Category: Summer Institute
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CRWP Teacher Livens up the Classroom with Bitstrips Comics
Shannon Powell, CRWP 2009, and teacher at Central Montcalm Middle School has found a way to breathe new life into classroom projects using a creative technology called Bitstrips for Schools. The online software acts as an innovative and user-friendly program that allows students to develop and publish their own unique webcomics. For Powell, Bitstrips offers students the…
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CRWP Celebrates Its Second Annual Summer Institute
Friday, July 9th, 2010 marked the completion of another successful Summer Institute for the Chippewa River Writing Project, including its sixteen newest teacher consultants. For four weeks beginning June 14th, participants and leadership team members met daily for writing and responding, reading and research, fun and collegiality. Both as teachers and writers, the experience was a period of…
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CRWP Announces 2010 Teacher Participants
Announcing the Chippewa River Writing Project’s 2010 Invitational Summer Institute Participants On Monday, May 10, 2010, sixteen teachers — representing both local and out-of-state elementary, middle, and high schools as well as Central Michigan and Saginaw Valley universities — will meet at CMU’s Educational Services building to kick off our second annual Chippewa River Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute. As a site of…
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CRWP Director Featured on NWP’s BlogTalkRadio
As one of three featured guests on the February 11, 2010, episode of the National Writing Project’s periodic web-based radio show, BlogTalkRadio, CRWP Director Troy Hicks talked about the ways in which writing project sites choose readings for their summer institute participants. NWP BlogTalkRadio (2-11-10) Hicks focused his attention on how the CRWP Leadership Team…
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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…