Who+Are+We?

= The Eastern Michigan Writing Project = **[|http://emichwp.org]** ===“I never thought that I would have been so willing to give up an entire month of my summer especially for professional development. But I am walking away from this experience with so many new ideas about who I am as a teacher, who I am as a researcher, and who I am as a writer. The fact that I even consider myself a writer has been a big step.” (Participant, 2008 Summer Institute)===

= **Who are we?** =

200 teachers in Wayne, Washtenaw, Lenawee, and Monroe Counties
= = = What do we do? =
 * Directors and Co-directors **
 * ** Doug Baker, Cathy Fleischer, John Staunton, Bill Tucker, Sarah Lorenz, and Kim Pavlock **
 * === lead summer institutes ===
 * === lead continuity and teacher research meetings ===
 * === co-author with classroom teachers (e.g. __Purposeful Writing,__ __Writing Outside Your__ __Comfort Zone__, __Language Arts Journal of Michigan)__ ===
 * === provide in-service workshops to local schools, families, and professional conferences: "Literacy Standards for Life: Common Standards and Uncommon Sense" (2012-2013) ===
 * === offer summer writing camps for teenagers ===
 * ====**offer hands-on workshops for caregivers of our students**====

= Where do we work? = = In schools from Monroe to Hamtramck to Ann Arbor to Adrian =
 * === In the Writing Project Office – Pray-Harrold 614P ===
 * === At state and national conferences: Michigan Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of English, ===
 * === National Writing Projects of Michigan meetings / writing retreats ===

===**“Prior to our participation with the Writing Project our teachers were not teaching the process of writing to their students. Many of them were not confident with writing themselves. I am pleased to say that these attitudes have changed and the result is that there is more evidence of writing in our schools and the quality of our students’ writing has improved. More importantly teachers and students are enjoying writing and sharing their published pieces with others.” (Sharalene Charns, Director of Curriculum/ Federal Programs, Hamtramck Public Schools)**===