Lord Botetourt English teacher Sara Zeek has been accepted into the National Writing Project that will be held at Virginia Tech this summer from June 22 through July 17. The writing project strives to help teachers and educators teach better writing skills to students as a result of their participation in the Project. Zeek has been recognized by the school board as one the county's National Board Certified teachers, has a MALS degree from Hollins University, is an adjunct faculty member at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College and is the editor of "Needle's Eye," the Virginia Association of Teachers of English (VATE) newsletter. She is married with two grown children, Thomas and Jenny and lives in Clifton Forge. She has one granddaughter, Merridith, too. Zeek is also the senior class sp...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Genevieve Jeong Bennett of National Writing Project, +1- 510-643-2072, gbennett@nwp.org; or Michelle White, +1-202-349-2311, mwhite@wpllc.net, for National Writing Project
Jaci Wells has lived in Evansville less than a year, but already she's taken on an additional role aimed at advancing the English skills of Tri-Staters. Wells moved to Evansville as the assistant director of composition at the University of Southern Indiana, but as of this month, she added a new position to her resume: director of the River Bend Writing Project (RBWP). The local site is an offshoot of the National Writing Project's program, and together they share a mission to improve literacy skills by bringing together teachers from across the curriculum to share ideas, theories and strategies for teaching writing. If that sounds like a big undertaking, it is.
Recent cuts to the 2011 federal budget have ended funding for the National Writing Project, an organization I care about deeply. (Full disclosure: For several years it has provided me a part-time job, something most teachers need.) The National Writing Project received $27 million in 2010 and distributed much of it to more than 200 writing project sites around the country in operating grants of under $50,000.
National Writing Project and the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center Host Briefing on Classroom Technologies WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Capitol Hill today, three teachers recognized for their innovative use of classroom technology shared their perspectives on the tremendous benefits of using digital media tools to teach writing. Sponsored by the National Writing Project (NWP) and the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, the briefing included two teachers featured in Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age, a report released this summer by the two organizations and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDKI).
WEST MILFORD -- Kristen Kelly learned in her fifth-grade class last week what some novelists take years to master: Create a character, and the story will follow. Her discovery came thanks to a style of teaching her instructor, Phyllis Blau, learned through the National Writing Project. Blau is in her second year of attending workshops given by the NWP.
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A national program that helps teachers become better writers - and is shown to improve their students' writing skills - has lost its federal funding, a development that could impact thousands of students across West Virginia and millions across the country. Earlier this month, a compromise between Congress and the Obama administration kept the federal government running, but cut $4 billion in funding and slashed the budgets of several programs, including the National Writing Project.
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