We invite you to consider joining the WMWP Technology Team for a morning of workshops centered around the use of technology and writing across the various content areas, including math, science and social studies.
You can download the Technology Across the Curriculum flier with this link and the flier includes a registration form.
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The latest feature on one of our WMWP teachers — Astrid Lindstrom — is in the Springfield Republican newspaper. Her students worked on a unit around autobiographical writing.
Republican photo by DAVE ROBACK Students of teacher Astrid J. Lindstrom at E.N. White School in Holyoke are, seated from left, Natasha M. Pirela, Austin J. Theriault, [...]
Sharon Washington, the new executive director of the National Writing Project, paid a visit to the offices of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project this past week. Washington has taken over leadership of the NWP from Richard Sterling. She has strong connections to the Western Massachusetts region, as she was the founding director of Project [...]
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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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 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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More than a dozen representatives from the Western Massachusetts Writing Project site were at the annual convention of the National Writing Project in New York City this month, presenting on a wide range of topics and learning more about ways to improve our work in the classroom and at our site.
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WMWP Technology Liaison Kevin Hodgson delivered a keynote address to the Hudson Valley Writing Project around the topic of using the tools of the Web 2.0 world in the classroom. He was invited as part of a continuing collaborative partnership between the two sites (which worked together this summer during the Summer Institute, too).
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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 [...]
