UCI Writing Project - Summer Institute 2025
The Summer Institute is the centerpiece of the UCI Writing Project. It is an invigorating four-week seminar for teachers (pre-k through university). This year, the theme is “Into the Wild: Writing Beyond Boundaries.” Each fellow accepted to our program might interpret the theme differently. It might mean throwing caution to the wind in our writing, defying writing norms, going wild with writing strategies, supporting our students in their wild writing, or even literally going into the wild to write! In the summer of 2025, we're going to challenge our fellows to expand the boundaries of what counts as writing (and “good” writing), and to consider how they can provide their wild students with writing access and opportunities. Our project always recruits teachers of all levels. We often get many middle and high school teachers, so we also want to encourage elementary and early childhood teachers to also apply this year. This project is great for elementary teachers, too. Those young kids are also wild!