Contract and Timeline

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Participant Contract:

In addition to extrinsic rewards like the welcome gifts (nifty jumpdrive, password passbook, limited-edition keychain) and intrinsic rewards (knowledge, fun, support, resources, camaraderie), ATI2010 participation also comes with a $500 stipend: $250 at the end of September and $250 at the end of the 2010-2011 school year. Please note that "at the end" also translates to "successful completion of the associated tasks," like full summer attendance and workshop/project planning/coaching, delivery, and debriefing.

In order to reap these extrinsic and intrinsic benefits, you really must:

• Bring morning munchies one day during the summer session.
• Attend both days of all three summer sessions.
• Attempt everything on the agenda. You don’t have to fall in love with everything we do, and after you’ve tried everything, you can vow never to use/do it again, but we do ask that you try on everything. Otherwise, how will you know how well it fits?
• Undertake a modest technology project of your choosing to launch with your students during the 2010-2011 school year—and please do pick something in which you are interested, not just something pressed on you from above, below, or next to you. This is your time.
• Develop and deliver a workshop which may or may not be based on your tech project. If you don’t want to or can’t give a workshop, you can negotiate an alternative project with the RWP TechTeam to publish online.
• Arrange and attend a coaching session if you give a workshop; participate in someone else’s coaching session if you do not give a workshop.
• Participate in regular, school-year support sessions by the posted deadlines.
• Contribute by lending moral support to your colleagues.
• Notify Tracy if you want to cloak any of your material once we go public in spring 2011. (We will keep our work private during the 2010-2011 school year, if the group votes to do so, but we would like to “publish” our work and activities at the end of that period. We will respect your privacy, of course; we just need to know what you want kept out of the limelight.)

We acknowledge that the money isn’t great, but we can promise that ATI2010 will deliver that for which the Writing Project is rightfully famous: sanctioned time and support to do the things in our classrooms that we already want to do.

Participant Timeline: