Oregon Writing Project at Southern Oregon University

07/02/2024

Congrats to the 2024-25 Teach from Your Best Self participants! Two cohorts of intrepid educators have just completed weeklong intensive institutes with OWP teacher-consultant Jay Schroder. Wishing everyone a restorative summer...

05/13/2024

From southern Oregon to Dubai and back: OWP teacher-consultant Kelly Singleton is featured in the latest SOU English Program blog post: https://sou.edu/academics/exploring-the-versatility-of-education-with-dr-kelly-singleton/.

Read about Kelly's journey in education, from the SOU English major and MAT program, to local high schools, to Dubai, to the Dominican Republic -- earning her PhD along the way. Welcome back to the Rogue Valley, Kelly!

05/02/2024

Congrats to Kim Neiswanger, OWP teacher consultant, Teach from Your Best Self leadership star, and 2nd grade teacher at Ruch Outdoor Community School. Kim was the featured presenter in a recent webinar by WestEd for the Oregon Department of Education. You can watch the recording of the webinar and hear about Kim's AMAZING 12 years of engaging her elementary students in a book-publishing unit while meeting the standards in Oregon's Early Literacy Framework in an authentic, meaninful way. Thanks to Linda Friedrich at WestEd for organizing! (To watch, scroll down to the bottom of the page and choose "The role of writing in early literacy learning.") https://oregoninstructionalframeworks.org/webinars/

03/22/2024

OWP teacher-consultant Jay Schroder(of "Teach from Your Best Self" fame!) is teaching an online course for the National Writing Project: "Personal Writing for Growth and Healing" starts Monday, April 3. This six-week course includes 6 real-time events on consecutive Mondays beginning April 8th, 4-6pm PT. Get more information here: https://app.participate.com/course-bundles/teach-from-your-best-self-personal-writing-for-growth-and-healing/81a57256-1b29-4342-aecd-57fd31a3daf0

07/31/2023

Congratulations Jay Schroder on a successful book launch, and gratitude to all the people who helped make this event happen! The OWP is honored to have you as a teacher-consultant, and proud to partner with Teach from Your Best Self!

07/02/2023

With the launch of the TFYBS Leadership Strand, and the publication of Jay Schroder's book, "Teach from Your Best Self" has entered an exciting new era! OWP at SOU is proud to be a partner in this amazing work. Looking forward to 2023-24!

06/30/2023

Congrats to the second "Teach from your best self" cohort of 2023-24, who finished their intensive week today.

And congrats to Jay Schroder, whose book "Teach from Your Best Self" is now available to order from Routledge -- we got to celebrate the book's arrival today!

06/30/2023

06/24/2023

Congrats to the Oregon Writing Project's latest "Teach from your best self" clan, who completed the weeklong summer intensive yesterday! Looking forward to a great year!

06/22/2023

Check out this FREE summer learning opportunity from the National Writing Project (NWP)!

Click the link below to register for this awesome workshop opportunity that takes place next week:
https://tinyurl.com/TeacherStudioCreatingATextSet

06/12/2023

Congratulations Teach From Your Best Self graduates of the 2022-2023 institutes!