Programs for Educators
Registration Open
Write Where You Are Honoring Voices Across Communities Date: August 3, 2021 Time: 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. plus optional afternoon activity Location: Via Zoom followed by optional meetup at CVNP Led by: NWP-KSU Teacher Leaders and Heather Berenson, Education Specialist at CVNP For the third year in a row, NWP-KSU has received a mini-grant from the National Writing Project to collaborate with Cuyahoga Valley National Park. This year’s theme, Honoring Voices Across Communities, will examine ways to integrate the park’s unique history and cross-curricular writing in the classroom in conjunction with diverse mentor texts, explore how to use podcasts to celebrate sharing of place, provide an opportunity to participate with other educators in place-based writing and contribute to a digital sharing platform that could also be implemented your own classroom! Download the flyer and share it with colleagues. Register online through July 26. |
National Writing Project:
Write Out Resources Available Even though the national Write Out ended October 25, teachers and students can still take advantage of the resources! Writing prompts, stories, and other sources of inspiration will remain available at https://writeout.nwp.org/. Amy Krajeck of St. Michael School created an engaging series of lessons centered on the "Stories Around the Campfire" theme. Click to read more about how she incorporated placed-based learning throughout the first quarter of the school year, culminating in a storytelling session. 
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Workshops
NWP-KSU offers workshops in the teaching of writing. 2021 events will include a Write Where You Are workshop at Cuyahoga Valley National Park and a Kernels of Wisdom narrative writing workshop at Kent State University. |
Book Clubs
The Wandering Book Club meets in the Akron-Cleveland area throughout the school year. Mahoning Valley Book Club meets year-round at the border of Boardman and Canfield. |
Programs for Schools
Educator In-Service: Reading and Writing Workshops
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NWP-KSU will custom design professional development packages based on your organization's goals and needs. These sessions help teachers work toward student improvement in writing and reading across the content areas, which leads to student success on state-required tests. We specifically have in-services designed to help teachers meet Ohio's Learning Standards.
In operation since 1997, NWP-KSU in-service programs have consistently received excellent ratings and results in classrooms and school districts throughout Ohio. We can provide whole-school, department and/or grade-level sessions, as well as classroom demos and book studies. |
The following workshops and programs can be customized to meet individual schools' needs:
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• Writing Craft
• Content Area Literacy • Close Reading Strategies • Revision and Editing |
• Technology and Writing
• Multi-genre Research • Working with Rubrics • Developing Listening and Speaking Skills |
• Using Research
• Writing/Reading Workshop • Informational Writing • Argumentative Writing |
• Narrative Writing
• Response to Literature • Evaluating and Assessing Student Work • Text Complexity |
Thirty teachers is the maximum for an in-service.
On-site custom service: $250 per hour
One-half day (3 hours): $650
Full day (6 hours): $1,250
Mileage may be an additional charge, depending on distance covered for the duration of the in-service.
Contact us to schedule an in-service program.
On-site custom service: $250 per hour
One-half day (3 hours): $650
Full day (6 hours): $1,250
Mileage may be an additional charge, depending on distance covered for the duration of the in-service.
Contact us to schedule an in-service program.
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