 My name is Leslie Scan-Sogson, I'm the Director of Curriculum and Media Instruction at Smith Locational and Agricultural High School and I'm a teacher consultant with the Western Mass Writing Project. So the goals of the Civics Literacy Institute grew out of focus group meetings in a survey that we took last year where we learned that teachers are looking for content specific professional development but their time is so limited that they felt that anything that sounded like a writing project summer leadership institute was more writing and less content and so we thought we would design a content specific institute that would help them grow as teacher leaders and help them delve more into their discipline in an area of inquiry that appealed to them. So the other thing that's happening across the state is we are anticipating new recall frameworks, also the standards in social studies. There's also a new push across the state for civics, civic engagement and more attention on teaching civics in schools and so we do know that there will be opportunities for these teachers and that the Western Mass Writing Project has been called upon in the past to help disseminate information about professional development whenever the state has rolled out new frameworks and so we asked them to be prepared for that call and I'm aware that already two teachers have been tapped in their district or regional vocational school to do some professional development there and so yes that is the whole thing that is already starting to happen. I do see several of them staying connected. This is a group that is also well tapped into a local social studies and civics network through Rich Cairn who will be pulled in to help us with this institute. So some of them may stay connected through that network. Some may strengthen their ties with the Western Mass Writing Project, have expressed an interest in being notified of future opportunities and further professional development for themselves as well.