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Launching MWP's 20th Year:
a Reunion/Renewal Workshop Day, 7 October 2009

Mary Ann SmithMarking the beginning of our 20th year as a site for the National Writing Project, we celebrated almost two decades of promoting student literacy through supporting teachers as writers and leaders in a workshop open to all interested teacher-consultants titled “Improving Student Writing through Teacher Leadership.”

Our special guest, Mary Ann Smith, National Writing Project Senior Scholar of Research, related her experiences in Washington, DC, working with teachers, administrators, and students from across the nation. She also spoke on the writing project’s commitment to
development of teacher professionalism and voice. To accompany Smith’s message of professional voice, we offered a panel of MWP TCs—Bev Alsleben, Paul Beverage, Liz Boeser, Jane Johnson, and Micki St. Sauver, moderated by Ann Thompson—who each shared personal journeys of leadership within the writing project.

Ann Thompson presented the video she made about the Minnesota Writing Project, Supporting teachers, improving literacy. View it here.

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