2014 Saturday Session Workshops: Teaching for Justice and Equity within the Common Core

Join us for coffee, breakfast, conversation and engaged learning during our 4th annual Saturday Session Workshop Series!

Offered through a special collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Education, this year's workshops include half-day sessions focused on Teaching for Justice and Equity within the Common Core Standards.

Three questions will guide the sessions in this series:
• January 25th, 2014: What is a social justice approach to teaching literacy?
• February 22nd, 2014: How do teachers incorporate themes of justice and equity into their subjects while meeting the CCSS?
• March 29th, 2014: How do teachers respond successfully to the challenges of incorporating a social justice approach to teaching?

All workshops are led by practicing educators affiliated with the Minnesota Writing Project. For more information see the registration form attached below.

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COST: $50 per session - Graduate credit option available for attendance at all three. 
WHERE: Minnesota Department of Education - Conference Center A - 1500 Highway 36 West - Roseville, MN 55113. WHEN: 9:00am - 12:30pm (see dates above) - Continental breakfast provided.

TO REGISTER: 
Download & complete the 2014 Saturday Session Workshop Flyer.pdf. Send to the address included. Contact MWP for available space (MWP@umn.edu).

Open to all interested educators. Come alone or bring a friend. Come to one or come to all!!

MWP 7th Annual Fall Workshop - October 5

Join us for our 7th Annual Fall Workshop to be held on Saturday, October 5th, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This year's theme will focus on Creating Communities Through Literacy and will feature Jonathan Odell, author of The View from Delphi and The Healing.

Morning activities will include breakout sessions by MWP Teachers devoted to community and justice in classrooms, as well as a roundtable discussion by teachers involved in MWP's collaboration with the Trondheim Writing Project in Norway.

WHEN: Saturday, October 5th
WHERE: MN Dept. of Ed. Conference Center A, 1500 Highway 36 W, Roseville, MN 55113
COST: $75 - includes registration, continental breakfast, and lunch

TO REGISTER: Send payment by Friday, September 13th to MWP, 10 Nicholson Hall, 216 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. (Please make checks payable to University of Minnesota.)

For additional information, see the 2013 Fall Workshop flyer.pdf, email MWP@umn.edu or call 612-625-6323.

2013 MWP Summer Offerings

In addition to our 23rd Invitational Summer Institute, MWP will offer the following June programs open to all teachers:

* Course: Writing for Social Justice

* Advanced Institute

* Author Visit: Joyce Sidman










CI 5410: Writing for Social Justice
June 17-21; 25, 27: 2013, (9-3)

This summer we will offer a 3-credit graduate course, open to teachers from any discipline, K-College, including those who have already attended the Invitational Summer Institute. The MWP Open Institute course will focus on writing for change and social justice, exploring themes of social justice through writing, teaching and learning. In addition to writing, participants will read from course texts such as Linda Christensen's Reading, Writing, and Rising Up and Teaching for Joy and Justice. For more information see course flyer below.

Open Institute 2013.pdf

Minnesota Writing Project Advanced Institute: A Collaboration with Norway's Trondheim Writing Project
June 24-28 2013

As many of you know, MWP leaders were invited to Norway to share information about our site in 2011 and Norwegian educators visited us in 2012 leading to four teachers from Norway attending last summer's Invitational Summer Institute Now, our colleagues in Norway have embarked on creating their own Writing Project site and first Summer Institute in Trondheim, Norway.

Our Advanced Institute will take place during the same week as the Trondheim Writing Project's Summer Institute, so we can engage in a shared cross-cultural inquiry into how writing is taught and how teachers can learn together in Norway and the United States. There will be no cost to attend this Advanced Institute (other than your own transportation and parking costs), and we hope you will find the mix of writing, reading, and discussing during this week together enriching for your own practice as a teacher and writer.

To apply for this special opportunity, please contact MWP@umn.edu, 612-625-6323. You will then be connected with the group leaders who will send you an application.


Author Talk - Wednesday, June 26th 2013

Author Joyce Sidman will be the guest presenter at this year's retreat for the 23rd Annual Invitational Summer Institute on Wednesday, June 26th, 2013. Sidman has written several poetry books for children, including Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night.

See Sidmans's website for more information about her work. http://www.joycesidman.com/





For more information on any of these summer offerings please contact MWP@umn.edu, 612-625-6323

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