrite
@tgregcarpenter:
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Because I can lie beautiful true things into existence, & let people escape from inside their own heads & see through other eyes. #whyIwrite
@neilhimself:
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Because honesty is a long lost art. #whyiwrite
@chantal_wiebe:
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#whyIwrite To make sense of the world, to hear stories, to tell stories, to feel alive.
@susanorlean:
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Because life is an eternal awakening #whyiwrite
@UNcheckedOther:
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Because I never could hit a curveball . . . #whyIwrite
@DanielPink:
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#whyiwrite Because I have stories in me that need to be told.
@Carpe_Omnes:
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Words be gooder than numbers! #whyiwrite
@Andy_Ricther:
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Because I never trusted the primary school teacher who told me nothing good ever came of day-dreaming. #whyiwrite
@LouMorgan:
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Because I had to give up sexting. #whyIwrite
@BorowitzReport:
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#whyIwrite To leave myself & others a trail of inspiration & memory. To make up for the sad day that I can no longer put a pen to paper.
@didigresses:
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@NYTimesLearning I write because I must. I write because I think. I write to make the world a better place. I write for history.
@DianeRavitch:
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“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” -Gloria Steinem #WhyIWrite
@limsteph:
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#whyiwrite I write to advocate for and inform my constituents on issues that affect their lives. Nat'l Day on Writing: t.co/ZdfwqjwN
@DorisMatsui:
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#whyiwrite to get it out of my head so there's room for more.
@roscannon:
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Because I can make it the best day of someone's life or the worst, I can kill them or have them fall deeply in love. #whyiwrite
@jasonpinter:
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#whyiwrite Because no one responds to my telepathy anymore.
@tora_estep:
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To share. To think. To heal. To amuse. To escape and give escape. And because I simply can't imagine not. That's #whyiwrite
@gregpincus:
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Because I (mostly) hate to talk! #WhyIWrite
@JulesGuitar:
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#whyIwrite An abundance of brain monkeys and a dearth of other skills.
@maureenjohnson:
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#whyiwrite Because I want to make more of the kinds of books I like to read available to others.
@DLMorrese:
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#whyIwrite To slip into other skins (and fully inhabit my own.)
@gaylebrandeis:
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Email your writings to [email protected]
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Join us here in the Grand Ballroom for the evening plenary and social.
5:30-7:00 PM