Contrary to what’s written in the events calendar, there will be no board meeting this Friday, July 11.    The next board meeting will be in September.  Check the NVWP events calendar for details.

NVWP Teacher Consultant Michelle Ohanian has been named Fairfax County Public Schools 2008 Teacher of the Year and recipient of the Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award for Educational Excellence.  You may know Michelle as one of the coordinators of our ELL program and as well as chair of the National Writing Project’s English Language Learners Network.

The Fairfax County Press Release

Congratulations, Michelle!!!

Applications for the 2008 Student Summer Institute are now available online.

The Student Summer Institute is a two-week enrichment program for students who enjoy and have a serious interest in it. This year’s Institute runs from Monday, July 7 through Friday, July 18. Click here for detailed information, and click here to download a printable application.

We look forward to seeing you in July!

Full descriptions of the presentations which will be given at the 2008 Bernadette Mulholland Glaze Language & Learning conference are now available.  Click here to be taken to the complete list.

Missing Friends from the Summer Institute? We’d love to see you. Please come to exchange ideas.

Here’s the plan for the morning:

We will get together to share assignments. Instead of making stacks of photocopies of your great lessons inspired by our time together this summer, email a lesson plan and any accompanying handouts to Erinn Harris (erinn.harris[at]fcps[dot]edu). She will burn CD’s of everyone’s work and hand them out on the 16th. Save paper, save trees!

This will be social and professional–we could all take 3-5 minutes to describe our assignments. Some of these assignments might actually be “how I integrated one of last summer’s presentations into my course this year.”

Additionally, you are encouraged to bring a non-TC friend, or, shall we say a “prospective TC.”

Saturday, February 16th at George Mason at 10:00am, in Robinson A447. Park in the Mason Pond Parking Deck and we’ll validate your parking.

RSVP to leo13103[at]yahoo[dot]com