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Awards and Accolades
By: NWP Staff
Publication:
The Voice, Vol. 8, No. 1
Date: January-February 2003
Arizona
Southern Arizona Writing
Project
Lynn Cuffari, 2002 fellow, published "A Little Pizza Italy in Tucson"
in Tucson Lifestyle (October 2002).
Five teacher-consultants received awards from the Arizona English Teachers Association (AETA) "Teachers as Writers" Contest. Kinsey McKinney, 2002 fellow, won the third-place short story award for "Little One in Ceremony." Danusia Workiewycz, 2000 fellow, won the first-place short story award for "Florinda Foster." Lynn Cuffari, 2002 fellow, won the first-place nonfiction prose award for "To Write Is to Paint Is to Write." Judyth A. Willis, 2002 fellow, won for the second-place nonfiction award for "Traveling Light." Coby Goesling, 2002 fellow, won the third-place nonfiction prose award for "Bellyache." The writing project site won the AETA Teachers as Writers trophy for 2002-2003.
Arkansas
Central Arkansas Writing
Project
Lisa Mongno, co-director, had her essay "Gates and Fences" published
in A Rough Sort of Beauty: Reflections on the Natural Heritage of Arkansas,
edited by Dana Steward (University of Arkansas Press, September 2002).
Patricia Oeste, 2002 fellow, won a $2,500 award from the Plan a Dream contest sponsored by Creative Classroom to create an opera for children, written by children. Oeste is a music teacher at Ida Burns Elementary in Conway.
Northwest Arkansas
Writing Project
Samuel Totten, director, published two books, Pioneers of Genocide Studies
(Rutgers, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002) and Remembering the Past, Educating
for the Present and the Future: Personal and Pedagogical Stories of Holocaust
Educators (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002).
California
Central Los Angeles
Writing Project
Carolyn Frank, director, had "Mapping Our Stories: Teachers' Reflections
on Themselves as Writers" published in Language Arts 80 (3):19-29.
Northern California
Writing Project
Kim Jaxon, 2001 fellow, had "Creating a Connected Space: Mentoring in the
Zone of Proximal Development" published in Teaching Writing in High
School and College: Conversations and Collaborations, edited by Thomas C.
Thompson (NCTE, July 2002)
Rochelle Ramay, 1986 fellow, received the Teacher of the Year Award for Tehama County.
San Diego Area
Writing Project
Kim Douillard, co-director, had "Going Past Done: Creating Time for Reflection
in the Classroom" published in Language Arts 80 (2). Douillard and
Jan Hamilton, 1997 fellow, were keynote speakers at the Second Quebec Conference
on Teacher Research last spring. Douillard, Hamilton, and Danan McNamara, 1999
fellow, received the James Moffett Award, presented at the NCTE Convention in
Atlanta. They have also been invited to present at the Teacher as Researcher
Special Interest Group at the upcoming American Educational Research Association
Convention.
South Coast Writing
Project
Annette Cordero, 1994 fellow, was honored by the Santa Barbara Hispanic Achievement
Council for her professional work in education and for more than 20 years of
involvement in Latino politics and social justice causes in Santa Barbara County.
Maria Fránquiz, 1993 fellow, received an Excellence in Service Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fránquiz was also elected chair of the National Council of Teachers of English Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Program for 2002-2004. Fránquiz coauthored a book review of When Discourses Collide: An Ethnography of Migrant Children at Home and in School in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 15 (1): 114-117. Fránquiz also had "Caring Literacy and Identity Struggles: The Transformation of a Chicano Student" published in Making a Difference in the Lives of Bilingual/Bicultural Children, edited by Lourdes Soto (Peter Lang, April 2002). Fránquiz is now an associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Vickie Gill, 2001 fellow, had her book The Eleven Commandments of Good Teaching, Second Edition, translated into Thai (Corwin Press, April 2001).
Valerie Hobbs, 1981 fellow, published her fourth novel, Sonny's War (Frances Foster Books, September 2002).
Kathryn Howell Anders, 1999 fellow, was selected to be an educational ambassador by the US-Eurasia Awards for Excellence in Teaching Program 2002. Howell Anders traveled to the Russian Federation where she lived and worked with teachers in October.
