The 2012 NWP Invitational Summer Institute

The 2012 ISI will be held on the FGCU campus from June 18-29. For more detailed information and the application form, click here.

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Spring 2012 Technology Workshop Series

This technology series will be offered over six sessions starting April 7, 2012 and culminating on the first day of the NWP Invitational Summer Institute on June 18. For more detailed information and the application, click on this link.

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NWP's Greatest Hits!!!!

The one-day conference was a...HIT!!!. Click here for a schedule of the presentations and click here to access the presentations.

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The 2011 Invitational Summer Institute of the National Writing Project will be held at Florida Gulf Coast University from June 27 to July 20. There will be two mandatory orientation sessions on April 16 and May 7. To read more about the 2011 ISI and/or to apply, click here.

Click on the graphic above to read the booklet Greetings from Florida: Come Write with Us! put together by a shining group of our own Teacher Consultants and distributed at the 2011 NWP Annual Meeting in Orlando in November, 2010. It includes teaching strategies for writing submitted by TCs who have attended Invitational Summer Institutes hosted by the NWP @ FGCU. Great work, TCs!!!

Message from the Sanibel School Family & the NWP at FGCU

Carol Caldwell Smith passed away Dec. 15 after a long battle with cancer.  During her 23 years teaching in Lee County she touched the lives of numerous students and colleagues.  Carol began her teaching career in Lee County teaching middle school language arts at Fort Myers Middle School.  After 11 years she moved to Gulf Middle before transferring to The Sanibel School, where she has flourished for the last 11 years.  She was one of the first teachers in Lee County to become National Board Certified and was the Lee County Language Arts Teacher of the Year in 2007.

Carol was a dedicated language arts professional, sharing her expertise with other educators throughout the district.  She served on many training cadres and was instrumental in improving student writing not only in her own classroom, but in the classrooms of her colleagues. Carol was also a 2001 participant in the National Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute. 

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made on Carol’s behalf to breast cancer awareness through the Susan G. Komen website at http://ww5.komen.org/donate/donate.html.

Please keep Carol's family in your thoughts and prayers.

The 2010 Invitational Summer Institute had 24 participants summer, 2010...the biggest ever!!! Stacey Elmeer coordinated the curriculum for the ISI and was assisted by Mena Granatino, Karen Torres, and Bambi Fischer. It was a great success!!! Great work Stacy, Mena, Karen, Bambi & TCs!!!

• Lois Christensen, Jackie Greene, and Sheila Bolduc-Simpson were facilitators of a one-week literacy workshop in LaBelle specifically designed for Hendry and Glades County teachers during the summer, 2010. Twenty teachers attended the workshop. It is hoped that our participation in Hendry/Glades this past summer will foster more literacy activity from that region so that we can continue to extend our good works in that direction.

• National Writing Project @ Florida Gulf Coast University on Facebook is now a reality although the going is slow so please be patient as we continue testing the various functions of this very widely used social networking site. Post and let us know your thoughts!! 

• The March 27 NWP @ FGCU Conference titled, Rant, Reflect & Release Poetry! Using Poetry to Enhance Curriculum, was a big success. Please plan on attending the upcoming ones starting in the fall, 2010. 

• Click here to read Dr. Christensen's Feb. 12, 2010 NWP @ FGCU info update letter. 

• We are interested in adding email-address information to the list of Teacher/Consultants who attended past NWP @ FGCU Summer Institutes.  Click here to access a list of former TC's. Email Mark at msimpson@fgcu.edu with your long-term/permanent email address and it will be added to the list. 

• NWP @ FGCU was well represented at the Nov., 2009 Sanibel Writers' Conference. Take a look below at those who presented.

• The annual NWP Meeting took place in Philidelphia this past November. This event has more participants each year. Most sessions were crowded as you will note below. The 2010 NWP Meeting will be held in Orlando and there will be a large NWP @ FGCU contingent attending!