The Springfield Republican ran a feature about this year’s Best Practices event at its online home with MassLive and one of the WMWP founders and former director, Charlie Moran, was honored this year with the Pat Hunter Award for his work in nurturing, supporting and guiding the writing project forward over the years.
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Lorraine Malone and her young writers are featured in the Springfield Republican this week.
Republican photo by MICHAEL S. GORDON
Lorraine J. Malone, center, a fourth grade teacher at Mapleshade Elementary School in East Longmeadow, poses with some of her students, from left, Rieghan B. O’Connor, Olivia E. Plante and Kendra R. Couceiro, all 9.
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The Western Massachusetts Writing Project has been fortunate to have forged a partnership with the largest daily newspaper in the Pioneer Valley — The Springfield Republican – that allows us to feature our WMWP teachers and their students every month. We are now in our third year of partnerships.
The newspaper has just launched its own [...]
The Western Massachusetts Writing Project is now in its third year of partnership with the major newspaper in our region — The Springfield Republican — and the first two features of the year have already rolled off the presses and hit the streets.
Tina Browne, of Amherst, was featured for a project around student narrative writing:
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The beautiful New England autumn weather brought fifty-five educators together at the WMWP 2007 Best Practices conference on Saturday, October 13, 2007. Presenters included Kevin Hodgson, Heather Putnam, Kerry Bean, Francis Ortiz, Lorraine Malone, Astrid Lindstrom, Molly Snyder, Karen Sumaryono, Susan Biggs, Momodou Sarr and Sherrill Willis. I had the pleasure of attending Molly Snyder’s [...]
This summer, the Western Massachusetts Writing Project has partnered up with Smith Vocational Agricultural High School to offer a Claymation Animation Movie Camp for middle school students.
WMWP Technology Liaison Kevin Hodgson and Smith Voke Curriculum Coordinator Leslie Skantz-Hodgson are teaching two, four-day sessions in which students are investigating various software tools for creating animation movies.
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