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Thanks to our BSWP CCSS implementation team for all their hard work on working with the Idaho State Department of Education. Check out these implementation modules that "provide a coherent, detailed regimen of activities for use in districts that includes resources, goals, objectives, strategies, and detailed notes for trainers."

You Go!

http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/common/ELAcore/proDev.htm


Help spread the word about the Literacy Lifeboats initiative. As you can see the website is up and running and Teachers College has helped us set up this financial gift-giving structure so that donations are tax-exempt and handled with the highest professional standards. We encourage you to spread the word quickly.

 

http://readingandwritingproject.com/literacy-lifeboats

Boise State Writing Project Continues our  K-12 Service-Learning Initiatives in Public Schools: 
Boise State’s thriving Service-Learning Program integrates academics and service for college students. Now, through work with the Boise State Writing Project, 85 Idaho teachers will carry the proven benefits of combining service with learning into their K-12 classrooms this fall. Read more about it in the article!

The Boise State Writing Project offers professional development workshops for administrators and teachers addressing the implementation of The Common Core Standards. The workshops can be modified and geared toward specific district needs surrounding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Contact Paula Uriarte for more information
Would you like to learn more about BSWP? Download our flier, read, and then share!

 Upcoming Events
2013 Institutes:

Literacy in the Disciplines (Including English Language Arts): Meeting the Common Core State Standards for the Reading and Writing of Argument

The workshop will take place between August and December of

2013. Participation will include weekly online compulsory

discussions and electronic submission of study guides or other

responses to reading. There will also be optional face-to-face meetings

with small groups to discuss reading and lesson/unit plans in progress.

Learn more HERE

Inquiry Institute:  Unit Planning for Meeting and Exceeding the CCSS


  • Pre-Institute: Saturday May 18, 2013 at Boise State University SUB (tentative)
  • The Institute: Monday June 24, 2013 – Friday June 28, 2013 at Boise State University
  • For more information, View OUR FLYER

Grammar and the Teaching of Writing: Theory and Practice

When:   6 Saturdays during the Spring Semester:  January 26, February 2, 16, March 2, 16, April 27

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

View our Flyer


Meeting the CCSS through Mathematical Inquiry

  • Pre-Institute: Saturday May 18, 2013 at Boise State University SUB (tentative)
  • The Institute: Monday June 10, 2013 – Friday June 14, 2013 at Boise State University
  • Follow Up: There will then be one follow up session in the fall, to be arranged by the summer institute participants.
  • For more info, view our flyer

Buzzwhoopers! Do you have someone in mind for the 2013 Institute? Download the form and nominate him/her! The dates are:

Pre-Institute April 12-13

Summer Institute: 18 arranged sessions between

June 10 – July 3, 2013

6 GRADUATE CREDITS - FREE

BSWP Teaching for Social Justice

Never Again Is Now: Using Human Rights to Examine Ourselves, Our Communities and Our Humanity

Monday June 17, 2013 – *Saturday June 22, 2013 at Boise State University 

 Click here for more information

Teachers Writing for Publication

Workshop Details:

Jim Fredricksen, Co-Director, Boise State Writing Project and Assistant Professor, English, Boise State Writing Project will lead the workshop

 

Pre-Institute:  Saturday April 20 (8-1) in the Liberal Arts Building, Room 208, Boise State University (tentative)

The Institute: Monday July 8, 2013 – Friday July 12, 2013 (8-4:30) in the Interactive Learning Center, Room 313, Boise State University

Click here for more information
Project Citizen/Senior Project Info
A curricular program designed by the Center for Civic Education and administered in-state by the Idaho Human Rights Education Center, Project Citizen provides a practical, first-hand approach to learning about our complex system of government and how to monitor and influence it. Students work together to conduct research in their community in order to discover problems or concerns that they think the government is not handling at all or not handling well. Open this document for more information.

  BSWP is an affiliate of the National Writing Project and was established at Boise State in 2005. It offers programming throughout the year, including two annual conferences, a variety of courses and institutes, in-service series for schools, workshops and workshop series, retreats, programs for student writers and sponsored speeches and workshops with literacy experts. This past year, more than 1,000 Idaho educators received more than 30,000 hours of assistance.