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Piasa Bluffs Writing Project: A Teachers Teaching Teachers Phenomenon

PBWP is now accepting Applications for the 2010 Invitational Summer Institute! Applications are due by March 15, 2010. Don't delay!

Institute Dates: July 5 - 30, 2010

Click here to download your application today! Please email completed application to rcordov@siue.edu, or fax to 618-650-3485 When was the last time you had a chance to sit and learn with Early Childhood to University level colleagues from all content areas, focused on writing and literacy ideas decided by you?

If this gets your attention, you may need PBWP like it may need you! The Invitational Summer Institute (ISI) is the heart of our writing project. It is carefully planned by its co-directors who comprise the site director and co-director as well as Returning Fellows who have participated in our previous ISI's. Together they plan a rich set of experiences that support participants to deepen their understanding of literacy learning and writing instruction, develop an inquiring stance to their practices as well as become teacher-leaders and professional development consultants.

During our Invitational Summer Institutes, exemplary Early Childhood to University level teachers who are locally nominated convene to study, in a graduate-level setting, the latest theoretical and pedagogical approaches in the teaching of writing and literacies learning. As an overlay to the rich program, we weave into it, readings on cultural, social justice and digital literacies.

"Big Idea" pieces of writing that you will develop:

1. A physical demonstration of your practice that you teach all of us.
2. A reflective analysis of that demonstration.
3. Selecting a piece of writing you develop in the Institute that you submit for publication to our Anthology.

Because we are a teachers teaching teachers community, each teacher participant will demonstrate a particular approach to the teaching writing, reading and literacy development to the group. From this, the participants further refine their teaching approaches, often times grounding them more deeply in larger theoretical approaches, as well as learn from each other.

When our participants complete the 4 week Invitational Summer Institute, they emerge as NWP/PBWP Fellows and Teacher Leader-Consultants. Our Teacher Leader-Consultants are supported by ongoing Continuity Programs to extend and deepen their ongoing professional growth. They can also become Teacher Consultants who work with the PBWP to offer quality professional development experiences/workshops to the teachers and school districts in our service area.

After successful completion of the Invitational Summer Institute, Fellows receive an $800 stipend and 6 hours of graduate credit. Institute days are: July 5 - July 30, 2010. We'll meet at 8AM till 3:30PM the during the following weekdays:

Week 1, M-R
Week 2, M-F
Week 3, M-R
Week 4, M-F

Ralph A. Córdova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Piasa Bluffs Writing Project
618-650-3427

Click here to download your application today!
email completed application to rcordov@siue.edu, or fax to 618-650-3485

Blog Posts

PLC and Error

PLCing and Error
PLCing about errors

I’ve finally had the time to look at the video of our last PLC, and thanks to a few inches of snow, I have some time to think about our conversation that day. As a reminder or for those who weren’t there, we looked at a piece of writing collaboratively using a protocol I learned from Ralph Cordova and our work with the writing project. Simply, the process involves describing the work, speculating, theorizing, and finally reflecting…so what does all this mean… Continue

Posted by Jeff Hudson on January 7, 2010 at 7:57am

Local Knowledge

I try to organize my CP4 class thematically so that at any given point in the semester, our work swirls around a certain set of assumptions and questions. I usually start the semester with “education” as our theme. We read those education themed essays in the anthology or current scholarship we find using the LCCC database to raise potential research questions students might take up if a spark is lit. Do high stakes tests, for example, result in more or better learning/teaching in the classroom?… Continue

Posted by Jeff Hudson on December 8, 2009 at 5:39am

Support the Troops (A-schoolers, I mean)

This post makes a little more sense when read in the context of Mike Rose's latest blog post. You can read Rose at www.mikerosebooks.blogspot.com
What follows is my response to Rose and to recent developments at AHS:

Mike Rose's latest blog post, appropriately enough for Veterans Day, focuses on work Rose and colleagues did with veterans of Vietnam. As I read, I thought of discussions my CP4 students have had around the issues of war and patr… Continue

Posted by Jeff Hudson on November 11, 2009 at 9:26am

How to create a classroom blog!

After my last post on embedding a Google calendar, Deanna said, "Wait! I don't have a classroom blog yet! How do I do that?" So... here it is. How to create a blog for your classroom!

I recommend using Blogspot; it's easy to use, and it's what I used to create my class website.

Visit this Blogspot tutorial for outstanding (and very easy to follow) instructions on what… Continue

Posted by Jason Sellers on October 29, 2009 at 7:30pm

Renewal Reflection

I'm learning that the value in any experience (a renewal, for example) or technology (a ning, for example) is not so much that it offers me a voice but more in its ability to keep "worlds bumping into each other." I know now, how I misused the e-anthology this summer, for instance. I posted things, "look at me." But I rarely read other's stuff, and my responses to feedback on my writing were shallow, obligatory. I carefully, like George Costanza for any Seinfeld fans, prohibitted worlds from col… Continue

Posted by Jeff Hudson on October 26, 2009 at 6:00pm

Forum

Another farewell

Started by Don Hudson in The Collaboratory Oct. 29, 2009.

Checking In, Mid-Fall 2009, Collaborator Projects 6 Replies

Started by Ralph Cordova in The Collaboratory. Last reply by Mike Murawski Oct. 26, 2009.

Meta Tic Work 4 Replies

Started by Jacqueline Green in PBWP Fellows' Forums. Last reply by Jeff Hudson Sep. 29, 2009.

Notes

Insights from PBWP Fall 2009 Renwal:

PBWP had its second Fall Renewal...attending were nearly all of our 2009 Fellows, and 4 of our 2008 Fellows. Running through our day was a clear thread of process and inquiry as a process. We first explored where were are today, what we're trying in our classrooms, and other celebrations and challenges. We then read together an article published about our very own PBWP and the role inquiry stances play to both thicken and sustain

… Continue

Created by Ralph Cordova Oct 26, 2009 at 7:03pm. Last updated by Ralph Cordova Oct. 27, 2009.

Notes Home

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Created by Ralph Cordova Oct 25, 2009 at 5:57pm. Last updated by Jason Sellers Oct. 25, 2009.

PBWP-Collaboratory & d.School Collaboration

(Edwardsville, IL) Members of the PBWP Leadership Team (Susan Breck, Jeff Brierly, Ralph Córdova, Jackie Green, Renee Greenlee, Patti Swank & Ann Taylor) were invited to visit the renown d.School at Stanfored University http://www.stanford.edu/group/dschool/. The trip was part of PBWP's ever-vigilant stance to learn, connect, innovate, and share. Dr. Maureen Carroll, the d.School's K-12 Initiative Director and her leadership received us wi… Continue

Created by Ralph Cordova Oct 25, 2009 at 6:14pm. Last updated by Ralph Cordova Oct. 25, 2009.