Category: News and Notes
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Restore, Reconnect, Rejuvenate: An Open Institute for Teacher Writers
Restore, Reconnect, Rejuvenate! This summer, June 13-17, 2022, teacher leaders from the Chippewa River Writing Project offer our colleagues an opportunity for restoration, reconnection, and rejuvenation through writing. At the end of another unique school year, we welcome you to bring renewed joy to your teacher’s soul by participating in enriching teaching demonstrations led by…
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Helping Struggling Writers and English Language Learners – Session 2 of the 2021-22 CRWP Webinar Series
? Megan Kowalski (@MeganKowalski7) was the second presentation in our line up for the 2021/2022 webinar series. Megan presented on the ways that she helps struggling writers and English Language Learners (ELLs) in both physical and virtual classrooms. Megan has taught a variety of elementary and middle school grade level special education students for Chicago…
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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…