Hawaii Writing Project

Invitational Summer Institute is coming soon!

• June 18 - July 13, 2012
• Mondays through Thursdays

More information to come but start telling your teacher friends and return to our website often in the coming weeks for instructions and guidelines. Read about experiences from the HWP 2010 Summer Institutes.

Continuity/Open Institutes – HWP offers continued professional development to HWP alums, as well as teachers new to HWP, through two-week summer Continuity/Open Institutes. Teachers read professional literature on institute topics, participate in reading groups, observe strategy lessons, and develop and present their own lessons.

• Using Writing & Technology in Place-based Inquiry – Teachers study place-based inquiry processes, and develop their own place-based research project. They incorporate several different writing formats and technology to present a digital story on their inquiry topic. Offered Summer 2011.
• Academic Vocabulary - Teachers examine the relationship between reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary development across subject areas. Offered Summer 2012.
• Reading-Writing Connections through Genre Study - Teachers read and examine authors' craft in a variety of genres, and then they work on their own writing pieces that incorporate specific elements of writing craft. Offered Summer 2012.
  
• Writing across the Curriculum - College-level educators examine how writing can be effectively integrated into a wide range of subject areas courses that are designated as writing intensive. Offered Summer 2011.
  

Continuity Programs – HWP alums are invited to participate in a wide range of continued professional development through HWP and partnership programs offered throughout the year:

• Online Book Clubs

• Professional Development Workshops

• Celebrate Reading Festival

• Children’s Literature Hawai`i Festival

• Literacy Conferences

• HWP Leadership Teams

Site-based In-Service – HWP provides site-based literacy professional development customized to meet the literacy needs of public, charter, and private schools in Hawai`i. Because we are a local organization, we provide ongoing support and literacy professional development that meets the needs of students in Hawai`i. Offered throughout the year.

Hawai‘i Writing Project is pleased to announce that Star Poets is one of our partners! Star Poets Coordinator Susan St. John submitted the following photos from the 2011 Star Poets Celebration.

The Hawai`i Writing Project is celebrating 30 years of providing literacy-related teacher professional development to K-16 educators across the Hawaiian Islands. The HWP mission is “to improve and integrate the teaching of writing and reading in Hawai`i's schools.” Committed to serving the broadest range of teachers and students in Hawai`i, HWP is particularly interested in:

• Helping teachers to understand the power of writing as a way of learning in all subject areas, connecting reading, writing, and thinking;

• Honoring Hawai`i's diverse peoples, rich cultural heritage, language, and unique island environment; and

• Working in partnership with others for the betterment of education and community in Hawai`i.

The Hawai`i Writing Project is the Hawai`i state affiliate of the National Writing Project. The NWP began at the University of California at Berkeley in 1974. Today, there are 200 writing project sites across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, as well as sites in Canada and Europe. The NWP is the only federally funded program that focuses on the teaching of writing. Support for the NWP is provided by the U.S. Department of Education, foundations, corporations, universities, and K-12 schools. The NWP and its state affiliates are successful because they support teachers in becoming competent writers themselves and better teachers of writing. Research has shown the effectiveness of the NWP teacher professional development model of “teachers teaching teachers.” For more information about NWP research, visit their website.