for teachers

Registration

Registration Form

To register for any of the workshops or conferences:

1. Complete the registration form. We will confirm receipt of your registration.

2. Please send a non-refundable deposit of $60 for weekend or weeklong workshops. The balance (minus deposit) for these workshops is due either before or at registration. Please see below for total weekend and week-long workshop fees. For the November workshops, please send full-payment of $130.

NOTE: We can not refund fees for workshops cancelled less than a week before the event. Thank you.

Judi Smith
Institute for Writing and Thinking
Bard College
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
E-mail: jsmith@bard.edu

For workshops, your registration will not be held without the deposit. Deposit is to be deducted from the entire fee. Deposit must be received within 10 days of registration. (Make checks payable to the Institute for Writing and Thinking.)

3. The balance of the fee is due at on-site registration.

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Fees and Discounts

Weekend Workshops: The complete weekend workshop fee is $600. This fee includes tuition, meals (excluding Saturday dinner), and materials. It does not include housing. Upon registration, participants will receive a list of local area accommodations. The Holiday Inn in Kingston, New York (845-338-0400) offers rooms at a discount for those reserving rooms at least two weeks in advance.

Weeklong Workshops: The weeklong workshop fee is $950. The fee includes tuition and a single-occupancy room on the Bard campus, meals (beginning with Sunday dinner and ending with Saturday breakfast), and materials. The commuter fee is $750.

One-Day: Writer as Reader Workshops: The one-day workshop fee is $130 for tuition, morning coffee, lunch, and materials. The Institute encourages teachers from the same school to participate by offering a 10 percent discount to schools sending a team of three or more teachers to any of the workshops.

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Local Accommodations

The Institute for Writing and Thinking has special rates available at the Kingston Holiday Inn. Please follow the links below to reserve a room for your workshop.

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Discounted fees for prospective teachers

For general information about workshop registration, call or write:

Judi Smith, Program Administrator
Institute for Writing and Thinking
Bard College
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
Phone: 845-758-7484
E-mail: jsmith@bard.edu

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Academic Credit

Through the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program at Bard College, workshop participants may earn one graduate credit for each weekend workshop, plus a process reflection paper, or two graduate credits for the July weeklong workshop, plus a process reflection paper and a lesson plan on using writing in the classroom. Graduate credit is not given for participation in one-day workshops or conferences. An additional fee of $100 is required which pays for feedback on the first draft of the student's paper, the final grading, and the first copy of his or her transcript. Students should send in a check made payable to Bard College with their first draft. For further information, please call or write Cecilia Maple, MAT Program, Bard College, 845-758-7145, or e-mail cmaple@bard.edu.

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Contact

Teresa Vilardi, Director, Institute for Writing and Thinking
Phone: 845-758-7432
E-mail: vilardi@bard.edu

Joan Retallack, Director, Bard College Workshop in Language and Thinking, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College, and Senior Fellow, Institute for Writing and Thinking
Phone: 845-758-7398
E-mail: retallack@bard.edu

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