Reading Time: 6 minutesOn a warm day in April, fourteen Nebraska Writing Project writers gathered at the Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha for a Writing/Riding Marathon hosted
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What’s going on with NeWP? Here’s the current projects, gatherings, and events.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn April and May, NELAC, the Nebraska English and Language Arts Council, “recognized, honored, and thanked ten legendary and outstanding English and Language Arts teachers”
Reading Time: < 1 minute(Transcript of presentation speech by Robert Brooke, NeWP Director) We recognize Mark Kalvoda, Principal at Elkhorn South High School, for his support of the inaugural
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnne Walden teaches writing in the context of her work as Gifted Facilitator at Rousseau and McPhee Elementary Schools here in Lincoln, the city where she’s taught for over two decades. For over half that time, Anne has been a major contributor to the Nebraska Writing Project. She’s served as Co-Director and on the Advisory Board. She has facilitated almost all our institutes—a Summer Institute and Embedded Institute at Papillion-La Vista, the Humanities and Literature Institutes, and our occasional Leadership Institute. Her real passion, though, is sponsoring teachers’ growth through their own writing—something she currently accomplishes through the Lincoln Writing Group which meets every two weeks almost all year long, and through the Fall Writing Retreats at Platte River State Park which she’s co-facilitated with Jeff Grinvalds for the last two years. Anne Walden helps us all grow the contexts that keep us writing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn March 3rd, 2012, the Nebraska Writing Project hosted its first Youth Writing Festival. This event occurred at Elkhorn South High School and was attended
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn a surprisingly pleasant January afternoon, writers were out in force, hopping from building to building and business to business and readily writing whatever the
Reading Time: 3 minutesMelanie Farber is an English Teacher and the English Department Chair at Lincoln North Star High School, as well as a NeWP Teacher Consultant. During
Reading Time: 2 minutesRenegade Writing Marathon The NeWP Group Launched a Renegade Writing Marathon in Downtown Disney after we found out that NWP wasn’t hosting one. Richard Louth
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom as far away as O’Neill, Columbus, and Norris educators converged in Lincoln for the Holocaust Seminar. This amazing week once again demonstrated the extraordinary
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome Nebraska teachers head for the beach to relax after the school year, yet this summer 14 new teachers discovered writing, inquiring, and strategy-sharing as