Jon Margerum-Leys, 1994 fellow, with his coauthor Ronald W. Marx, had "Teacher Knowledge of Educational Technology: A Study of Student Teacher/Mentor Teacher Pairs" published in Journal of Educational Computing Research 26 (4): 427-462. The article will be reprinted in What Should Teachers Know about Technology, edited by Yong Zhao, in 2003 (Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing).
Susan McCormick, 1999 fellow, was presented with a $500 grant from Lee Canter and Associates at Staffordshire University, England.
Mindy Ann Mofatt, 2001 fellow, had "An Editing Strategy" published in California English.
Amada Perez, 1998 fellow, published her second book, My Diary from Here to There/Mi Diario De Aqui Hasta Alla (Children's Book Press, 2002).
Lou Spaventa, 2001 fellow, coauthored Mosaic 1 Grammar, 4th edition with Patricia Werner (McGraw-Hill, 2002).
Christine M. Steigelman, 2001 fellow, was named Site Based Teacher of the Month for founding and developing the Family Stories Writing Institute at Manzanita Elementary School in Newbury Park.
Colorado
Denver Writing Project
Douglas Joyce, 2001 fellow, had "On the Use of Metawriting to Learn
Grammar and Mechanics" published in the fall 2002 issue of The Quarterly
of the National Writing Project 24 (4).
Connecticut
Connecticut Writing
Project—Fairfield
Faye Gage, director, and Robert Wilson, co-director, edited an anthology
entitled Startle Us Anew, which contains the poetry and prose of 34 teacher-consultants
from the writing project site (Connecticut Writing Project—Fairfield, June
2002). The following fellows contributed to the anthology: Andrea Abbott, 1995;
Mark S. Ayers, 1999; Tara Bandman; 2001; Lou Barrett, 1993; Sophie Bell, 1995;
J.Calvin Burwell, 1997; Justine V. Case, 1999; Susanne M. Conklin, 1998; Jami
deSantis, 2001; Kate Dickstein, 1988; Janice Garvey, 1988; Alan Kuras, 1998;
Maryann Lennon, 1993; Penny Liu, 1986; Janet MacKenzie, 1988; Celeste Markle,
1986; Diana Martinez, 1999; Mike McAteer, 1998; William McCarthy, 1985; Linda
Miller, 1987; Sondra Olivieri, 2001; Susan Pascucci, 1985; Jack Powers, 1986;
Noreen Rogers, 1994; Ann Rousseau, 1986; Del Shortliffe 1986; Darcy Smith, 2001;
Mary Smith, 1999; Elisa M. Smul, 1999; Leona Trinin, 1987; David Walker, 1997;
Robert C. Wilson, 1987; and Jane Stewart Wollmar, 1994.
Mike McAteer, 1999 fellow, was profiled as an outstanding educator in the fall 2002 issue of Fairfield Now, the alumni magazine of Fairfield University. McAteer teaches English and journalism at New Canaan High School in New Canaan.
District of Columbia
District of Columbia Area Writing Project
Azalie Hightower, 1995 fellow, was selected to participate as an advisor
for the Maryland Public Television series "To Write"— an eight-part
television series on professional development for ninth through twelfth grade
teachers.
Florida
Jaxwrite Writing Project
Mary Baron, director, and Denise Rambach, co-director, presented two sessions
on "High School College Collaboration" at the Florida Council of Teachers
of English (FCTE) Annual Meeting in October. Baron and Rambach also had an essay
entitled "Getting Out of the Way" published in Teaching Writing
in High School and College: Conversations and Collaborations, edited by
Thomas C. Thompson (NCTE, July 2002). Rambach also was named Teacher of the
Year at First Coast High School in Jacksonville.
Shawn Kight, 2002 fellow, was elected to the board of FCTE at their annual meeting in Orlando.
Georgia
Georgia Southern Writing Project
Mildred Pate, 2001 fellow, had two chapters published in Writing for
College: Georgia English and Writing Exams, edited by Linda Arthur and Hubert
Pulley (Kendall Hunt, June 2002).
Hawai`i
Hawai`i Writing
Project
Lorey Ishihara, 1995 fellow, is a finalist for the Richard T. Farrell Teacher
of Merit Award given to a teacher for outstanding success in teaching history.
Ishihara was recognized at National History Day for her dedication to the program
and her success at improving history education. Ishihara teaches at Kahuku High
in Kahuku.
