San Jose Area Writing Project (SJAWP)

We have room for 2 more teachers! Preference will be given to elementary teachers but all teachers and student teachers are welcome to apply. Interviews must happen by this Friday so apply today if interested!

We have room for two more elementary teachers to join our Invitational Summer Institute, featuring workshops by authors Matt De La Peña, Maia Kobabe, and Misa Sugiura. Applicants must interview by Friday, May 20 so apply today if interested! Teachers can opt to receive either 6 units from SJSU or a small stipend for their participation. https://www.sjawp.org/copy-of-invitational-summer-institute

We're having a weekend flash sale! Both programs will be going back to Early Bird pricing only from this Friday to Sunday - register now here: Writing Workshop 2022: https://sanjoseareawritingproject.getgalore.com//69479-wri Teen Writers Institute 2022: https://sanjoseareawritingproject.getgalore.com//68853-tee

The San Jose Area Writing Project is proud to host author Maia Kobabe to engage teachers in a crucial conversation about diversifying texts and writing forms as part of our 2022 Invitational Summer Institute. Kobabe's graphic novel, GENDER QUEER, was just named the most banned book in America, thus highlighting the absolute need for representation in our school libraries and curriculum. As a bonus, e will be leading our teachers in a graphic novel writing class! All K-12 teachers are welcome to apply to join us this summer! https://www.npr.org//efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-an-unprec https://www.sjawp.org/copy-of-invitational-summer-institute

Registration now open!

Check out SJAWP Associate Director Marty Brandt and his former student Daniel Osorio. They were interviewed by Ken Futernick for the Teacher Stories podcast (link below).

Tonight we honor and remember our beloved founder and director Jonathan Lovell. https://youtu.be/0LYj8q6P2Y0

Now you can hear SJAWP Associate Director Marty Brandt narrate Between the Commas.

November 1st is next week. Don't miss out on NaNoWriMo.

Hi Friends, I'm happy to share this #SCCOE event with you all - a free virtual symposium that brings people together for the sake of enriching the learning exp...erience for us all. With 2 Keynotes and over 20 workshops, there's something for everyone - parents, teachers, yes, even the kids! Join us on Sat. Oct 17 and 24. Check out all the workshops and register. Free event! https://sites.google.com/view/sccoe-parent-engagement-2020 ** Dr. Joyce Epstein, Parent and Community Engagement Expert ** Ruby Ibarra, COVID researcher and Hip-Hop artist (check out her spoken word writing workshop!) ** Reading Without Walls with Graphic Campus ** Financial Literacy workshops ** Teen Vaping: What Parents Should Know Sensory Supports ** A Parent's Guide to Talking About Racism ** Mental Health and Wellness (Spanish) ** Many more... See more

Hi Friends, I'm happy to share this #SCCOE event with you all - a free virtual symposium that brings people together for the sake of enriching the learning exp...erience for us all. With 2 Keynotes and over 20 workshops, there's something for everyone - parents, teachers, yes, even the kids! Join us on Sat. Oct 17 and 24. Check out all the workshops and register. Free event! https://sites.google.com/view/sccoe-parent-engagement-2020 ** Dr. Joyce Epstein, Parent and Community Engagement Expert ** Ruby Ibarra, COVID researcher and Hip-Hop artist (check out her spoken word writing workshop!) ** Reading Without Walls with Graphic Campus ** Financial Literacy workshops ** Teen Vaping: What Parents Should Know Sensory Supports ** A Parent's Guide to Talking About Racism ** Mental Health and Wellness (Spanish) ** Many more... See more

So excited to be running the Fall 2020 Professional Learning Community for the San Jose Area Writing Project (SJAWP)! I love having the privilege to carry on the legacy of Dr. Jonathan Lovell.

Congratulations to SJAWP Associate Director Aeriale Johnson and Dr. Kimberly Parker on the publication of their article, Literacy as a Tool for Liberation!

Check out SJAWP Associate Director Marty Brandt on NWP Radio.

Special thanks to River Brown for sharing this quickwrite she produced during SJAWP's No Bad Sundays Writing Group this afternoon... Here’s to the women and the men who work in education especially public education.... You carry concern for many young people, even if your cares are tucked into the back of your mind parts of the day. You have so many things, little things, timely things, clock things, present things, pressing things, mandated things, frustrating things, impossible things, expected things, hopeful things, that you have to do. Add to things the things you dream to do that don’t comply with policy, the things there’s no budget for, not for these kids And who has any idea of really how demanding your work is if they have not tried it. At least for a year. Here’s to the dreamers who believe in the love of learning, to the tough who stay up late and get up early to face the challenges that are invisible to some. Here’s to service. To your dignity. Here’s to your talent, your life long reading, your organizing skills, and the gentle way you measure how to address a tentative student. Here’s to the broad sweep of your compassionate hearts that want to turn water into wine -- that want the pixels to turn into real people with you.

The Undistancing workshop is filling up FAST! We're almost halfway full and registration has been live for less than 24 hours. Register now if you'd like to secure a spot! https://www.care.com//42549-undistancing-creating-class-co

Check out how to build the most important feature of your distance teaching!

Great teachers!

Spread the word! SJAWP's Teen Novel Writing Program is now accepting applications! Informational session to be held via zoom on Friday, July 24 at 12pm. Email [email protected] for a link to attend and visit our website at https://www.sjawp.org/novel-writing-program for details.

Jenn participated in ISI 2002 and will be missed by her SJAWP family.

"This was a phenomenal interview. We are so lucky to have Aeriale N. Johnson as a leader on our writing project team and on the NCTE steering committee. This is a must watch for K-12 educators, parents, and anyone who is committed to learning about antiracism. Also, preorder your Antiracist Baby books. Let’s get these in classrooms and homes across the US! This is "Antiracist Baby" by NCTE Vimeo on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them." - Jane Gilmore, SJAWP Associate Director

REPOST: This was originally posted on the California Writing Project page on June 9. SJAWP stands alongside the other 14 Writing Project sites, in solidarity with BLM.