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Teach Reading Classes to Students of All Ages

Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2020

The Institute of Reading Development offers summer reading skills programs in partnership with the continuing education departments of more than 100 colleges and universities nationwide. Since 1970, the Institute’s teachers have helped over 3 million students master valuable reading skills and develop a lifelong love of reading.  Programs designed by the Institute give students the right skills, books, and experiences that result in greater success in school and beyond.

We are currently hiring hard-working, encouraging people with a passion for reading to teach our summer programs. As an Institute teacher you will:

• Earn up to $8,000 in one summer. Our full-time teachers typically earn $550-$700 per week.
• Improve your teaching skills and confidence during our comprehensive, paid training program.
• Gain over 400 hours of classroom teaching experience with a variety of age groups from 4-year-olds to adults.
• Help your students become successful readers with a love of great books.

We are seeking applicants from any academic discipline. All applicants must have an undergraduate degree or higher in their field before the start of our teaching season.

Successful Institute teachers:

• Have strong reading skills and read for pleasure
• Are responsible and hard-working, with good communication and organizational skills
• Will be patient and supportive with students

Learn more about teaching for us and apply today: Summer Teaching Jobs

The program offers MA students a deep dive into a humanities discipline like literature, history, philosophy, or a foreign language while helping them develop the skills and creative vision to apply humanities skills and habits of mind out in the world. 

The essential skills and methods common to the humanities have much to offer the global and local challenges we face. Collaborating closely with Georgetown faculty and with humanities professionals from the Washington DC area, students will learn how to articulate and apply the humanities in dynamic environments able to address the climate crisis, global health threats, artificial intelligence, big data, and issues of cultural division and diversity. 

Hallmarks of our new program include rigorous coursework, curated internship opportunities, events and site visits at humanities sites throughout the DC area, curricular flexibility, and intensive mentoring from both faculty and local humanities professionals. 

Students may visit our website at https://publichumanities.georgetown.edu/ for more information and to see our webinar schedule. Queries about the application process and the program can be directed to, publichumanities@georgetown.edu

Michigan Outdoor Writers Association/Toyota “Let’s Go Places” Scholarship $3,600 Available

The Michigan Outdoor Writers Association (MOWA), in conjunction with Toyota Motor North America,offers up to $3,600 annually to college student Michigan residents interested in communicating aboutthe outdoors experience.

From issues like public lands, wildlife diseases, local water quality, challenges to outdoor recreationactivities or nature writing, the possible areas of interest and expression are vast; so are the media inwhich one specializes: journalism, videography, podcasts, nature photography, essays, books. Theintent of the scholarship is to help subsidize the efforts of individuals as they take the next steps towardachieving this career goal.

MOWA is the state-level organization of professional outdoors communicators.

Requirements

1. Michigan resident
2. Graduating community college student, junior or senior status at any four-year university, or gradstudent – out-of-state schools OK if student is a Michigan resident.
3. Obey the laws governing outdoors-recreational activities and support the rights of individualsengaged in those activities.
4. The scholarship(s) will be awarded at the annual MOWA conference in mid-May in Houghton Lake.We hope the winner(s) will be able to attend.
5. Application materials must be received by April 10, 2020.

How to Apply

The application process for the MOWA/Toyota Let’s Go Places Scholarship comprises two steps: tell usabout yourself, and show us how you like to communicate about the outdoors.

NYU Summer Creative Writing Opportunities for Undergraduates

The NYU Creative Writing Program will offer three 4-week summer program opportunities: Writers in Paris, Writers in New York, and Writers in Florence. Our programs are open to all NYU undergraduates as well as visiting undergraduate students. Information about these programs can be found below. 

If you have any questions or would like additional details, please write to creative.writing@nyu.edu or to the specific program contact listed below.

Writers in New York

International Student Deadline: March 15, 2020; Priority Deadline: April 15, 2020, after which admissions is rolling until the program is full

Contact: Joanna Yas (writers.in.ny@nyu.edu)

Faculty includes: Fatima Farheen Mirza, Matthew Rohrer, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Helen Schulman, Irini Spanidou, Darin Strauss, Maria Venegas, Rachel Zucker; Director: Joanna Yas

Writers in New York (June 1–June 25, 2020) offers students of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction an opportunity to develop their craft while living the writer's life in Greenwich Village. Daily workshops and craft seminars are supplemented by readings and lectures by New York-based writers and publishing professionals. Field trips, cultural activities, readings, and guest lectures constitute an integral component of the program. Enrollment information: http://as.nyu.edu/cwp/summer-programs/writers-in-new-york/How_to_Enroll.html

