Reading Time: 2 minutes Set against a backdrop of Cinderella’s Castle, bright sunshine, and swaying palm trees, my experience was magical. In November 2010, I presented at the National
Reading Time: < 1 minute In November, at the National Writing Project Annual Meeting in Orlando, Nebraska Writing Project board members, Dan Boster and Jeff Grinvalds, joined Linda Christensen (Oregon
Reading Time: 2 minutes Students enrolled in Expository Writing at Valentine High School, accompanied by instructor Jan Knispel and Media Specialist Janell Stoeger, conducted a writing marathon at Centennial
Reading Time: 4 minutes Warm weather and yet another world-class potluck graced the weekend of the Nebraska Writing Project’s Third Annual Platte River Writing Retreat and Marathon on September
Reading Time: 3 minutes Teaching the Holocaust is a challenge for any teacher. How should a teacher engage students with difficult material such as hatred, prejudice, and state-sanctioned genocide?
Reading Time: 4 minutes While teachers all over the state of Nebraska spent their summertime rejuvenating after a long 2009-2010 school year, 17 new teacher consultants got busy writing,
Reading Time: 2 minutes Twelve NeWP Teacher Consultants gathered at the St. Benedict Center in Schuyler this June to support one another in the NeWP’s first Professional Writing Retreat.
Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 7, 2010, thirteen teachers from western Nebraska descended upon the campus of Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte, Nebraska for a Rural Writing
Reading Time: 2 minutes Smart phones. Computers. Televisions. facebook. Twitter. YouTube. This list goes on and chances are, if our kids aren’t at school, they’re using one of these
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is late afternoon on Wednesday. A group of twenty-three educators, representing nine Omaha area Learning Community districts gather at Educational Service Unit # 3
