2011 NWP Annual Meeting Morning Plenary

“Big Ideas” from Morning Strategic
Planning Groups

In the face of austerity and dwindling support
for the teaching profession we collaborate with
new and existing partners, re-envisioning our
goals and mission to support the teachers and
students for whom this project was created and
do so with efficiency and creativity.

How do we sustain existing relationships and
continue to build new ones in service to our
commonly held principles?

ISI is the heart of our program—building
leadership, new knowledge (common
core, digital literacies, attracting new
participants, etc.). What happens when we
change it?

NWP can sustain itself without sacrificing its
core values when sites share ideas with each
other about how to navigate changes in the
educational and economic landscape.

How do we stay true to our core values while
reinventing ourselves?

Q: How do we sustain/develop programs with
integrity in an era of diminishing/no funds. It
takes money to make money.
A: A shift in perspective: Sustaining the ISI
through continuity and community programs as
an investment enterprise.

Together, embrace a growth mindset using
rhetorically sophisticated dialogues with key
constituents to increase visibility in order to
provide profitable, innovative programs
grounded in NWP principles.

How do we create strategies for making our
work more visible and marketable to multiple
audiences?

How do we preserve our NWP identity in work
with teachers and students while diversifying
funding sources?

•How do we keep the core values of NWP alive
and step outside the box to reinvent ourselves
without funding and/or support?

•And how do we sustain it once we figure it out?

•And make visible our success stories?

How do we define, support, and empower TCs
to communicate a writing project stance in an
era of top-down mandates?

How can we collaborate as
savvy, pragmatic, principled, and political
activists on behalf of inquiry-based education
while staying true to our mission?

How do we sustain what’s essential in a
new, dynamic landscape?

•We need to create new ways to strategically
develop programs and partnerships that best
meet the needs of our service area without
compromising NWP principles.

•The need is great but the sources are out there.

•We will focus on what we have rather than
what we’ve lost or don’t have.

What’s New in
FEDERAL FUNDING

U.S. Department of Education
 Title II Teacher Quality Program set-aside (Nov 2011)
 “Supporting Effective Educator Development Grant
Program (SEED)”
 Grants scheduled to be announced in Jan 2012

ESEA Reauthorization and
FY2012 Budget
 ESEA reauthorization is in process.

 Senate version includes a competitive funding stream
for “Programs of National Significance.”

 Senate version includes a proposal for a 5% set-aside
of Title II funds for the next SEED competition.

 House version eliminates 1% set-aside of Title II
funds.

What’s New in
NWP RESEARCH AND EVALUATION

NWP Results: 8 Years of LSRI Studies

Analytic Writing Continuum
Assessment System
 Assigns analytic and holistic scores
 Provides reliable data
 Relies on teacher consultants’ expertise
 Supports ongoing research about NWP’s
impact
 Used by teacher-consultants and sites for
teaching, professional development and
inquiry

Continuing Importance of Research
Increased emphasis on experimental studies in
guiding federal discretionary spending

Source: ESEA Draft Ramps Up
Role of Education Research,
Education Week, October 24, 2011

What’s New in
NWP FUNDRAISING

NWP is committed to working
to support fundraising efforts
across the network.

Why Do People Give?
 In good times and bad, we know that people give
because your work meets their needs, not
because you have needs.

 Donors don’t give to institutions. They invest in
ideas and people in whom they believe.

 It is the job of people who work in foundations to
give away money. It is our job to ask.

Type of Grantmaking Organizations

Isabel Allende
"It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able
to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our
world's complex problems, without knowing how to
read and write. My foundation
supports the National Writing Project
so that teachers can be more effective
in their efforts to improve literacy for
all students.”

Individual Giving is 73% of Total

Giving USA: Total 2010 Contributions

E-CAMPAIGN TO RAISE FUNDS
FOR SITES & NWP

1) Shift toward voluntary
association

2) Shift toward flexible
opportunity structures

3) Shift toward the “linked” local

@neilhimself:
Because I can lie beautiful
true things into existence, &
let people escape from inside
their own heads & see
through other eyes.
#whyIwrite

@chantal_wiebe:
Because honesty is a long lost
art. #whyiwrite

@susanorlean:
#whyIwrite To make sense of
the world, to hear stories, to
tell stories, to feel alive.

@UNcheckedOther:
Because life is an eternal
awakening #whyiwrite

@DanielPink:
Because I never could hit a
curveball . . . #whyIwrite

@Carpe_Omnes:
#whyiwrite Because I have
stories in me that need to be
told.

