Maine Writing Project

  The 2011 Rural Sites Network Conference of the National Writing Project was held last weekend (March 11-12) in Little Rock, Arkansas, hosted by the Great Bear Writing Project. Associate Director Ken Martin represented the Maine Writing Project. The theme of the Conference was “Overcoming inequity: Creating opportunities for all rural students.” In 1957, nine […]

Judy Kaber ’97 was awarded first prize in the Larry Kramer Memorial Chapbook Contest for Rehearsing in the Dark. The contest is sponsored by Pulse Online Literary Journal. Judy was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. She dropped out of school, went to California, married, moved to […]

The Maine Writing Project will be offering the Northern Maine Institute in Teaching & Writing this summer. The institute is an opportunity to look closely at your own writing as well as student writing, talk with colleagues about ideas and issues in the teaching of writing, examine national trends and ongoing research initiatives, and share […]

Teacher, blogger, and self-described “tech-geek”, Stephen Ransom found inspiration in a NWP Digital Is post, Technology & Kindergarten: Is it Possible? posted by MWP TC Denyell Suomi ’06. Check out his cool blog EdTechTrek and hear his audio narration of Denyell’s post.

?“The Book Whisperer,” Donalyn Miller, created a lot of buzz with her keynote speech at NWP’s 2010 Annual Meeting. Her students read 50-60 books a year. How does she get them to do that? What rewards does she give? …. Or is it all about fostering a love of reading? Could reading be its own […]

The 2010 NWP Annual Meeting begins today in Orlando, Florida. The NWP Annual Meeting provides an opportunity for teachers and site leaders from Writing Project sites around the country to gather for writing, thinking, and conversation, and includes interactive workshops, information sessions, and lively discussion. All Annual Meeting sessions are conducted by Writing Project directors, […]

The Maine Writing Project is pleased to announce it is now accepting applications for our 2011 Summer Invitational Institute. To learn more or download the application visit our home page. Nominate yourself or a colleague today!

The NWP Digital IS website is a teaching-focused knowledge base exploring the art and craft of writing, the teaching and learning of writing, along with provocations that push us to think in new ways about culture and education in the digital age. NWP Digital IS . . . Art/Craft: What are we learning about the […]

This fall, Dr. Cindy Dean, co-director of MWP and writing center director at Erskine Academy; Jenn Wells, director of Mercy High School Writing Center in Burlingame, CA, and student tutors from both high school writing centers were featured on the National Writing Project’s talk radio.

Seventy students and ten advisors from established high school writing centers as well as schools interested in starting a writing center, attended the annual conference hosted by the MWP. MWP TCs and their students represented Erskine Academy, Hampden Academy, Mt. Ararat High School, Mt. View High School, Nokomis High School, and Old Town High School. […]