Chippewa River Writing Project
A site of the National Writing Project at Central Michigan University
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 […]
Continue ReadingAs 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 […]
Continue ReadingAn 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 […]
Continue ReadingParticipants 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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