Troy Hicks
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Mystery Argument Writing – Session 1 of the 2021-22 CRWP Webinar Series
Jeremy Hyler (@Jeremybballer) and Becky Schwartz (@Rschwartz702) kicked off our 2021-22 webinar series with a presentation about argument writing in their classrooms. Their unit was inspired by the book Crime and Puzzlement by Lawrence Treat. Jeremy has taught this unit in his middle school classroom and Becky has adapted it for use in her high…
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CRWP 2021-22 Webinar Series
Creating the New Normal In Our Classrooms (October 2021 – May 2022) View our flyer on Smore. As we embark on another year of historic changes in education, we find that we have been given ( or maybe thrust is the more accurate word) the opportunity to create what the new normal in our classrooms…
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CRWP Announces Fall 2021 Leadership Institute
CRWP will set out once again to offer a fall leadership institute in the tradition of the National Writing Project‘s mantra, “Teachers Teaching Teachers.” We plan to welcome 12 educators to learn from each other through collaboration, renewing our practices as teachers of writing, adapting those practices for remote learning, and demonstrating our lessons for…
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Poems as Portals – Session #8 of the CRWP 2020-21 Webinar Series
In our final webinar for the 2020/2021 school year, CRWP’s teacher consultant, former MCTE President, and author, Andy Schoenborn (@aschoenborn), talked about teaching poetry in both virtual and face to face settings. He invited us to consider how poetry is not necessarily a therapy, but it is therapeutic. In this webinar, Schoenborn blended writing…
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Ask, Explore Write – Session #7 of the CRWP 2020-21 Webinar Series
In our March webinar, CRWP’s director, Dr. Troy Hicks (@hiskstro) and one of our teacher consultants Jeremy Hyler (@Jeremybballer) discuss cross-curricular literacy and connect writing in science and English. They began by telling us about some of the work they have done on Beaver Island with other science and English teachers. This work allows science…