The Rhode Island Writing Project's Summer Writing Camp is a program designed for students in grades K-12 who enjoy writing. The program runs from July 7-18, 9 am-12 pm each day, Monday through Friday and is in-person, on campus.
Join us this summer (July 8-10 & 15-17) at New Teacher Camp for a collaborative and supportive professional development opportunity for first through third year teachers! This event is free unless you would like to enroll in CURR 520 for 3 credits.
Join us this summer (July 8-10 & 15-17) at New Teacher Camp for a collaborative and supportive professional development opportunity for first through third year teachers! This event is free unless you would like to enroll in CURR 520 for 3 credits.
The Rhode Island Writing Project has always believed that the best professional development is also personal development! In this session come write, create art, and move your body.
The Rhode Island Writing Project has always believed that the best professional development is also personal development! With our partners at Thrive Outside, this session explores how gardening, native plants, and small-scale farming can empower teachers and students to make a meaningful impact in...
The Rhode Island Writing Project has always believed that the best professional development is also personal development! When your High Quality Curriculum just doesn’t satisfy you or your students’ creative appetites, poetry can broaden your culinary/curricular offerings.
The Rhode Island Writing Project (RIWP), founded in 1985, is a network of teachers dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning in all schools. RIWP teachers work in all content areas and at all grade levels, helping students become thoughtful readers and writers and connecting reading, writing, and content area learning. Find out more:
For Teachers - Overviews of Annual Events
For Schools - Overviews of Annual Events
Affiliated with the National Writing Project in Berkeley, California, and reflecting its model of “teachers teaching teachers,” RIWP teachers are leaders in their schools and communities who work to support students as they become avid and accomplished writers, readers, and inquirers. Leveraging the expertise of Rhode Island teachers, the RIWP provides sustained and supportive professional development opportunities. We offer the Summer Institute, the Open Air Institute, the Spring Conference, Embedded Institutes, and many other sources of learning. By supplementing teachers’ knowledge and skills surrounding diverse literacy practices, we work toward positive social change.
The Open Air Institute is a place-based form of professional development that integrates state and local history, geography, and culture with writing and educational practices. This unique, largely outdoor opportunity exposes participants to a wide variety of locations and experiences as we explore the features that make Rhode Island special. Each year’s event centers around a common theme. Past years’ themes have included topics ranging from rivers and coastlines to libraries and farms.
In our New Teacher Camp we welcome our rising teachers into the RIWP community. New Teacher Camp is designed for teachers entering year 1–3 of teaching in any age group and content area. Join us for a collaborative and supportive professional development opportunity. This experience will provide you with strategies for successful teaching practices, efficient day-to-day routines, self-care, and meeting others who are on this journey with you. NTC’s camp counselors are experienced teachers who will lead full-group gatherings, provide individual writing time, invite guest speakers, and offer many opportunities for learning. This event is free unless you would like to enroll in CURR 520 for 3 credits.
A diverse mix of experienced and soon-to-be educators will listen to and learn from an equally diverse mix of speakers and presenters. In a typical RIWP fashion, all will enjoy a professional development experience that is both informative and enriching.
Join us for a wonderful day that follows our typical pattern: we listen, learn, collaborate, write, and share. And at the end of the day, we often feel invigorated by the content and enriched by the camaraderie – as always.
Summer Institute (SI) is at the core of the National Writing Project's teachers-teaching-teachers model of professional development. Our institute is open to all current teachers who serve in K-12 classrooms. All content areas, including speciality areas such as special education and multilingual learning, are welcome to join us. Yep, you read that right: You do not need to be an English teacher in order to participate in this experience!
Ideal applicants are:
“As an educator and human being, I find myself more enabled to act on behalf of myself, my colleagues, and my students learning what I have during these past two weeks.”
“I was very thankful to focus on re-vision and advocacy after the stressful year I had had; I was able to look back at the advocacy from the previous year and analyze it to move forward and figure out how to better go about it in the future. It made me ready to start fresh.”
Our Summer Sampler is three days of professional development focused on a central theme, with each day tackling that theme through different modalities, settings, and practices. Teachers and pre-service teachers can participate in individual days or take part in all three days at a discount and gain Professional Learning Units:
Write Time is a monthly opportunity to work on your own writing in community with other educator-writers. Prompts will be provided by the facilitator in case you want to play with something new.
WAM stands for Writing, Art, and Movement. These are the hallmarks of our time together. In the past, we've had themes like "Tend Your Garden" where we stamped with veggies and wrote about food memories as well as "The Artist in You" where we created mixed media self-portraits and wrote artist statements with light stretching, yoga, and breathing practices sprinkled throughout. WAM is a refreshing and renewing personal and professional development experience!
Writers from grades 1 to 12 will spend two weeks in early July experimenting with writing in a variety of genres and sharing their work with peers. Whether writing personal narratives or new works of fiction, creating poetry or exploring the Ƶ campus in search of topics, or simply interacting with each other, students will enthusiastically engage in the process of writing. The writing camp is open to all students (K-12) who enjoy writing. For more information or questions, contact Camp Director Jeff Lawton.
“I love just everything we did and I’m also excited to perform our play!” -Grade 3 Student
“I think that this camp is amazing! It is fun and I meet so many great people that I look forward to seeing each summer!” -Grade 7 Student
“I am so happy that this program exists. I would rate the program a 10, as it’s a very positive and beneficial experience for the students. I’m thankful and happy that my child attended Writing Camp this summer.”
