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Apply now for 2010 NeWP Summer Institutes
Applications are now being accepted for the Lincoln Summer Institute, Technology Summer Institute and the Humanitites Summer Institute. Applicants applying by November 13th will be notified of admission by December 18th, 2009.
Apply for the Inaugural NeWP Professional Writing Retreat
NeWP will be hosting its first Professional Writing Retreat June 28- 30 at the St. Benedict Center in Schuyler, Nebraska. The ten teacher-writers selected will enjoy free room and board as well as three days of precious, community-supported writing time. Applications are due March 31, 2010. Click here for the full retreat flier and application.
The Bees and the Wasps
A story of the Platte River Writing Retreat. Read the whole story, view the photo gallery.
Spotlight Writer: Linda Hayek
Retired Mathematics teacher Linda Hayek shares writing from her classroom years and beyond. (read more)
NeWP Writing Groups Begin Again Around Nebraska
Join Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney and Fremont-Wahoo-North Bend area groups or start one in your area.
NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing
Winners of the 2009 Awards program were notified in October. The 2010 Awards Brochure and entry form are available on-line.
Preservice-Rural-Urban Writing Exchange
On-line writing forum unites students across the state. (read more)
NeWP Celebrates 30 Years
The Nebraska Writing Project hosted its annual Spring Gathering in the Student Union of on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. This year, NeWP had something special to celebrate. (read more)
Spring Writing Marathon
The Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island was the venue for the NeWP Spring Writing Marathon. (see photo right, read more)
Ralston teacher leads NeWP to Urban Sites Grant
Dan Boster's commitment to social justice in the metro Omaha area has drawn the attention of the NWP USN. (read more)
2009 Poetry of Place
Student Poets from across Nebraska read their winning poetry at the State Capitol Building May 1. (Read story and read winning poetry)
Podcasts Contribute to "Whole New Kind of Teaching and Learning" at the Nebraska Writing Project
NeWP teachers' work with podcasting and student poetry featured on the National Writing Project website. (read more)
Reading, Writing, Teaching the Holocaust:Cultivating the Humanitarian Hope Amidst Tales of Catastrophe
Danielle Friesen-Bethune was selected as one of 20 Rural Sites Network teachers to participate in the Memorial Library Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education in New York City: "Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Holocaust." (read more)
Journaling Through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
York College Education students journal in Washington D.C. with help of Nebraska Writing Project mini-grant. (read more)
Papillion-La Vista Teachers Grow as Writers and Teachers of Writing
The 2008-09 PLV-NeWP Institute includes 18 teachers who meet from October through April to free-write, present EQUIPs, learn about technology tools ... (read more)
Rural Sites Network On-line Course Opportunity
PLACE-CONSCIOUS EDUCATION Fall 2009 advanced institute, open to Teacher Consultants throughout the RSN, offered through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (see details)
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Mark Your Calendars
February 10th, 2010: NCTE Promising Young Writers all materials due
February 17th, 2010: NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing Submissions due
March 8th, 2010: Deadline for open applications to Summer Institutes
March 31st, 2010: Professional Writing Retreat Applications due
June 28-30th: Professional Writing Retreat, Schuyler, NE
Campfire at Platte River
(photo courtesy of Kate Brooke)
