Chippewa River Writing Project
A site of the National Writing Project at Central Michigan University
As part of the Chippewa River Writing Project’s on-going book club discussions, we were pleased to welcome fellow Michigan educator and Lake Michigan Writing Project teacher consultant — as well as best-selling author and international speaker — Dave Stuart Jr. Stuart joined book club members to discuss ideas from his book These 6 Things: How […]
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In our final webinar for the 2021/2022 school year, CRWP’s own Ana Contreras (@AnaContrerasENG), an English faculty member at Harper College near Chicago, helped us evaluate our syllabi to get us to start thinking a bit about our work next year. Ana’s presentation is broken up into chunks of deep thought and discussion followed by […]
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In our April webinar, Andy Schoenborn (@aschoenborn), a high school ELA teacher, the Past President of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English, and the current Vice-President of the Michigan Reading Association discussed some of the incredible ways he teaches poetry in his classes. Andy talks about the importance of helping students find their voices […]
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In our February webinar, Travis Crowder (@teachermantrav), a middle school ELA teacher in North Carolina, invites us to try to tackle the ever-present issue when students tell us, “I have nothing to write about.” He and his students are currently in the midst of the process described in the webinar, and he is seeing some […]
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