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Workshops in Writing and Thinking for High School StudentsWith generous support from the Bingham Trust, the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking established the National Writing and Thinking Network in 1986 to provide imaginative, stimulating, and enjoyable summer writing programs for high school students.
The Network's summer workshops are modeled on the innovative three-week Workshop in Language and Thinking that Bard College requires of all entering students. Offered at three college-based sites in late June and July, the summer workshops are intended for intellectually curious and motivated high school students in grades 9 through 12 who like to write and want to develop greater fluency and confidence in their writing. These two- and three-week workshops offer students the opportunity to work in a range of fiction and nonfiction forms, including poems, narratives, and essays, and to strengthen their writing and thinking skills. The Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College has since 1982 worked with approximately 47,000 teachers from hundreds of schools and colleges in its professional development programs. Through a national faculty of Institute Associates, the Institute offers 30 different one-day, weekend, and weeklong workshops on Bard's campus each year, an annual national conference, on-site consulting workshops, and publication of books and in-service materials for teachers. The Institute has been supported by grants from the Chase Manhattan, Ford, Booth Ferris, Exxon, Apple, Goldsmith, Guttman, Hazen, AT&T, Matsushita, Xerox, ANL, Sprague, Snow, SONY, Greenwall, New York Times, IBM, Geraldine R. Dodge, Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein, Arthur Vining Davis, and Ira W. DeCamp Foundations; The Bingham Trust; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information contact the workshop sites directly. Participating Institutions for 2008
For more information about the National Writing and Thinking Network or the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College, write to:
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