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!!!

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

Applications are now available for the Northern Virginia Writing Project’s 2008 Summer Institute.

This year’s Institute will be held from June 30 through July 31. Applicants may choose to attend the Institute at either George Mason University’s Fairfax campus, or Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, VA.

Click below to find links to detailed information on each Institute’s location and schedule, and printable applications for each.

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