TCs! Join us this year for a FREE Mini Summer Institute. The 3-days will include personal writing time, lesson exchange, and planning opportunities. This is a chance to reconnect with writing project folks, decompress from the school year, and is the perfect opportunity for you to introduce a colleague to the Writing Project community.
Our themes for this summer will include joy, personal and professional writing, and discussions of topics currently impacting classrooms (eg., AI, grading, classroom routines, etc). Our intention for the institute is to reconnect ourselves with the magic of the writing project and to share that joy with colleagues.
Details
- Date: June 30 - July 2, 2025
- Location: UC Davis
- Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
- Who: Current Educators of all grades and subject areas
- Cost: Free
- Lunch will be provided.
Don’t Hesitate
by Mary OliverIf you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed or about
to be. We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this
is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happens better than all the riches
or power in the world. It could be anything,
but very likely you notice it in the instant
when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case.
Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.