Annette Nishikawa, 1981 fellow, received the MetLife/National Association of Secondary Principals Award. Nishikawa teaches at Kapolei Middle School in Kapolei.
Roberta Zarbaugh, 1998 fellow, was named Teacher of the Year by the Hawai`i State Department of Education. Zarbaugh teaches at Kapaa Middle School in Kapaa.
The following fellows had pieces of writing published in the spring 2002 issue of Bamboo Ridge—Journal of Hawai`i Literature and Arts. Mavis Hara, 1983 fellow, published a short story, "E David." Juliet Kono Lee, 1991 fellow, also published a short story, "Anniversary." Beryl Young, 1992 fellow, published two poems, "When I Should Die" and "Inside the Red Pincushion." Hara teaches at Kapi`olani Community College, and Lee teaches at Leeward Community College.
Illinois
Illinois State Writing
Project
Janice Neuleib, director; Claire Lamonica, co-director; and Ron Fortune
had "A Teacher Exchange That Changed Teachers" published in Teaching
Writing in High School and College: Conversations and Collaborations, edited
by Thomas C. Thompson (NCTE, July 2002).
Indiana
Indiana Teachers of
Writing Writing Project
Herb Budden, co-director; Mary B. Nicolini, co-director; Stephen L. Fox,
director; and Stuart Greene had "What We Talk about When We Talk about
College Writing" published in Teaching Writing in High School and College:
Conversations and Collaborations, edited by Thomas C. Thompson (NCTE, July
2002).
Northwest Indiana
Writing Project
Tim Mathew, 1998 fellow, published his first novel, The Big Cookie (Gray
House Publishing, September 2001).
Kansas
Flint Hills Writing
Project
Todd Goodson, director, is the incoming editor of the Journal of Adolescent
and Adult Literacy, published by the International Reading Association.
Kentucky
Western Kentucky University Writing Project
Darryl Dockery, 2000 fellow, was named the Kentucky Music Educators Association's
High School Music Teacher of the Year for the third district of Kentucky. Dockery
was also nominated for the Kentucky Music Education Association's State
Music Teacher of the Year.
Patrice McCrary, 2000 fellow, was named Kentucky Teacher of the Year as well as Kentucky Elementary Teacher of the Year. McCrary was given $10,000 by Ashland Oil, Inc., and the Kentucky Department of Education will provide her with a professional development opportunity of her choosing. McCrary teaches kindergarten at Cumberland Trace Elementary School in Bowling Green.
Louisiana
Louisiana State University
Writing Project
The following awards were given at the Louisiana State University Writing
Project Convocation on June 3, 2002.
Mary Beth Anderson, 1995 fellow, received the Faye Hutchinson Award, which is given to a teacher-consultant who demonstrates commitment and dedication to writing and the teaching of writing and who is recognized as a leader in the writing project. Anderson is teacher at Mimosa Park Elementary School in St. Charles Parish.
Angela Lange, 2000 fellow, received the David England Teacher-Researcher Award, which is given to a teacher-consultant who will conduct research on some aspect of reading or writing in the classroom. Lange will study the affects of reader's workshop on high school students' reading comprehension and reading attitudes. Lange is a language arts teacher at Destrehan High School in St. Charles Parish.
Maryland
Maryland Writing Project
Barbara Bass, director, and Jennifer Goulston, 2002 fellow, were interviewed
on a local TV morning talk show on November 7, 2002, about the effect of the
Harry Potter series on children's reading and writing.
Massachusetts
Central Massachusetts Writing Project
Susan Roney-O'Brien, 2002 fellow, was selected the New England Association
of Teachers of English (NEATE) Poet of the Year on October 18, 2002. Roney-O'Brien
entered five poems; "At Prayer," "Visit," "September
13," "Suspension," and "Hands," which were susbequently
published in Poetry by the Finalists (NEATE, 2002).
Western Massachusetts
Writing Project
Diana Callahan, co-director; Charles Moran, director; Mary-Ann DeVita Palmieri
and Bruce M. Penniman, co-directors, had "Crossing Levels: The Dynamics
of K-16 Teachers' Collaboration" published in Teaching Writing
in High School and College: Conversations and Collaborations, edited by
Thomas C. Thompson (NCTE, July 2002).
