The Project's work is scaffolded by weeklong summer institutes (two in July and two in August) which bring more than 3,500 teachers, coaches, and administrators to Teachers College, Columbia University. The summer institutes include small, grade-specific group writing or reading workshops, and large group sections designed to help teachers strengthen their methods of teaching. Most institutes feature keynote addresses by celebrated educators and authors. In every state across the nation and beyond, graduates of these institutes have established vibrant, rigorous models of best practices, demonstrating again and again that learning to read and write well can be a joyful and deeply enriching process. The summer institutes offer first year participant sections, and advanced sections for returning participants.
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Each year the Project offers a four-day mini-institute the third week in February. Participants come from around the world to join us for study in a focused area of reading or writing. Past topics have included "Using Touchstone Texts to Teach Reading and Writing Well," "Effective Small Group Instruction in the Teaching of Reading," and "Nonfiction Reading and Writing." The February mini-institute includes both small group workshops and large group sections designed to help teachers strengthen their methods of teaching. This year's institute will explore content area reading and writing.
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For three decades, the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project has been one of the nation's premier providers of literacy coaching. Throughout this time, scores of extraordinary classroom teachers have joined the Project's staff, becoming part of a thought collaborative which has helped them learn, develop, practice, and refine state-of-the-art methods of staff development. We are pleased to continue our flagship endeavor to equip literacy coaches from across the world with the tools, techniques, mentors and intellectual community needed to provide state-of-the-art literacy leadership. The institute for literacy coaching offers sections for first year participants and advanced sections for returning coaches. Admission into the institute is competitive. Applicants need to write a letter demonstrating prior knowledge of reading and writing workshops.
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