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NYCWP In Action
Photo Credits: G.Raffaele; M.Brownstone; G.Raffaele
Welcome!The New York City Writing Project's goal is is to improve the teaching and learning of language and literacy in New York City public schools by increasing teachers' abilities to use writing as a tool for learning, thinking, and communicating. Through collaborations with teachers and schools, the NYCWP seeks to transform the ways in which writing and reading are perceived, taught, and evaluated in urban classrooms. We're tweaking and fine-tuning this site, so you may see changes big and small on the site over the course of the next few weeks. If you were previously registered for the site, your registration information remains the same.
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Written by Joseph Bellacero
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 Pictures by Joe Bellacero Our third and final Writing Marathon for the 2007-2008 school year was everything we could hope it would be. Disregarding threats of hail, and rousing ourselves from comfortable beds to catch an early morning ferry from Battery Park to Ellis Island, fourteen of us found the venue, the company and the writing to be special and memorable. Most especially appreciated were the friends who accompanied Writing Project folk. Lorraine McFarlane, from the New School of Arts and Sciences, brought nine year old Kayla who wrote wonderful pieces about all she saw. Cecilia Espinoza from Lehman College brought her friend Sara all the way from Arizona to join us for the second time. Noah Coston from Wagner H.S. brought his writer friend, Grace, and Annie Thoms from Stuyvesant brought her colleague, Holly. It was also great to have Linette Moorman, former director of the NYCWP, take some time out from her globe-trotting work for the National Writing Project, to join us. Other participants were Dara Winkler, Chris Bellacero, Lona Vilmar-Jack and Ed Osterman. Ed noted that the setting "…had quite an impact on our writing. Unlike the huge range of topics I have heard at other marathons, our writing was strongly focused and affected by what we saw, the issues it raised for us and the emotional connections many of us felt." The entire experience was summed up succinctly by Dara Winkler of Wagner Secondary School, "It was wonderful." |
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Written by Administrator
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The New York City Writing Project would like to invite you to apply to join us this summer for 12
stimulating days in a New York City Writing Project Advanced Summer Institute -
Youth Space: Using Web2.0 tools to build social networks for learning.
We will be meeting at Lehman College in the Bronx from June 30 - July 17,
Mondays - Thursdays, 9 - 2.
Please let us know right away if you are interested. We have a limited
number of seats available (20) and an even more limited number of $500
stipends (10). Participants can also earn three graduate credits in English.
We would love for you to join us.
Send an email to
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to let us know that you are interested. In turn,
Paul will send you a link to an online application that you need to get back
to us by June 6th.
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