Michigan
Eastern Michigan Writing
Project
Rebecca Sipe, co-director, coauthored Strategies for Writers, a text
series for grades K-8 (Zaner-Bloser, 2003).
Red Cedar Writing
Project
Diana Mitchell, co-director, published Children's Literature: An
Invitation to the World (Allyn Bacon Longman, November 2002).
Alyssa Rickard, 2000 fellow, had "Experiencing the Internship from the Inside: An Intern's Perspective" published in Forging Alliances in Community and Thought (Research in Professional School Development), edited by Irma N. Guadarrama (Information Age Publishing, July 2002).
Third Coast Writing
Project
Ellen Brinkley, director, received the Charles Carpenter Fries Award at
the Michigan Council of Teachers of English in October. The award recognizes
long and faithful service to the profession of English teaching, distinguished
leadership in the community at the state and national level, inspirational qualities
for students and colleagues, originality, and academic superiority.
Mississippi
MSU Writing/Thinking Project
Linda Kilian, 2002 fellow, wrote a play entitled "Aaronville Dawning,"
which will premiere January 22-March 2, 2003 as part of the Vesta Festival of
the Southern Writers' Project. The one-woman play takes the audience to
a small town in Mississippi. While preparing funeral food for Beasley, her friend
of more than 50 years, Lemy Babin Caldwell dishes the dirt on the sinners and
the saints of Aaronville while keeping her own secret. Kilian teaches in the
Jackson Public School District.
New York
Western New York Writing Project
Suzanne Borowicz, 1998 fellow, had her poem "Shaman" published in
The Shadows Imprint: Poetic Reflections on Death, edited by Kevin McCabe
and Karen Lewis (Blarney Stone Books, November 2002).
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Writing
and Literature Project
Mary Buckelew, associate director; Judy Jester and Diane Dougherty, co-directors,
presented a workshop entitled "Visualizing Our World: Art and the Language
Arts" at the National Council of Teachers of English 2002 Conference in
Atlanta.
Rita DiCarne, 2000 fellow, had "Capturing the Power of Poetry" published in the January-February 2002 issue of Today's Catholic Teacher Magazine 35 (4).
Lynne Dorfman, co-director, and Rose Cappelli, 1996 fellow, presented a workshop entitled "Practical Mini-Lessons for the Domains of Writing K-6" at the Keystone State Reading Association Conference in October.
Linda Kerschner, 1998 fellow, had "Teaching World Literature: Preparing Global Citizens" published in the May 2002 issue of English Journal.
Sue Mowery, 1989 fellow, presented the 2002 Literacy Award at the Keystone State Reading Association Conference in October. This annual award honors the person or organization active in promoting literacy in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia
Writing Project
Annette Sample, 1997 fellow, was recognized in Who's Who Among America's
Teachers, 7th Edition, 2002, Volume II (Educational Communications, October
2002). Sample serves as a facilitator for many of the writing project site's
continuity and inservice programs.
South Carolina
Swamp Fox Writing
Project
Gail Hayes, 1999 fellow, was named Teacher of the Year for South Florence
High School and Florence County District One. Hayes is also being considered
for state teacher of the year.
South Dakota
Dakota Writing Project
Denise Nelson, 1999 fellow, was a featured artist at the 2002 Sidewalk Arts
Festival in Sioux Falls. Nelson teaches at Memorial Middle School in Sioux Falls.
Tennessee
West Tennessee Writing Project
Paula Cox, associate director, was one of two Tennessee recipients of the
Milken Educator Award for 2002. Cox was also named K-4 Teacher of the Year for
Northwest Tennessee. Cox is now a fifth grade teacher at Briarwood School in
Camden.
Ginny Franklin, 2002 fellow, was named Teacher of the Year at South Fulton Elementary in South Fulton.
Betty Hicks, 2000 fellow, was named Teacher of the Year at Finley School in Finley, where she teaches fifth grade.
Washington
Puget Sound Writing Project
Susan Starbuck, 1998 fellow, read from her new book, Hazel Wolf: Fighting
the Establishment, at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Company (University
of Washington Press, July 2002). This book is a biography about the nationally
known environmentalist, active in social causes until her death at the age of
101.
John Webster, director, received the Department of English Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of Washington, and presented on "The Most Important Thing(s) I Teach" at a forum for alumni and friends of the department in October 2002.