WMWP Technology Liaison Kevin Hodgson is publishing a weekly webcomic through the Newspapers in Education site of MassLive (home to The Springfield Republican) that looks at the digital divide between kids and adults, and technology in the classroom. The webcomic is called Boolean Squared and is designed to poke fun at teaching in this technological [...]
One suggestion that came forth to the WMWP Executive Board from the members of Project Outreach is the idea of everyone on the leadership board reading a shared book so that the site would begin to have a shared language of education and diversity and social justice/awareness.
The leadership team decided on a book called From [...]
The WMWP Executive Board voted this week to elect two new co-directors to fill in an upcoming vacancy as Inservice Co-Director Sara Palmer prepares to move to Pennsylvania and Continuity Co-Director Tina Brown ends her three-year term.
The two new WMWP leaders are:
Tracy Walker as the new In-Service Co-Director. Tracy participated in the Oregon Writing Project’s [...]
The first-ever Massachusetts Writing Project Conference took place this past weekend in Worcester and featured three rounds of interesting and exciting workshops from Teacher-Consultants from all four MWP sites (Western Mass, Central Mass, Boston and Buzzards Bay).
Workshops included:
ESL instruction
Technology integration
Writing across the curriculum
Family writing nights
There were more than 100 people attending the all-day event and [...]
Check out what the Massachusetts Writing Project teachers said about their visit to the NWP Spring Meeting.
Recently, I traveled to Washington, D.C. with members of the Massachusetts Writing Project to visit our state representatives and senators. We were there to tell our story about using writing to improve learning in the classroom. We [...]
