Katherine Schulten and the Learning Network AND “…making the case for the NWP - TTT191 - 03.10.10
Posted by Paul Allison on 11th March 2010
Katherine Schulten and the Learning Network AND "...making the case for the NWP - TTT191 - 03.10.10 [67:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
ACTION ALERT! (To learn more, please listen to this week’s podcast.)
Those of us who are members of local Witing Projects are asking for your help to keep federal funds for the National Writing Project. Organizers have 26 signatures on the House Dear Colleague letter, and just ONE day left! OUR DEADLINE IS TOMORROW, MARCH 12. Please call your representatives now and urge them to support NWP and to recognize its invaluable contribution to teachers and students across the country by signing on to this letter.
Teachers do a tremendous job educating Congress about the importance of writing project programs. Thank you all for your powerful emal messages and persuasive phone calls, and most important, your follow-up. While we have no control over
the timeline for this process, we do have the power of an extraordinary networkof leaders like YOU!
Now is the time to follow up with all members who have committed support for NWP. If your representatives signed the House Dear Colleague letter in 2009,please thank them for their past support and urge them to sign the letter again.
Your representatives can sign the Dear Colleague letter by contacting Alexandria (Ria) Ruiz in Representative Miller’s office at 202-225-3725. ONLY REPRESENTATIVES OR THEIR AIDES, NOT NWP SITE LEADERS, SHOULD CONTACT ALEXANDRIA.
If your representative is not on the list below, please call the DC office and ask to speak to the education aide. If the aide has not seen the letter, please email or fax it to him or her. The letter can be found here:
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/
House Dear Colleague Cosigners
Last Updated: March 11
Deadline: March 12
1. George Miller (D-CA)
2. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
3. Leonard Boswell (D-IA)
4. Lois Capps (D-CA)
5. Russ Carnahan (D-MO)
6. Bill Delahunt (D-MA)
7. John Dingell (D-MI)
8. Sam Graves (R-MO)
9. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
10. John Hall (D-NY)
11. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY)
12. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
13. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
14. Rush Holt (D-NJ)
15. Dale Kildee (D-MI)
16. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM)
17. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
18. Doris O. Matsui (D-CA)
19. Jerry McNerney (D-CA)
20. James Oberstar (D-MN)
21. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV)
22. Mike Ross (D-AR)
23. Joe Sestak (D-PA)
24. Paul Tonko (D-NY)
25. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
26. David Wu (D-OR)
END OF THE ACTION ALERT!
In the first half of th
is weeks episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we had an inspiring conversation with Katherine Schulten editor of The Learning Network at the New York Times. Our theme for this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers was about increasing teacher voice in public debates. Katherine suggested how we might use The Learning Network for that.
In addition, we were joined by:
- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, director of National Programs and Site Development at the National Writing Project, University of California, Berkeley
- and Andrea Zellner a leader at the Red Cedar Writing Project, Michigan State University’s site of the NWP.
Andrea and many others in the chat room during the webcast gave witness to why we want to maintain federal funding for the NWP to continue — an example of a time when we need to get our voices to be heard!
Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast, and to see more about the Learning Network.
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