Category: SI 2010
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Renewing Her Passion For Teaching: A Profile of Erin Busch-Grabmeyer
Nine years after completing her undergraduate degree in the English Education program in 2001, high school teacher Erin Busch-Grabmeyer still keeps Central Michigan University close to her heart. In her eighth year at St. Louis High School, just south of Mt. Pleasant, Busch-Grabmeyer continues to renew her passion for teaching. Her recent work as a participant…
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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 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…