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July Weeklong Workshops

Please note that Bard College’s current COVID-19 policies require all campus visitors to show proof of full vaccination. We are expecting the July Weeklong Workshops to take place in person, but we will continue to monitor the evolving situation and Bard College’s COVID-19 policies, as informed by state and county guidelines.

July 10–15, 2022

The July weeklong workshops help teachers deepen their understanding of writing-based teaching, its theory and practices, and its application in the classroom. Each workshop focuses on a particular form of writing—the essay, the academic paper, creative nonfiction—or on writing-based teaching in a particular subject area, such as history, science and math, or grammar.
 
The workshops offer a retreat in which participants learn new writing practices, read diverse texts, and collaborate with teachers from around the world on the Bard College campus. The luxury of time helps us envision how we might make these new practices our own by adapting writing prompts, accommodating collaborative learning in larger classes, and incorporating new readings. We also explore how different forms—like poetry, for instance—might inspire students from diverse backgrounds.
 
During the week, teachers live in private dorm rooms on the Bard campus, eat meals together, and enjoy the beautiful setting and lively atmosphere of Annandale-on-Hudson in the summer. Workshop groups meet for fourteen sessions, beginning Sunday evening, July 10. Subsequently, groups meet three times a day between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., except Wednesday and Friday, the final day, when workshops conclude at 1 p.m. Workshops are capped at 15 participants.
 
The schedule gives participants time to explore the scenic Mid-Hudson Valley and take advantage of lovely walking paths on Bard College campus. The week also includes opportunities for socializing and features a guest author reading from recent work. Meanwhile, the Bard SummerScape festival showcases an extraordinary program of performing arts and an international roster of acclaimed artists. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape.
 
Workshop offerings include:
Writing & Thinking
Writing to Learn
NEW! Reflective Writing for Agency, Equity, and Community
NEW! Writing-Based Teaching and Antiracist Pedagogies
Writing and Thinking: Restorative Words, Restorative Practices
Inquiry into Essay
Teaching the Academic Paper
Thinking Historically through Writing
Writing to Learn in the STEM Disciplines
Creative Nonfiction: Telling the Truth
Creative Nonfiction: Hybrid Narratives and the Power of Voice
Revolutionary Grammar

Read the full workshop descriptions in the expandable list below.

Registration deadline: July 5, 2022

Register here!

Announcing our 2022 guest readerCole Heinowitz!

Announcing our 2022 guest reader
Cole Heinowitz!

On Tuesday, July 12 at 7pm, scholar and poet Cole Heinowitz will read from her translations from the Spanish and the French. Her reading will draw from the poetry of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, an “Infrarealist” poet from the radicalized Mexicao City of the 1970s (immortalized in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives); from the letters of notorious “Theater of Cruelty” French poet, dramatist, and director Antonin Artaud; and from the essays of Alejandra Pizarnik, a wildly creative Argentinian poet who died by suicide in 1972. Heinowitz, who grew up bilingual in southern California, will discuss the inspiration of her career as a translator and the ways that her own poetic practice and scholarly work on Romantic poetry in Latin America continues to influence and inform her translations.


Registration and Fees

  • Tuition
    Registration deadline: July 5, 2022

    The rates below apply to registrations made before or on June 10, 2022, the deadline for all discounted rates.
    Early-Bird Rate: $2,500
    Early-Bird Group Rate: $2,250
    Early-Bird Commuter Rate: $2,200
    Early-Bird/Commuter/Group Rate: $1,980

    The rates below apply to registrations made after June 10, 2022.
    Standard Rate: $3,000
    Group Rate: $2,700
    Commuter Rate: $2,700
  • The Teresa Vilardi Scholarship
    IWT welcomes scholarship applications from those studying to become teachers (i.e., those registered in Bard’s MAT Program or another accredited undergraduate or graduate program in education) and in-service teachers with limited professional development funds. Deadline: June 1, 2022
    Apply for Scholarship Funding

    Tuition must be paid in full prior to arrival. Groups of three or more teachers from the same institution will qualify for the Group Rates. No overnight accommodations are provided for commuting participants but you are welcome to partake of meals at the dining hall.
     
  • Graduate Credit
    Bard College IWT and the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College have established a partnership that allows IWT workshop participants to earn one graduate credit for completing a July weeklong workshop, along with a process reflection paper and lesson plan that uses writing in the classroom. This credit option costs an additional $600. For further information, contact Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs Cecilia Maple at 845-758-7145 or [email protected]

    All Bard IWT workshops are Continuing Teacher and Leader Education approved in New York State. A one-day workshop is worth 7 CTLE hours and a weeklong workshop is worth 40 CTLE hours.

The Open Society University Network

IWT CLASP is offering limited spaces in the July workshops for OSUN partners. Interested OSUN faculty should email [email protected] indicating which workshop they hope to participate in and why. Your home institution will be responsible for travel and visa fees. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis with priority given to representing a range of OSUN partners.

2022 Workshop Offerings