@Andy_Ricther:
Words be gooder than
numbers! #whyiwrite

@LouMorgan:
Because I never trusted the
primary school teacher who
told me nothing good ever
came of day-dreaming.
#whyiwrite

@BorowitzReport:
Because I had to give up
sexting. #whyIwrite

@didigresses:
#whyIwrite To leave myself &
others a trail of inspiration &
memory. To make up for the
sad day that I can no longer
put a pen to paper.

@DianeRavitch:
@NYTimesLearning I write
because I must. I write
because I think. I write to
make the world a better
place. I write for history.

@limsteph:
“Writing is the only thing
that, when I do it, I don’t feel
I should be doing something
else.” -Gloria Steinem
#WhyIWrite

@DorisMatsui:
#whyiwrite I write to
advocate for and inform my
constituents on issues that
affect their lives. Nat'l Day on
Writing: t.co/ZdfwqjwN

@roscannon:
#whyiwrite to get it out of my
head so there's room for
more.

@jasonpinter:
Because I can make it the
best day of someone's life or
the worst, I can kill them or
have them fall deeply in love.
#whyiwrite

@tora_estep:
#whyiwrite Because no one
responds to my telepathy
anymore.

@gregpincus:
To share. To think. To heal. To
amuse. To escape and give
escape. And because I simply
can't imagine not. That's
#whyiwrite

@JulesGuitar:
Because I (mostly) hate to
talk! #WhyIWrite

@maureenjohnson:
#whyIwrite An abundance of
brain monkeys and a dearth
of other skills.

@DLMorrese:
#whyiwrite Because I want to
make more of the kinds of
books I like to read available
to others.

@gaylebrandeis:
#whyIwrite To slip into other
skins (and fully inhabit my
own.)

@SamMiller48:
I write because I know my
words have power and can
change things from the
smallest rock to the biggest
mountain. #whyiwrite

@LaurelSnyder:
Because I still want to believe
in the magic world, and
writing helps me live there.
#whyiwrite

@emoryshatzer:
Every time I think I'm just
about to run out of words a
pink unicorn shows up with a
bucket full of more.
#whyIwrite

@barrylyga:
Because as hard as it is, it
feels worse not to.
#whyiwrite #fb

@Killpink13:
to escape everything that has
hurt me, and embrace every
good moment. I write to give
myself hope for a better day
#whyiwrite

@agreer:
My head is haunted, and I
write to recreate the thing in
my head, in hopes it will
leave me and be beautiful
#whyiwrite

@kimperk:
#whyiwrite : niet om
beroemd te worden maar om
een verhaal te kunnen
vertellen, je mee te sleuren in
de wereld die ik heb
gemaakt!

@Annemazer:
to say all the things no one
wanted to hear; because i
love what words do when you
put them next to each other;
for sheer joy... #whyiwrite

@theavni:
Because words are more
forever than diamonds.
#whyiwrite

@MsTerryMcMillan:
Writing is one way I am able
to empathize with others
whom I most likely don't feel
much empathy for.
#whyIwrite

@theginfairy:
#whyiwrite An excuse to
drink lots, have questionable
morals and stay up past my
bedtime.

@jenniferweiner:
Because I love it. Because I
don't have a choice. Because
it makes my readers happy.
And because it pisses off the
literati. #whyiwrite

@samplereality:
Because my megaphone was
confiscated in high school.
#whyiwrite

@danagoodyear:
Nosiness. #whyiwrite

@youvebeenlanged:
In the beginning was the
Word, which seems like a
good way to keep creation
going. #whyiwrite

@fernandaNYT:
Today is National Day on
Writing. #whyIwrite: I write
so people can see, hear & feel
what I saw, heard & felt
w/out ever being there.

@karenfrommentor:
I like to make people snort
milk out of their nose
#whyIwrite [but bologna is
even better]

@MartySmithESPN:
The reason #whyIwrite is to
maintain sanity. It is
liberating. It is clarity. It is a
gift and a blessing. And I have
no other talents.

@tgregcarpenter:
May I have your
attention, please? Listen to
this. Pay attention now.
Seriously, pay attention to
me. Are you listening?
#whyiwrite

Email your writings to us!
writings@nwp.org

Join us here in the Grand Ballroom
for the evening plenary and social.
5:30-7:00 PM

2011 NWP Annual Meeting Morning Plenary

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