Writers in Paris

Priority Deadline: February 1, 2020; General Deadline: March 1, 2020
Final Deadline: April 15, 2020 (if spots remain available)

Contact: Lisa Gerard (writers.in.paris@nyu.edu)

Faculty Includes: Catherine Barnett, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Freeman, Katie Kitamura, Hari Kunzru, Robin Coste Lewis, Meghan O'Rourke, Darin Strauss; Director: Deborah Landau

Writers in Paris (June 26-July 25, 2020) students choose to focus on poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction, and attend daily writing workshops, craft seminars, and literary readings and events. Writing and reading assignments are designed to encourage immersion in the city. For example, poets might visit the Louvre to write ekphrastic poems or create Parisian street sonnets by taking a 14-block walk of the St. Denis area, where François Villon lived, and generating a line of poetry per block. Fiction writers might study dialogue by listening for overheard speech at a sidewalk café or learn about description and setting by writing a story set in the neighborhood where Hemingway lived and worked. Enrollment information: https://www.nyu.edu/academics/studying-abroad/summer-abroad/programs/writers-in-paris.html

Writers in Florence

Priority Deadline: February 1, 2020; General Deadline: March 1, 2020
Final Deadline: April 15, 2020 (if spots remain available)

Contact: Lisa Gerard (writers.in.florence@nyu.edu)

Faculty Includes: Catherine Barnett, Mark Bibbins (Director), Katie Kitamura, Hari Kunzru, Valeria Luiselli

Writers in Florence (May 31-June 27, 2020): In this Tuscan retreat for undergraduates, students work intensively to generate new writing while finding literary inspiration in the enchanting, historically rich setting of Florence and Villa La Pietra. The program features nightly readings and lectures on writing and the writer’s life. On weekends, students have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of their literary predecessors: they might walk along the Arno River, view the sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo, or visit Tuscan gardens and vineyards. Classes and events are held at Villa La Pietra. Bequeathed to NYU in 1994 by Sir Harold Acton, the Florentine campus consists of 5 historic villas and 57 acres of gardens and olive groves. Enrollment information: https://www.nyu.edu/academics/studying-abroad/summer-abroad/programs/writers-in-florence.html

The Irene Adler Prize:

A $1,000 Scholarship for Women Writers

The 2020 competition runs from January 30 to April 30.

Writing has given me a rich and exciting life.

I’ve traveled the world from Sweden to South Africa, from the Golden Globes to the Olympic women’s hockey finals. I’ve photographed a mother polar bear and her cubs and profiled stars like ABBA, Jennifer Garner and Katarina Witt. And I couldn’t have done it without women.

I’ve been very fortunate, and it’s time for me to give back. With the Irene Adler Prize, I’m awarding a $1,000 scholarship to a woman pursuing a degree in journalism, creative writing, or literature at a recognized post-secondary institution in the U.S. or Canada, based on an essay competition.

My mother is a journalist and my sister works in publishing. The editors who gave me my big breaks with the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Geographic are all female. Nearly every story of mine that’s won an award was assigned by a woman. Teachers, librarians, publicists, literary agents, fellow writers…I could go on. Women have had a huge impact on my career.

In today’s challenging climate, I want to let my female colleagues know – past, present and future – that they and their work are respected and valued. This is not to minimize men. It’s to help maximize the talents of the other 50 percent of the world’s population, which is too frequently shortchanged. The time is right.

For other inquiries, email lucas@lucasaykroyd.com

Submit your story to GLOBAL VYBE

The Global Vybe challenges people to consistently redefine and implement human characteristics of goodness, then mindfully sustain that energy, each and every day.

We are an “unlabeled” resource for parents, teachers, leaders and all humans for inspiration, love, learning and self-growth.

We strive to open dialog regarding the question, “What does it mean to be human?”

Together, we can raise Earth’s Vybe to Peace, Unity and Love."

Submissions consist of 300-800 word stories or examples of one of the 'vybes' listed on the website, and could be selected in the next month or so to be part of the first book published by the organization. Global Vybe is still looking for a wide variety of submissions by a wide variety of people. It is open to all ages, genders, ethnicities, etc. 

Do you have a story which exemplifies one of the Global Vybe's official VYBES?  The Global Vybe would love to hear that story!  Click here for submission information.