Category: SI 2009
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Celebrating 15 Years of CRWP: The 2009 Summer Institute
Fifteen years ago, the CRWP was a new site of the National Writing Project and hosted its first summer institute at CMU. Troy Hicks, Elizabeth Brockman, and Penny Lou Lew led the institute. The 13 participants from the summer of 2009 stayed involved for years and some are still on our leadership team today!
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Chippewa River Writing Project Teacher Spotlight: Debbi Meister
This past holiday season brought even more to celebrate this year for Chippewa River Writing Project team member Debbi Meister. Meister, a teacher at Fellowship Baptist Academy in Carson City and alum of the CRWP 2009 Summer Institute, recently completed her master’s degree program at Central Michigan University. CRWP team members joined Meister in the celebration during their annual…
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CRWP Teachers Share Ideas at Fall Conferences
It has been a busy fall for CRWP Teacher Consultants, as they have been presenting their classroom research at conferences around the state. From inspiring students to write their own novels, to engaging them with Shakespeare through music and other media, CRWP teacher consultants have been sharing their innovative teaching practices with audiences of their peers.…
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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 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…