Bard College Institute for Writing & Thinking

09/04/2026

First Thoughts: Online Practice Labs begin on Friday October 2, 10:00-2:30 ET

FEATURING
Making Struggle Visible: Writing in the Age of AI

"Always helpful to remind myself of the visceral and mental toll being a student takes, and helps me frame my approaches" 2025 Participant

- Scholarships available (teachers new to IWT, pre-service teachers, and in-service teachers with limited pd funds.)
- Early-Bird rate until Sept. 11
- 3-Workshop Pack can be shared among a group of teachers throughout the year
- Scholarships available (teachers new to IWT, pre-service teachers, and in-service teachers with limited pd funds.)

https://iwt.bard.edu/online/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026_26ol-newsletter-9

09/04/2026

First Thoughts: Online Practice Labs begin on Friday October 2 10-2:30 ET

FEATURING
Making Struggle Visible: Writing in the Age of AI

"Always helpful to remind myself of the visceral and mental toll being a student takes, and helps me frame my approaches" -2025 Participant

- Scholarships available (teachers new to IWT, pre-service teachers, and in-service teachers with limited pd funds.)
- Early-Bird rate until Sept. 11
- 3-Workshop discount can be shared among a group of teachers throughout the year

https://iwt.bard.edu/online/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026_26ol-newsletter-9

Online Practice Labs

09/04/2026

First Thoughts: Online Practice Labs begin on Friday October 2 10-2:30 ET

Featuring: What Essays Teach

- Early-Bird rate until Sept. 11
- 3-Workshop discount can be shared among a group of teachers throughout the year
- Scholarships available (teachers new to IWT, pre-service teachers, and in-service teachers with limited pd funds.)

"This workshop reinforced the importance of slowing down, scaffolding skills, and offering students ways to share their ideas and their voices.
" -Participant feedback 2025

https://iwt.bard.edu/online/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026_26ol-newsletter-9

09/04/2026

First Thoughts: Online Practice Labs begin on Friday October 2.

Featuring:
Annotation: Cultivating Thinking on the Page
Friday October 2, 10-2:30 ET

- Early-Bird rate until Sept. 11
- 3-Workshop discount can be shared among a group of teachers
- Scholarships available (teachers new to IWT, pre-service teachers, and in-service teachers with limited pd funds.)

"I liked that people come from such diverse teaching backgrounds. Workshops like this really feel very democratic and generate a lot of solidarity between educators in K-12 and on a college level." -Participant feedback 2025

https://iwt.bard.edu/online/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026_26ol-newsletter-9

08/11/2026

Announcing the 2026 Writer As Reader Workshops
Friday, October 23, 2026 | 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM | In Person at Bard College

How can writing invite readers to linger with difficult passages, ask better questions, and discover new meanings together? Join IWT this fall for a day of immersive workshops that explore fresh ways of teaching literature, history, poetry, memoir, and other rich texts through writing.

Register today! iwt.bard.edu/writer-as-reader/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2026_26wasr-an

08/11/2026

Happy Back to School Season! Check out our newsletter- The IWT Notebook.

- Teacher Feature: Erin O'Connell from the Pennington School
- New online practice labs this year
- Reflections from the July Weeklong Workshops

https://mailchi.mp/bard/our-first-newsletter-plus-new-online-workshops

07/17/2026

Closing out the week with lots of gratitude. Thank you to the teachers who traveled far and wide to come spend the week here at Bard. We hope you enjoyed the time and space to restore your energy for the school year ahead.

July Weeklong Workshops @ Bard College

❤️

07/15/2026

🎶 🎨 When we bring music and art into the humanities classroom, we give students new ways in. A song or a painting can spark noticing, questioning, and wondering.

In the Forum, Close Listening: Music in the Humanities Classroom, teachers explored what happens when students read and write to music, using sound as a doorway into close reading, lively discussion, and expressive writing.

At the Hessel Museum of Art, teachers wrote in response to the museum's stunning new exhibitions featuring three remarkable women artists:
🧵 Marilou Schultz- acclaimed fourth-generation Navajo/Diné weaver and mathematics educator
🎨 Uman- multimedia artist based in upstate New York whose work traces her winding path as an immigrant and her evolution as a self-taught artist
🖼️ Betty Parsons- abstract painter, sculptor, and legendary champion of mid-century New York art.

July Workshops

07/14/2026

Shhh…
We are writing. ✍🏽
We are thinking. 🤔
July Workshops Bard College

07/13/2026

Welcome to the July Weeklong Workshops!

Yesterday we welcomed educators to Bard College for the start of a week dedicated to reading, writing, and thinking together.
From check-in and conversations over dinner to meeting new colleagues and settling into residence halls, the first day is always full of anticipation and excitement.

Over the coming week, participants will explore new classroom practices, write together, reflect on their teaching, and become part of a vibrant learning community.