Category: NWP
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CRWP Article from The News@CMU
An article by Tracy Burton featuring CRWP is now up and available on the News@CMU website: ‘Teachers teaching teachers’ focus of National Writing Project site at CMU After 29 years of teaching high school English, Kathy Kurtze returned to her classroom this fall with a set of fresh ideas and resources she gathered from her…
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CRWP Summer Institute Concludes Successfully, School Year Programs Begin
Participants in this year’s inaugural Chippewa River Writing Project Summer Institute found over their four weeks together the time, energy, and support that they needed as writers and teachers of writing. One anonymous evaluation comment summarized the feelings of many in stating, “After this summer, I feel so much more prepared to teach writing in…
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CRWP Feature Story and Podcast in The News @ Central
From the the News @ CMU Website: Thursday, May 14, 2009 CMU becomes site for National Writing Project New site to bring technology to schools in central and northeastern Michigan Michigan teachers will benefit from professional development in writing and technology through a new site of the National Writing Project at Central Michigan University. The…
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Announcing the Chippewa River Writing Project
Working with local K-12 educators and university officials, five faculty members in the English Department at Central Michigan University submitted a grant proposal in September of 2008 for a site of the National Writing Project (NWP), the Chippewa River Writing Project (CRWP). Awarded funding from NWP in November of 2008, and supplied with matching funds…