The document provides information about the CSWP Advanced Summer Writing Institute to be held in July 2013, including dates, facilitators, participants, costs, credits, and application details. The institute will focus on sharing teaching practices and strategies, examining writing standards, collaborating on technology tools for writing, and publishing work created using new tools. Participants must submit an application and $25 fee by March 25 or April 29, 2013 to apply for one of the first 16 scholarship spots available.

1. CSWP ADVANCED SUMMER WRITING INSTITUTE
“TEACHING 21ST CENTURY WRITERS”
INFORMATION & APPLICATION
• Facilitators: Lesley Roessing, CSWP Director, and Donna Loyd, Associate Director
• Invited Participants: CSWP and NWP Summer Institute Fellows
• Cost: $1126 plus 2 books, fully covered by grant scholarships for first 16 applicants
• 3 graduate credit hours from AASU College of Education: FOUN 7100 Special Topics
• Date Option I: July 8-12, 9:00-4:00 and July 15 9:00-2:00
• Date Option 2: July 8-12, 9:00-3:00 and July 15, 9:00-3:00 and July16, 9:00-2:00
• 1/2 hour Lunch Break (Vouchers will be provided for Lunch-Discussion Days)
• Application Priority Deadline: March 25. 2013
• Final Application Deadline: April 29, 2013
• Application Fee: $25 payable to CSWP-AASU (Fee will be applied towards 2013-14
Literacy Conference registration for those who attend Advanced Institute); remit with
application
In the Advanced Institute, participants will
• share classroom practices and strategies
• study and collaborate on additional classroom strategies,
• examine Common Core State Standards in writing
• collaborate on infusing technology for writing and publishing
• each participant will share one tech tool used or learned
• learn about additional strategies for using 21st century technology*
• write, write, write, and publish one writing using one of the tech tools learned
*Guest presenter Sara Kajder, author of Bringing the Outside In; Adolescents and Digital
Literacies; Learning Alongside Our Students; The Tech Savvy Classroom; and Guiding Learning
with Technology, will work with the Advance Institute participants on tech tools for one entire
day of the Institute.

2. 2013 ADVANCED SUMMER INSTITUTE APPLICATION
COASTAL SAVANNAH WRITING PROJECT
@Armstrong Atlantic State University
Priority Admission Deadline: March 25, 2013; Final Application Deadline: April 29, 2013
Applications may be submitted at any time, and Institute may fill prior to the deadline.
Personal Information [Please Print]
Name _______________________________ Email ___________________________________
Home Address ______________________________________________ Phone _____________
Street City State Zip
School _______________________________________ District _________________________
Subject(s) Taught __________________________________ Grade Level(s) _______________
Writing Project Site ___________________________________ Summer Institute Year _______
If previously enrolled in AASU graduate class (degree or non-degree), term of latest class _______
Please include a paragraph about your Writing Project Summer Institute experience and the ways
in which the experience has changed or enhanced your writing and teaching writing and writers.
Check which date options you prefer or need. Only check one space.
___ I prefer Option 1 Dates
___ I can only attend Institute if Option 1 is adopted
___ I prefer Option 2 Dates
Mail application with deposit to:
Lesley Roessing, Director
Coastal Savannah Writing Project
College of Education; University Hall 250
Armstrong Atlantic State University
11935 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Georgia 31419-1997
You may fax your application when it has been mailed to hold a seat for a week until mailed application arrives.
Fax: 912.344.3436