This page is to recognize PLWP TCs.
Cayetana, a 2008 SI fellow, has her introductory writing piece published on the Smithsonian Photography web site. There is an article on the NWP web site about this project. http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2773 To see Cayetana's piece go to http://click.si.edu/Contributors.aspx Scroll down to find her name. As you will see she is among a very talented group. This group's photos and essays can also be found on www.flickr.com.

Mary Lee Meyer and Kathy Miller are two of PLWP's own who are featured in a book Write What You See by Hank Kellner. This book discusses using photos as writing prompts. It is due out in April. Mary's blog http://writingwithtechnology.edublogs.org has been referenced on Kellner's blog and in some of the articles he has written for three other web sites about using photos as writing prompts.

Kudos to Heidi Mick and to Prairie Lands for being featured on the OPENING page of the NWP’s website (www.nwp.org) since December 15, 2008, in a “NWP in Action” article, “Missouri Teachers Create ‘TechKnowFiles’—Best Practices in Using Technology to Teach Writing.” The web article at http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2762 describes how we developed our ‘Files” and links to the teaching-with-technology online units on our PLWP site which were developed by Heidi (podcasts), Stacia Studer (blogs), Mary Lee Meyer (publishing an “I am” poem in PowerPoint), Rebecca Dierking (Word’s revising tool) Valorie Stokes (using web resources with graphic novels), and Amy Miller (wikis).
Kudos to Pam Johnston, Tori Grable, Christie Hofmeister, Sandra Pettit, Amanda Moyers, Joe Marmaud, Michelle O’Connor, Jennifer Vermillion, Patricia Brost, Amy Miller, Carma Burtnett, Erin Walker, Tom Pankiewicz, Debbie Schwebach, and Meredith Katchen for joining me and 15 other area teachers in participating in the national and Missouri Scholastic Writing Contest Preliminary Judging Sessions held in Blum Union on January 10 and/or 17. In two marathon Saturdays, we scored over 3000 At-Large and 193 Missouri Region personal essays, poems, senior portfolios, science fiction, short stories, short-short stories, dramatic scripts, journalism, and humor pieces submitted by middle- and high-school students from throughout the United States, including those from sixty different schools in Missouri. This was the first year that Missouri Region sessions and the sixth year that the At-Large scoring sessions have been held at MWSU—sponsored by Prairie Lands Writing Project with funding for scorers provided by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.
Kudos to Deb Schwebach and to Erin Walker for their leadership roles as associate coordinator and contest submissions coordinator for our Missouri Writing Region for the 2009 Missouri Writing Awards Contest. PLWP is the major sponsor of the Affiliate Region with the Missouri Writing Projects Network and the Missouri Association of Teachers of English. Missouri’s winning entries were selected from among the top entries scored at Western in a judging round on January 24 at the University of Missouri – Columbia. Winners and their teachers will be recognized at this year’s Write to Learn Conference where selections of students’ winning pieces will be prominently displayed. Kudos to Kelly Lock, Amanda Moyers, and Janet Jelavich for having students who are Scholastic Writing Awards Contest winners. (See attached list of winners, teachers, schools, categories.)
Kudos to Kathy Miller and Mary Lee Meyer whose teaching-writing-using-photos assignments are included in Hank Kellner’s Write what You See (Cottonwood press, 2009). Check out our PLWP copy of Kellner’s book or CD and read Kathy’s and Mary Lee’s assignments on p. 115.
Kudos to Kathy Miller, Stacia Studer, Heidi Mick, Terri McAvoy, and Debbie Schwebach for successfully conducting PLWP inservices in January (St. Joseph Literacy Academy and Excelsior Springs Writing Academy regroup meetings and Excelsior Springs Middle School Because Writing Matters Book Study).
Kudos to Mary Lee Meyer for creating a Kudos page on our wiki and for encouraging you to add yours to http://plwp.wetpaint.com/page/Kudos.
Kudos to Amy Miller and Stefanie Lyle for co-chairing this year's event; host Kyla Ward; presenters Meg Thompson, Dawn Terrick, Debbie Schwebach, Bill Church, Dana Andrews, Tina Janc, Vickey Meyer, Mike Cadden, Amy Miller, and Bob Bergland; workshop organizer Tom Pankiewicz; picture takers Mike Epperson and Mary Lee Meyer; event organizer Josie Clark; Pre-Service teachers and gofers Luke Akers, Jocelyn Clubine, Amanda Hash, Lisa Crawford, Denise Price, Amanda Rawlings, Katie Shobe, Holly Richardson, and Aimee Whitacre; and especially, teachers Vicky Bryan, Brrandon Haskey, Vickey Meyer, Sara Capra, Dustin Sollars, Mike Epperson, Debbie Schwebach, Emily Garrett, Tori Grable, K'lea Snyder, Melisa Harper, Ron Lathrop, Heidi Mick, James Miscavish, Ken Girard, Deb Moore, Kathryn Nichols, Sandy Veale, Joy Sherard, and Jill Steinmetz--for bringing their students!