Invitational Summer InstituteBAWP’s Annual Invitational Summer Institute is an opportunity to look closely at your own writing and student writing, to ex-plore issues and ideas in the teaching of writing, to work toward becoming teacher leaders, and to share classroom practices or activities. Fellows who complete the annual institute become teacher-consultants (TCs) of the Bay Area and National Writing Projects and a member of a vibrant community of educators.

Each of the nearly 200 Writing Project sites hold an invitational summer institute every summer. Several thousand teachers participate each year in these summer institutes, and every year new groups of summer fellows at local sites describe their summer institute experience as “a space for critical reflection so essential to good practice,” “causing a noticeable and great shift in all of my teaching,” “the best professional development I have had in all my years of teaching.”

The Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP), housed in the Graduate School of Education, is a collaborative program between University of California, Berkeley and Bay Area schools. Since 1974, BAWP has been a vital resource for teachers and schools in the Bay Area, not only in the teaching of writ-ing but also as a model of professional development, teacher leadership and reform. Firmly rooted in the belief that teachers are the best teachers of teachers, BAWP offers workshops for teachers, taught by teachers, throughout the school year and each summer, serving hundreds of teachers and their students each year.

Interested in becoming a 2016 Summer Institute Fellow?

Contact the Bay Area Writing Project at (510) 642-0971 or bawp@berkeley.edu

More information about the program online: www.bayareawritingproject.org

Exact dates to be determinedLate June through July 2016