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IWT Workshops and Opportunities

IWT pedagogy emphasizes hands-on instruction in a collaborative learning environment.
Our workshops hone skills that help students discover and interpret meaning, engage in productive dialogue, and learn critical thinking skills that support academic writing and learning.

Current Workshops and Conferences

Our Annual Programs

  • Writer as Reader
    October 25, 2024
    Our annual Writer as Reader workshops focus on often-taught texts, modeling collaborative writing-to-read strategies that enhance student engagement.


    About Writer as Reader
  • New Kinds of Attention
    February and March 2025
    These four-hour online sessions offer short introductions to some of our most popular workshops, as well as a selection of special topics.
    About NKOA Workshops
  • April Conference
    April 25, 2025
    “Serious Play: Cultivating Joy in the Writing Process”

    This event is hybrid. Join us in person at Bard College or online! 


    About the Conference
  • July Weeklong Workshops
    July 13–18, 2025
    The July workshops offer teachers the opportunity to deepen their understanding of writing-based teaching and its applications. Participants write and collaborate with teachers from around the world.
    About July Workshops

Our International Network

Working together with international partner institutions and faculty, IWT provides hands-on, experiential opportunities to use writing- and student-centered pedagogies to foster students’ capacities for thinking analytically, communicating proficiently, and retaining and transferring knowledge to new situations. 

View International Workshops

What Our Participants Say

“I have attended many Bard workshops these past two decades, and I leave each one full, having digested a variety of options, and reminded of how much can be accomplished when unburdened by the need to do it all.”

—Writer as Reader participant