Survey, Prompts, Slam, Vt. Writes Day, Tips
1. IMPORTANT REQUEST: All of you using these sites are probably interested to know how it helps student engagement and performance. YOU CAN HELP confirm what we've found in previous studies AND provide us new information to help you help students.
As we've discussed when the year began, we have a quick survey and a quick-write prompt that we'd like your kids to do. Please get them to do it because the more responses we get, the more accurate the information we can give you.
In the next few weeks, please have your students go go YOURSITE.ywpschools.net/wintersurvey AND YOURSITE.ywpschools.net/winterprompt and have the students participate... The survey takes about 5-7 minutes and give the students 15 minutes on the writing prompt. Make sure they save their work!
Announcements -- Direct record, Set up YWP visits, VT Writes Day...
Submitted by ggevalt on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 20:48Quick updates from YWP:
Sign Up for In-School Mentoring. YWP Teacher Coaches – Geoff Gevalt, Darcie Abbene, Cindy Faughnan, Nick Brooks and Kathy Folley – are scheduling January appointments to come into your schools to work with classrooms, individual teachers or small groups. Our aim is to help you get more out of your digital classrooms, to offer ideas and to help with anything you’re confused about. Contact them as soon as you can to set up a convenient time! Do it before the holidays if you can! Contact info:
ggevalt@youngwritersproject.org, dabbene@youngwritersproject.org, cfaughnan@youngwritersproject.org, nbrooks@youngwritersproject.org or kfolley@youngwritersproject.org
Questions? Call Geoff Gevalt at 324-9537 respectively.
Send YWP your best work! Get famous!
Submitted by ggevalt on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 10:07Young Writers Project has begun its 2011/2012 newspaper series and is looking for MORE great writing from your students! We will be publishing in 12 newspapers this year:
St. Albans Messenger (Wed), Colchester Sun (Thur), Essex Reporter (Thur), Burlington Free Press (SAT-Hometown), Rural Route Today, Addison Independent (Thur), Rutland Herald, Stowe Reporter, Waterbury Record, Times Argus, The Valley News (Mon) and Brattleboro Reformer (Sat). Also, we publish a new piece on vpr.net every Monday.
Our deadlines each week are Friday, at the end of the day. More information about submitting can be found here: http://youngwritersproject.org/submit ... The year's prompts can be found here: http://youngwritersproject.org/prompts11.12 (full-sized photos for photo prompts and a pdf of all prompts can be downloaded here as well)
Upcoming deadlines:
The YWP Schools Project -- Information
Submitted by ggevalt on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 15:46
YWP Schools Project is a comprehensive, cross-curriculum digital writing and teacher mentoring program created by Young Writers Project, a Vermont nonprofit dedicated to helping students improve their writing. YWP partners with teachers and schools in Vermont, parts of New Hampshire and several pilots across the globe. TO SAMPLE HOW THE CLASSROOMS LOOK AND WORK, login as demo with password of demo.
"I cannot put in words just how amazing it is to see students, regardless of their ability or disability, communicating under the common goal of working together to grow as writers." -- 5/6 grade home room teacher
"The site has helped me get to know my students better; that allows me to be more effective as a teacher." -- 7/8 science teacher
We have reached capacity for Vermont sites this year; if you are interested in working with us next year and would like a demonstration OR you are from another country and wish to connect your students with Vermont students through this platform, please call Geoffrey Gevalt at 802-324-9537 THANKS!
