Ideas and Updates from Teachers Affiliated with the Chippewa River Writing Project
For teachers affiliated with the Chippewa River Writing Project, a picnic celebrating our accomplishments in the first five years marked the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year. Teachers from the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013 summer institutes joined together to reflect on our accomplishments and look ahead to the future. […]
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Connecting Positive YA Memories to Reading Unbound, The Book Whisperer, and Our Students This post is the first in a series designed to connect teachers’ remembered childhood and/or YA independent reading experiences and their current teaching practices to Jeff Wilhelm, Mike Smith, and Sharon Fransen’s new book, Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What […]
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“Resistance is futile.” So says an ominous voice from a Star Trek movie, and so I said to myself as I read the syllabus for the Chippewa River Writing Project summer institute, which I attended last summer. At the CRWP institute, you see, we would be required to implement…(insert dramatic, suspenseful music)…DIGITAL WRITING TOOLS!!! When […]
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I remember my first student teacher fondly. He was as eager and energetic as I was, ready to learn from me and to show he had what it takes to be a teacher. I was a seasoned teacher, but new to the student teacher mentoring process. Between the two of us, we worked out a […]
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At the 5th Anniversary celebration of the CRWP, I listened with a group of six other teacher-consultants as Jeremy Hyler informally fielded questions about teaching full-time and raising a family while co-authoring Create, Compose, Connect. Afterward, I realized that many teachers would like to hear Jeremy’s answers, so I invited him to participate in a […]
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