This past weekend 17 OWP Teacher Consultants gathered at Missouri State University for a Visioning Retreat. As part of the retreat, TC's were asked to write the mission of the OWP. This mission will guide decision making and action as the site continues to grow in teacher capacity. Alexa Sandmann, Director of the Kent State WP, led us in writing activities and discussion that focused on key words and phrases of the work of the site, and as a result, one of the following four mission statement

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Finishing our first full year as a recognized site of the National Writing Project, the OWP sent 10 TC's to the annual meeting in Philadelpia this past week. Aside from attending sessions on podcasting, the new digital media, summer institute facilitating, teacher inquiry, shared leadership and many other effective topics, TC's listened to Billy Collins read poetry at the general session on Friday.

TC and Tech Liason Larry Neuberger, in collaboration with other writing project site leaders, pre… Continue

Finishing our first full year as a recognized site of the National Writing Project, the OWP sent 10 TC's to the annual meeting in Philadelpia this past week. Aside from attending sessions on podcasting, the new digital media, summer institute facilitating, teacher inquiry, shared leadership and many other effective topics, TC's listened to Billy Collins read poetry at the general session on Friday.

TC and Tech Liason Larry Neuberger, in collaboration with other writing project site leaders, pre… Continue

Teachers, there's never been a better time to celebrate the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe. 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of his birth, and October the 7th the day Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849. What could be more fun than a Poe Party?

A student asked me "isn't it creepy to celebrate Poe's death-day?" It is, & I have a feeling Poe would love it. For the last three weeks in my English and Reading classes the students have read, been read to, researched, done illustrations and othe… Continue

Okay everyone, my first presentation is out of the way, and I can at last truly and accurately say, "I am a teacher consultant of the Ozarks Writing Project."