Urban Sites Network Events
2009 Urban Sites Network Conference
Writing and Resiliency: Tapping the Potential of Urban Students
April 24–25, 2009
Hyatt Regency Louisville & Kentucky International Convention Center
Louisville, Kentucky
Host site: Louisville Writing Project
The Louisville Writing Project at the University of Louisville is proud to serve as your host for the 2009 Urban Sites Network Conference. Join urban educators from across the country to explore how writing can help students develop resiliency and reach their potential as literate learners and leaders in urban classrooms.
Register Now!
The deadline for conference registration is April 10, 2009. Download the registration information and form (PDF). You can also register online 
at the Kentucky Writing Project's website.
Keynote Speaker
Bonnie Benard , senior program associate, WestEd, works to help schools and communities create supportive environments that nurture adolescents' healthy development and life success. Benard has been a senior program associate at WestEd for twenty-five years.
Over the past fifteen years, she has been promoting resiliency through research and has directly affected national policy through her input to the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools and to the No Child Left Behind Act. Her publications include
- Resiliency: What We Have Learned
- Fostering Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in the Family, School, and Community.
- Book vendors
- Visits to local schools and surrounding neighborhoods
- Two writing marathon strands: one aboard the Belle of Louisville steamboat; the other in historic downtown Louisville
- New-Teacher Initiative Pre-conference Session
- Walking tour of the riverfront with Louisville historian Tom Owen
- Evening reception overlooking the city of Louisville and the Ohio River
- Dinner and entertainment
- Open Mic Night, in the rotating spire of the Hyatt against a backdrop of city lights
- Keynote speaker Bonnie Benard, author of Resiliency: What We Have Learned
- Several rounds of interactive and engaging workshop sessions
- Breakfast and lunch buffet
- Book vendors
- Annual Urban Sites Network Town Meeting
Conference Highlights
» Friday (Hyatt Regency Louisville)Downloadable Files
Request for Proposals
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Registration Information and Form
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2009 USN Conference Schedule
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