Chippewa River Writing Project
A site of the National Writing Project at Central Michigan University
The third year of CRWP’s Secret Book exchange had a lighter mood than ever before. Many of us are leaving pandemic life and some of the pandemic traditions developed the last few years behind us. Some, we are keeping around because they still bring us joy and fit into our lives. One of those traditions […]
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Though we are entering the third year of a pandemic, this is our second year of what we have developed as an annual tradition at the Chippewa River Writing Project (CRWP). In 2020 and 2021, members of our site filled out a Google Form giving a book type selection and their address. I randomly matched […]
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At the time I am writing this, the one-year anniversary of March 13, 2020, is looming large upon me like this dark unknown specter. It’s almost like an unseen barrier that we are all holding our breath until we get across, because who knows what is on the other side? To say I don’t recognize […]
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“I think you should see if the Writing Project is doing a Summer Institute this year,” my mentor teacher, Chanda Stafford, said to me during one of our many meetings last year. As a first year teacher, I had no idea what that meant, so I nodded, and absent-mindedly made a note of it on […]
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