Maine Writing Project

We’re pleased to announce the publication of Writing on the Bus: Using Athletic Team Notebooks and Journals to Advance Learning and Performance in Sports by Richard Kent, site director of the Maine Writing Project and associate professor of Literacy at the University of Maine. Available now at Amazon.com Praise for Writing on the Bus: “Kent […]

On September 30th, educators from every grade level and multiple disciplines gathered at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast, Maine for the  2011 Effective Practices Conference, hosted by the Maine Writing Project and the Southern Maine Writing Project. This special day of “teachers teaching teachers” featured new teacher-consultants of Maine’s two National Writing Project sites.  Eighteen […]

Associate Director of the Maine Writing Project Ken Martin successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, Learning to Discuss Literature Online: Where Technology Design and Instruction Intersect. Ken’s dissertation committee included Julie Cheville, Associate Professor of English Education at Illinois State University (Chair); Richard Ackerman, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at UMaine; Susan Bennett-Armistead, Assistant Professor of […]

Debra Butterfield, MWP ’03, traveled to Chicago on August 3-6 to participate in the 2011 National Writing Project Evaluation Scoring Conference.  Debra joined teacher-consultants from across the country to read and evaluate student writing from sites conducting research as part of NWP’s Local Site Research Initiative.  Over a three-day period, participants learned to use and […]

We are pleased to announce that William “Pete” St. John has been named the Maine Writing Project Jeffrey D. Wilhelm Fellow for 2011. The Wilhelm Fellow is awarded annually to a member of the Summer Institute who exemplifies devotion to teaching, collegial spirit, and scholarship. Pete’s dry wit and cordial manner with others helped to […]

The Young Authors paid a visit to the 2011 Fellows last week to share their writing. With prison dramas, haikus, ninja wolves, and six word memoirs the campers wowed the fellows with their creativity and literate use of language.   After the opening moments, campers paired up with a fellow for some sharing and feedback. […]

It may be the hazy, lazy, dog days of summer but the Maine Writing Project is fully immersed in exciting summer activities – The 2011 class of Fellows is beginning their third week of the Invitational Summer Institute. Twelve educators from diverse backgrounds – math teacher, homeschooling teacher, researcher, and even a wine store owner(!) […]

Ken Martin ’99 has been selected as the 2011 Outstanding Teaching Assistant in the UMaine College of Education and Human Development. His nomination letter stated – “…your work as a graduate teaching assistant these past two years in the College of Education and Human Development has been exemplary, contributing not only to the development of […]

  Dedicated NWP educators, including Dr. Cindy Dean and Kristina McBean C.A.S. representing the Maine Writing Project, gathered in the nation’s capital on March 31–April 1 for the 2011 National Writing Project Spring Meeting. Always an exciting event, the meeting gives writing project teachers and leaders an opportunity to share their classroom successes with members […]

  On Saturday, April 2nd, 2011, forty members of the National Writing Projects of Maine gathered at Maple Hill B&B in Hallowell for a poetry workshop with former Maine Poet Laureate, Baron Wormser. Following a fabulous luncheon, NWP teacher-consultants wrote, took walks, and chatted. Next, members from the Maine Writing Project and the Southern Maine […]