Pittsburgh and back
Attending a national meeting broadens, strengthens, and rejuvenates thinking. I mostly attended National Writing Project sessions from which I brought back useful ideas to get more inservice work strategically planned for our site. Those of you wanting to help out with this, please let me know.
One of the highlights was the reception for Dr. Ben Nelms. At the end of the presentation part of the evening, Dr. Nelms shared our University of Missouri genealogy. (Maybe he can share a written copy of this with all of us). Our part of this “family tree” stretches back through excellent teachers, writers, and thinkers. It stretches out, as well, as I looked around the room at the people from coast-to-coast who are part of that “tree.”
From Richard Sterling’s NWP address, we learned that technology and ELL are crucial areas for our work. If you visit the Inverness website (http://www.inverness-research.org/nwp_ppt.html), you will see the amazing numerical picture of the work of NWP. Or just spend time at the NWP site (writingproject.org) to see more of the NWP projects.
One of the highlights was the reception for Dr. Ben Nelms. At the end of the presentation part of the evening, Dr. Nelms shared our University of Missouri genealogy. (Maybe he can share a written copy of this with all of us). Our part of this “family tree” stretches back through excellent teachers, writers, and thinkers. It stretches out, as well, as I looked around the room at the people from coast-to-coast who are part of that “tree.”
From Richard Sterling’s NWP address, we learned that technology and ELL are crucial areas for our work. If you visit the Inverness website (http://www.inverness-research.org/nwp_ppt.html), you will see the amazing numerical picture of the work of NWP. Or just spend time at the NWP site (writingproject.org) to see more of the NWP projects.
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