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Application Due Date: February 28, 2012

When: June 11- June 29

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What Is Digital Writing and Why Does It Matter?

What Is Digital Writing and Why Does It Matter? New Book Defines Digital Literacy, Offers Guidance for Educators and Policymakers 

 BERKELEY, CA, October 25, 2010 — In today's world of texting, tweeting, blogging, and social networking, young people are writing more than ever.

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Twenty Five Denver Area Teachers Gather for Fiction Workshop with Author, Jennifer Davis

On Saturday, February 26th the Denver Writing Project hosted its spring writing retreat--a fiction workshop with author, Jennifer Davis. During the retreat, more than 25 teachers participated in exercises on point of view and character development and gained teaching ideas to take back to their K-16 classrooms.

Using odd and sensational news stories as inspiration, retreat participants wrote through several levels of character development and then shared their work with other participants.

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Memoirist, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, to present Creative Nonfiction Workshop at 2011 Summer Institute

Shadowbox ImageHarrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of the Bakeless Literary Award finalist, Descanso For My Father: A Life In Fragments, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press “American Lives” series.

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Denver Writing Project awarded Gates Foundation grant to develop curricula for local teachers

Teams of teachers from the Denver Writing Project here at the University of Colorado Denver and the Northern Colorado Writing Project at Colorado State University have been entrusted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create tools for teachers in grades 6-12 across all content areas and cultivate high-quality professional development opportunities in which to share these tools.

Over the next two years, our own Denver Writing Project will create curricula models for classroom teachers in writing instruction that will support students to achieve the outcomes of the newly st

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Imagine spending three weeks completely immersed in the teaching of writing and your own development as a writer. Put yourself into an institute classroom one sunny morning, where you find your teacher is one of the metro area’s best writing teachers demonstrating her most successful approach to teaching writing. Then, over lunch, you talk with a fellow teacher and an institute consultant about new approaches to integrating state standards with how you teach writing to your students.

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