Best Practices 2007
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 presentation on ‘Screenwriting for You and Your Students.’ This was the second time I attended her presentation. Molly’s presentation reflected her training from the Summer Writing Institute 2007. Her passion to extend her knowledge through discussion, lecture and hands-on activities provided the audience with a well-balanced and informative presentation. She captured the audience’s attention as participants shared their own interests that led to basic screenwriting techniques.
In a podcasting workshop, participants recorded and posted an audio podcast that captured their Week in a Sentence. Take a listen.
Anne Herrington, WMWP’s new Site Director, celebrated lunch with attendees. She presented the Pat Hunter Award to Charlotte Lak. You can read more about the award, and about Charlotte, as well as read the wonderfully touching poem she wrote in memory of her colleague and mentor, Pat Hunter.
WMWP members were on-site and provided information on-going activities:
Stump Sprouts Writing Retreat – December 7-9, 2007. Registration deadline: November 10, 2007.
Creative Journeys – Begins: January 11, 2008. Contact Pamela Howes at pamhowes@ren.com for more information.
WMWP Invitational Summer Institute 2008 – see the WMWP for more information.
After lunch, participants attended the WMWP Summer Institute and Writing Retreat reunions or attended Leslea Newman writing workshop. Leslea is a local writer with national acclaim for her fifteen picture books. She has also written “A Letter to Harvey Milk”, “JailBait”, and “Write from the Heart.”
– written and reported by Joann Pellechia, the online newsletter editor
