Category: Teacher Spotlight
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New Book by CRWP Teacher and Director Released
Chippewa River Writing Project teacher consultant, Jeremy Hyler, and Director Troy Hicks release a new book this week from Routledge — Create, Compose, Connect! Reading, Writing, and Learning with Digital Tools. The book’s description, from the Routledge website, states: Find out how to incorporate digital tools into your English language arts class to improve students’ reading,…
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CRWP Teacher “Writes with Wings” at ALA Annual Conference
The following letter, written by Ashley (Patton) Smolinski, CRWP 2009, demonstrates the lasting power of participating in an invitational summer institute. Years after graduating from the first class of the Chippewa River Writing Project, I am still a writer. Those words, ‘I’m a Writer’, came back to me most recently at the American Library Association (ALA)…
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Seven CRWP Teachers Present at National Conferences
Most teachers attend a conference for professional development, many choose to go to local events, a few go to national, and even fewer present at a national level… Chippewa River Writing Project is present at all levels. Since the inception of Chippewa River Writing Project (CRWP) in 2009, we have been involved at a national…
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CRWP Teacher Explores Multigenre/Multimedia Writing
Writing with cell phones and computers. Writing about bodily functions and war. Writing multigenre digital media projects. This is how Fulton Middle School language arts teacher Jeremy Hyler gets 7th and 8th grade boys to enjoy reading and writing in his classroom. According to Hyler, successfully motivating boys to write means giving them plenty of…
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Young Writers Find New Ways to Grow at the Chippewa River Writing Camp 2011
At a glance, it may seem like just another classroom at Central Michigan University. A writer stands before an audience of half a dozen people, calmly walking her audience through a software that allows her to upload one of her poems onto her personal wiki. She smiles as she presses a button, and a digitally…