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by Debbie Chance, Shirley Moran, Kim Patrick, Jenny Bernardi, Lisa Loudenslager

Next Summer Institute is postponed until July 2009

After reviewing our budget proposal this month the National Writing Project (NWP) has requested that the Eastern Shore Writing Project (ESWP) have a year of reorganization. This process will give the ESWP a chance to access the work we have done in the past and plan for the future.

During a reorganization year the NWP strongly recommends that the Summer Institute not be conducted. So, the ESWP will not be holding the Summer Institute during the summer of 2008. Please pass the word to your friends and colleagues that you may have been telling about the Summer Institute.

The ESWP is still planning to hold the Young Writers Workshop (YWW). It will be held July 14 through July 25, 2008, 9:00 AM till noon Monday through Friday at Most Blessed Sacrament School in Berlin, MD. Questions? Drop a line to Liz Walker at YWWsummer08@gmail.com .

The Young Writers Workshop had fun this summer at Salisbury University.

The young writers made sundaes and wrote ads for them. Oh, and they got to eat them, too!

Writing in the computer lab.

In partnership with Salisbury University the ESWP is offering Professional Development for teachers in all grades. Please check out our offerings, which are "teacher tested" and affordable.

NWP ON LIST OF "WORLDWIDE ADVENTURES" FOR TEACHERS -- The writing project summer institute is one of nine worldwide adventures for teachers named by Scholastic's online magazine, Administrator. "When educators take advantage of these once-in-a-lifetime adventures, everyone wins," says the February issue. You may be able to use this publicity with administrators and teachers in your area.

The Eastern Shore Writing Project is an approved affiliate of the National Writing Project, a network of over 165 sites across the country and around the world that seeks to improve the teaching of writing at all levels of education, pre-kindergarten through university. The NWP has been recognized by the American Association for Higher Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as "an outstanding and nationally significant example of how schools and colleges can collaborate to improve American education."