Category: Continuity
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A Reflection on Our First Annual Winter Writing Retreat
As spring comes to Michigan, we reflect on one particularly enjoyable weekend this past February. The East Bay Lodge in Prudenville, Michigan, on the expansive (and frozen) Houghton Lake was the site of our first annual winter retreat for teacher consultants from CRWP. Eight members of the CRWP met for a three-day experience centered around…
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CRWP Teacher Explores Multigenre/Multimedia Writing
Writing with cell phones and computers. Writing about bodily functions and war. Writing multigenre digital media projects. This is how Fulton Middle School language arts teacher Jeremy Hyler gets 7th and 8th grade boys to enjoy reading and writing in his classroom. According to Hyler, successfully motivating boys to write means giving them plenty of…
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CRWP Teacher Participants Keep the SI Experience Alive through E-Anthology
While the 2011 Summer Institute may be drawing to a close, for Chippewa River Writing Project participants, the writer’s journey is far from over. To many of these writers, E-Anthology is a tool that will help carry their experiences at the SI forward into the months to come. Developed in 1997 by a group of…
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CRWP Teachers Advocate for Continued NWP Funding
While the debate continues about the funding for the National Writing Project, teacher leaders from the Chippewa River Writing project have made their support of the national network known in a variety of ways, from face-to-face meetings in Washington D.C. to interviews with national media, and participation in a grassroots blogging effort. 2011 NWP Spring…
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Chippewa River Writing Project Teacher Spotlight: Debbi Meister
This past holiday season brought even more to celebrate this year for Chippewa River Writing Project team member Debbi Meister. Meister, a teacher at Fellowship Baptist Academy in Carson City and alum of the CRWP 2009 Summer Institute, recently completed her master’s degree program at Central Michigan University. CRWP team members joined Meister in the celebration during their annual…