carol report

Charge

As you do your reflection and planning, remember that the responsibilities of the lead sites include:

  • building on, studying, refining, and expanding your efforts to
    offer professional development that supports the wise integration of
    technology into the teaching of writing and learning in classrooms;
  • sharing and deepening your work by networking with other sites and NWP technology staff; and
  • reporting on your efforts and respond to queries from our program sponsors should they arise.

We will need these final reflections and plans for next year no later
than September 16, 2005 so that we can get you your site awards by the
beginning of October. As you work on your plan, feel free to contact
Elyse,  or Christina for programmatic questions or Mike Mathis for
help with the budget.

Once these are finalized, we would like to share your reflective and
planning text with the leaders of the other lead sites within this
Initiative. This would be done privately and electronically within this
community (as opposed to the public weblog, for instance), so please
imagine your audience to consist of Christina, Elyse and Marci Resnick,
as well as the leaders of other lead sites.

Reflecting on Year One

Please summarize the goals your site has for this work and
describe your progress and “lessons learned” so far through the
2004-2005 year.

Consider questions like:

  1. What are you learning from this project that supports the
    thoughtful integration of technology into the teaching and learning of
    writing in schools?
  2. What are learning that support the core work of your writing project site?
  3. What struggles, challenges, and questions have emerged so far from the work and how does this affect your future work?

We are also interested in hearing about how you are documenting and
capturing the work so far. (You are welcome to share any materials or
resources that have been developed or distributed that might help to
illustrate your work. If you don’t mind them being public, you may post
them to http://blogs.writingproject.org/ti/.

(To share resources only among this community, please email them to us directly or to the private Lead Site discussion.)