Join us in acknowledging the accomplishments
of local writing projects and writing project
teacher consultants.
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Congratulations to two of CWP's finest for being selected as two of the five California Teachers of the Year for 2005:
- Kim Labinger of Los Angeles teaches fourth grade at Thomas A. Edison Elementary School in the city of Glendale, Los Angeles County.
- Eric Burrows of Solvang teaches Advanced Placement, U.S., and European history at San Marcos High School in the city of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County.
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California Department of Education News Release
http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr04/yr04rel95.asp
http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr04/yr04rel95.asp#labinger
http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr04/yr04rel95.asp#burrows
Check out the following articles on the
two California Teachers of the Year:
Kim Labinger:
http://gusd.net/publications/StaffOGram/ December%2015,%202004.pdf
http://www.nbc4.tv/education/3940514/detail.html
Eric Burrows:
http://www.specialheroes.com/education_heroes.html
http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/news-info/news/4-1-04.html
Congratulations to Zenaida Rosario, Teacher Consultant for the San Diego
Area Writing Project, who was named Educator of the Year by the California
Association of Bilingual Education. (click here to see CABE's press release "Announcing 2005 Award
Winners")
Congratulations to Sheridan Blau, Director of the South Coast Writing Project at UC Santa Barbara, who received the Richard A. Meade Award from the National Council of Teachers of English for his book, The Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their Readers (Heinemann, 2003). The Meade Award honors published research that investigates English/language arts teacher development.
Congratulations to the following TC's for
receiving the CATE
Classroom Excellence Award:
- Jerry Judd, from the UCI Writing Project (Click here to read Jerry's acceptance speech)
- Kelly Gallagher, from CSULB South Basin Writing Project
- Nancy Harray, from Central California Writing Project
The National Academic Advising Association
(NACADA) has selected Peter Kittle, the
2004-2005 Outstanding Advisor for California
State University, Chico, as an Outstanding
Advising Certificate of Merit recipient.
Peter is the Co-Director of the Northern
California Writing Project.
NACADA's National Awards Program for Academic
Advising honors individuals and institutions
making significant contributions to the
improvement of academic advising. Award
recipients will be presented with their
awards at a reception in Las Vegas in October
2005.
To read the complete news release, go to
http://www.csuchico.edu/pa/news/spring2005/5.09.2005.shtml.
 Reading, Writing & Rings!
Over the past two years, TC's Linda Block and Alexa Stuart and Bay Area Writing Project Director, Carol Tateishi, helped develop K-4 teaching materials with NASA partners, focused on reading, writing and science - in this instance, NASA's Cassini Mission to Saturn. The NASA website with all of the teaching lessons was nominated for a Webby Award in the science category! Check out the website: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm.
Read about the wonderful honor given to Laurie Stowell, Director of the CSU San Marcos Writing Project, in recognition of her stellar work in middle schools! Her innovative work has earned her the 2005 Wang Family Excellence Award. (click here to read the article)
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