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NWP Radio — Writing in the Summer Institute: Foundational Practice and Emergent Opportunities
Date: April 8, 2010
Summary: Writing and reflecting on writing are at the core of the summer institute model. But what does that mean in practice? In this episode of NWP Radio, site leaders talk about how they are thinking about writing in their institutes, including with online tools such as the E-Anthology.
Excerpt from Show
What happens in the writing groups is that people are asked to contend with one another in the space of writing. So there are steps in the transformation, taking the plunge and deciding that you are going to be willing to write and share in the group, giving yourself permission to take risks, letting go of the embarrassment we have of our writing not being good enough or of us not being smart enough, and then elementary and secondary and college teachers being willing to share with one another and getting over some of the divides between them.
Once that trust is formed through risk taking in writing groups, people find they can try on new roles and new stances and get reactions from other people in the group.
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Related Resources Discussed on the Show
- Teacher Transformation in the National Writing Project
- The E-Anthology Helps Create a Space for Access, Relevance, and Diversity
- E-Anthology Feedback Inspires Classroom Practice
- The E-Anthology as a Resource in the Summer Institute
- Praising, Questioning, Wishing: An Approach to Responding to Writing
- Writing Equals Advocacy for West Texas Writing Project
- Writer, Teacher, Person: Tensions between Personal and Professional Writing in a National Writing Project Summer Institute (PDF)
- Collections of Short Essays, Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones, eds.
- Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers, Paul Negri
- Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, Judith Kitchen
- Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories, Robert Shapard, James Thomas, eds.
- New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, Robert Shapard, James Thomas, eds.
- Billy Collins' Poetry 180 and 180 More
- Garrison Keillor's Good Poems and Good Poems for Hard Times
- Community of Writers, Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff
- Conversations About Writing: Eavesdropping, Inkshedding, and Joining In, Cornelia Paraskevas and Betsy Sargent
- Writing-Based Teaching
