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School-Year Programs

The NWIWP offers many different types of programs to help teachers improve their methods for teaching writing and to help districts and schools successfully introduce new programs and forms of assessment.  They include:

Half-Day Programs
Full Day Programs
Semester or Year-Long Programs

Half-Day Programs
The NWIWP will come out to your school and provide professional development to your entire staff.  Topics and length vary depending on your needs. Here are two sample programs:

Introductory Program
4 half-day sessions/12 hours

1. Introduction to Teaching Writing:
The Writing Process.
2. The Reading/Writing Connection I.
3. The Writing Workshop
4. I-STEP Rubics

Advanced Program
4 half-day sessions/12 hours

1. The Reading/Writing Connection II
2. Writer’s Workshop II.
3. Writing Across the Curriculum
4. Preparing Students for I-STEP

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Full-Day Programs
Any of the half-day programs can be expanded into full-day programs.

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Semester or Year-Long Programs
The NWIWP is also available to provide ongoing professional development training at you school in the evenings.  We have recently provided programs for graduate credit for the Boone Grove School Corporation in Porter County, Webster Elementary in Gary, and the Whiting Schools

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Author Sy Montgomery speaks with a student after her discussion of writing.



"Easy reading is damned hard writing."
Nathaniel Hawthorne







 
 
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