Deadline Extended Until All Spaces Are Filled

Free Tuition for 6 Graduate Credits

The Hawai‘i Writing Project

announces . . .

2008 Summer Writing Institute

FOR: TEACHERS OF ALL DISCIPLINES, K-COLLEGE. Preference given to teachers with 3

or more years of experience.

WITH: Dr. Rhonda Nowak, incoming HWP Director and Assistant Professor College of Education,

and Sharan Moncur, Kalaheo High

WHERE: Kapi`olani Community College

WHEN: June 9 to June 27, 2008

TIMES: Mondays through Fridays, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Orientation Saturday May 17, 8:30-12:00

Two or Three Saturday follow-up sessions to be scheduled during the 2008-2009 school year

CREDITS: 6 credits of EDCS 697. These credits will count towards advancement on the DOE

salary schedule.

COST: *$107 administrative fee payable to the University of Hawaii. Payment should be made at the time of UH registration. No tuition cost. Fee does not include cost of books.

**$50 voluntary contribution to HWP requested after registration with HWP. Checks made payable to the University of Hawai`i Foundation; on the memo line write “Hawai`i Writing Project.”

We invite you to the Hawai‘i Writing Project’s twenty-ninth Summer Writing Institute, a highly successful course designed for teachers interested in developing their own writing abilities and in using writing in their classrooms. Participants write, respond to one another’s writing, and examine principles and strategies of effective writing and informed writing instruction. The follow-up sessions are designed to help teachers reflect on their teaching practices as they begin to implement new strategies in the classroom and to share the results with their HWP colleagues.

Since the establishment of the Hawai‘i Writing Project, some five hundred teachers from Hawai‘i’s public and private schools, kindergarten through college, have become fellows of the annual writing institute. While more than half of those have been teachers of English/language arts, others have been specialists in art, chemistry, dance, drama, French, Hawaiian studies, history, mathematics, music, and special education.

TO APPLY: Complete the form included with this announcement and send it to the Hawai`i Writing Project. The application form must be accompanied by: (1) a statement from the registrant (2) a statement from a colleague and (3) a statement from applicant’s department head or principal.

Application for Hawai`i Writing Project’s

2008 Summer Writing Institute

June 9-27

Deadline: Applications Accepted Until All Spaces Are Filled

Please type or print clearly.

Name:________________________________

Social Security Number:____________________

Mailing address:__________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip Code:_________________________________

Home Phone:________________

School:_________________________________________________________________

School Address:__________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip Code:_________________________________

School Phone:_______________

Email:_____________________________________________

Teaching Position (grades, subject, etc.):_______________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Years of Experience:____________

Degree(s) and Institution(s):_________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Years Awarded:_____________________

STATEMENT FROM THE APPLICANT: Include a statement with your application in which you describe yourself as a teacher. How do you use writing in your classroom? What questions and concerns do you have about yourself as a writer and as a teacher who assigns writing? What are your goals as a participant in the Summer Writing Institute?

STATEMENT FROM A COLLEAGUE: Please write a couple of paragraphs about the applicant telling us why this person is a strong teacher and would be a contributing participant in the Summer Institute.

STATEMENT FROM THE APPLICANT’S ADMINISTRATOR: What contribution does the applicant make to the school? How effective is he or she as a teacher? How effective is he or she in organizing materials and presenting them to peers? Use anecdotal material if helpful.

Hawai`i Writing Project

Kapi`olani Community College, Arts and Sciences

4303 Diamond Head Road, Honolulu, HI 96816

Phone (808) 734-9432 Facsimile (808) 734-9207

Email: shel@hawaii.edu Website: www.hawaii/hwp

This application form may be photocopied for distribution to interested teachers. It is also available at the HWP website: www.hawaii.edu/hwp