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SUNDAY, NOV. 19, 10:30 A.M.–12:00 P.M. NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT BRUNCH
Since its beginning in 1973–74, the National Writing Project (NWP) has promoted transformation in classroom practice and in the way classrooms are transformed. This year’s NWP Brunch will celebrate 50 years of teacher breakthroughs. Led by MARY ANN SMITH and SANDRA MURPHY, editors of When Challenge Brings Change: How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom, this session reveals the ways teachers successfully deal with challenges, uncovers important moments in teaching when new understandings trump old ways of doing things, and shows that writing about a breakthrough can deepen a transformation. Finally, this session will also serve as a call to action, inviting participants to write about their own breakthroughs—their moments of reframing, re-seeing, re-inventing.