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The MBWP will be presenting on April 11 at 2:30 pm at the Manitoba Reading Association's Adolescent Literacy Summit (Winnipeg, MB). Teachers from the 2018 Summer Writing Institute (and prior institutes) will be presenting the work they are doing in their schools and classrooms. Check out the amazing conference the MRA has planned: http://mrasummit.weebly.com/
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We had a wonderful time with an enthusiastic group of hikers and writers at the Manitoba Association of Teachers of English conference on Friday, October 19. Together, we discussed the power of writing in place and then went on a 2 km hike around River East Collegiate, the site of the conference. We stopped 5 times to take photos and write 5 word poems, as well as taking "walking photos" along the way. We shared our writing with one another when we returned, creating a collective collage of our images and 5-word poems in Padlet. MBWP presenters shared the work they are doing in their schools and classrooms with place-based writing, and we invited participants to check out our resource, "A Collection of Promising Practices to Provoke the Teaching of Writing" published by MBWP Summer Writing Institute 2018 participants. It was a great session; thank you to MATE for inviting us and to all who joined us!
In late Spring 2018, the Manitoba Writing Project received exciting news that we have become an Associated International Site of the National Writing Project. For more information, please see the NWP website at www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/findasite/International.csp. There are currently only five other Associated International Sites of the NWP: Hong Kong; Malta; Trondheim, Norway; Singapore; and the Dominican Republic. We are delighted to be the first Canadian Associated International Site and look forward to the rich, reciprocal relationship we will continue to build with the National Writing Project. We look forward to welcoming the NWP to Manitoba in an official launching event in 2018-2019--more details and information about how to get involved will be coming to this site soon.Thank you to all those who attended our session at the Adolescent Literacy Summit. If you are interested in the Writing G/Rounds protocol, or more information about our work, please feel free to contact [email protected]
We'll be presenting at the 4th Annual Adolescent Literacy Summit at Victoria Inn Hotel & Convention Centre. Our thanks to the Manitoba Reading Association for organizing what is sure to be an amazing conference. We look forward to seeing you there!
Students are more motivated to write when it matters: when they have choice, when their writing is relevant to their everyday lives, when they have real audiences, and when they feel their writing can make a difference. This session will feature a panel of teachers who will take us into their classrooms and into the writing projects that have mattered to their students. Together we’ll explore why we write: how writing can expand students’ understanding of and relationships with people, places, artifacts, concepts and issues that matter. We’ll also explore how we teach writing: how writing connects to reading, inquiry, social justice and interdisciplinary studies and the interests students have in multimodal writing and publication. The session will also include time for conversations about how we can continue to develop our own identities as writers and writing teachers, reflecting on some of the challenges and insights arising from our work. Writing is increasingly important in our global, 21st C world. Writing is a powerful way for people to have their voices heard, for individuals and groups to advocate for change, and to create forums for developing understanding and respect for one another and our experiences.
This 3-credit hour course is open to all—“writers” and “non-writers” alike, in K-12 and postsecondary contexts, as well as community-based and other learning spaces. The course is designed to be experiential, with opportunities to participate in writing workshops and writing groups. Participants will learn current approaches to teaching writing, design a writing workshop, explore digital and multimodal forms of writing, and develop their skills as writers and teachers of writing. Critical literacy will be a focus, with the goal of better understanding the relationship of writing to power and agency: how writing can advocate for social justice and human rights and how writing, as a form of expression, functions as a human right. The course will be offered in a blended format, with online learning activities (via UM Learn) as well as three writing workshops: October 1: Writing Marathon at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights* October 22: Place-Based Multimodal Writing Workshop at The Forks December 10: Writing Workshop Poster Sessions & Authors’ Circle: A Celebration of Writers & Writing Participants may register for the course for credit at the 5000-level (5220) or the 7000-level (7340). *Admission costs will apply. For more information, please contact Dr. Michelle Honeyford ([email protected]). MTS awarded an $800 Reflective Professional Practice Grant to MBWP teachers. The Writing G/rounds Project
will provide opportunities for MBWP teachers to come together to examine student work. Building on the writing projects teachers have developed and implemented, the grant supports teachers' ongoing efforts to expand and improve their teaching of writing by helping students engage deeply, critically, and passionately in writing about issues important to their lives. The project has three goals: 1) To become more effective teachers of writing by examining student work. 2) To engage in reading and discussing professional literature. 3) To present at two professional conferences and collaborate on a publication. Frontier School Division English Language Arts teachers gathered in Winnipeg for a 2-day writing workshop in April on "Why Does Writing Matter? Social Justice, Human Rights, and Being Writers." The first day began with a Writing Marathon at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The “writing marathon” has a long and rich tradition in The National Writing Project (nwp.org), designed to engage groups of teachers in a day of exploring a place through writing and sharing their writing with one another. As a site for a Writing Marathon, the CMHR prompted powerful writing--explorations of injustice, trauma, and pain as well as resiliency and hope. On the second day, we explored ideas related to place-based writing at the Forks. We began with a "spirit reading" in the Oodena Celebration Circle, and spent an invigorating morning "writing in place" through writing and digital photography. The afternoon was dedicated to "workshopping" our writing in writing groups, ending with a collaboratively written digital story and our own celebration circles--sharing our writing and affirming our identities as writers with one another.
Thank you to Frontier School Division (English Language Arts) for the invitation to lead this workshop and for your investment in teachers as writers and teachers of writing. --Michelle Honeyford Manitoba Association of Teachers of English and Canadian Council of Teachers of English SAGE 2015 Conference Event West Kildonan Collegiate, 101 Ridgecrest Avenue (off Main St.) KEYNOTE: Reconciling, Renewing, and Reimagining: The Future of English Language Arts and Literacy: Dr. Michelle Honeyford Michelle Honeyford is an Assistant Professor in Language and Literacy in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. Her research and teaching interests focus on understanding how learning is mediated by students’ cultural identities and how ways of knowing and learning in schools can be expanded to include and represent diverse youth more effectively, particularly through writing, multiliteracies, and critical inquiry. Dr. Honeyford is Co-Director of the Manitoba Writing Project, a professional network for educators and educational partners interested in writing and teaching writing for/as social justice and human rights.She also leads the Faculty’s CanU program, a university-based afterschool program engaging teacher candidates and faculty in collaboratively designing innovative, affinity-based learning spaces for middle school students. Session C7: Writing Together: The Manitoba Writing Project (EY/MY/SY) (Two Hours) Whether you’re new to writing workshop or an experienced writing workshop teacher, we invite you to come and join us. We’ll offer a number of different kinds of writing experiences as we write and workshop our writing in small groups, modeling processes and tools you can use in your classroom. We’ll explore and share the writing we’re doing with our students (K-university) and discuss our approaches to integrating technology, writing conferences, and meaningful feedback and assessment. We’ll conclude with an opportunity to generate new ideas and possibilities for writing together. Take a look at the Spring, 2015 issue of Education Manitoba which features an article on the MBWP on page 12! |
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