Category: Professional Development
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Announcing Our 2019 Beaver Island Institute
Experience a unique, one-week (August 4-9, 2019) field experience at CMU’s Biological Station on Beaver Island of Lake Michigan. Registration costs for this experience — including ferry service to and from the island, room and board at the CMU Biological Station, and workshop expenses — is $825. A $100 non-refundable deposit will be due by May 1,…
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2018 CRWP Teacher Leadership Institute
Central Michigan University and Mt. Pleasant Public Schools invite you to participate in a one-of-a-kind professional development experience as a member of the Chippewa River Writing Project, CMU’s site of the National Writing Project. Consisting of a network of nearly 200 sites, the National Writing Project offers teachers across all disciplines the opportunity to be…
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Announcing Our 2018 Beaver Island Institute
Experience a unique, one-week (August 12-17, 2018) field experience at CMU’s Biological Station on Beaver Island of Lake Michigan. Valued at nearly $1000 per participant, this program is generously sponsored by the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation. Priority will be given to teachers from the Great Lakes Bay Region of Michigan, whose costs will be…
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Open Talk from Authors of “They Say/I Say” – August 25, 2017
“Academic writing … calls upon writers not to simply express their own ideas, but to do so as a response to what others have said.” The Chippewa River Writing Project invites you to a conversation with the authors of They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein. August…
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Announcing Our 2017 Open Institute: College-Ready Writers
CRWP 2017 Open Institute for College-Ready Writers – Web The National Writing Project’s College-Ready Writers Program answers the contemporary call for respectful argumentative discourse. The instructional resources help teachers and students read critically, explore multiple points of view, and finally take a stand on important issues. A national program, the College Ready Writers Program…