Continuing Education
Four-Week Invitational Summer Institute
Date: 9:00am PDT June 25, 2018 Location: Location TBA
Location TBA
Oregon Writing Project’s Invitational Summer Institute provides a supportive, dialogic environment for K-12 educators from across the curriculum to develop their leadership potential for a variety of roles, including local school/district reform efforts that support the education and success of all of Oregon’s diverse student population.
Participants will examine the theory and practice of writing through individual demonstrations, readings and discussion of current research, writing, and sharing in response groups.
Social justice and social action scaffold the Summer Institute experience in an attempt to embrace democratic ideals.
Program Details & Application
Dates: June 25 - July 20, 2018 (no class July 4)
Time: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Instructors: Linda Christensen, MEd, OWP Director, and OWP Teacher Consultants
Degree-applicable credit: ED 692, 7 semester hours, Credit Rate TBA
Continuing education credit: CEED 892, 7 semester hours, $2,450
Some districts reimburse all or part of the tuition for this program.
Participants must submit an application to be accepted into this program. Early decision application deadline: March 9. Interviews begin March 12, or sooner. Early decision participants will be notified by April 6, or sooner. If space is still available after early decision applicants are accepted, then the FINAL deadline for other applications is April 27. Please be aware that in Spring 2016, OWP’s Summer Institute was full to capacity by spring break, and no applications were accepted in April.
Click here to download details about the application calendar and costs
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For more information, contact Pam Hooten at 503-768-6132 or phooten@lclark.edu.
About the Instructor
Linda Christensen, M.Ed. has been involved in the Oregon Writing Project (OWP) since her first National Writing Project Summer Institute in 1980. An often requested keynote speaker at educator conferences nationally and internationally, Linda has taught and/or provided literacy coaching in public schools for 30 years, including seven years as the PPS district language arts specialist, and regularly provides professional development in writing across the curriculum for regional schools. Linda is an activist, leader, and author for Rethinking Schools, a national grassroots teacher reform organization, and author of two books: Reading, Writing and Rising Up and Teaching for Joy and Justice.