In this episode of Write Answers, we talk to Nicole Stellon O’Donnell (Heinemann Fellow, Teacher, Author, Poet, Instructional Coach) about writing process and teaching from a place of defiance. https://nicolestellon.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Nicole-Stellon-ODonnell/e/B007PVI6JO%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college + CEU credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project + Programming: http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us here: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram @owpmu Find Today’s Guest on Twitter: @SteamLaundry Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu

In this episode, we chat with co-director of the Ohio Writing Project, Beth Rimer about all things OWP! As we dig into OWP’s summer offerings, we cover a wide range of topics...from OWP’s famous 4-week workshop to place-based writing--and even grammar! Link to OWP's Summer Offerings: www.smore.com/52hsq The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college + CEU credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project + Programming: miamioh.edu/cas/academics/depar…io-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us here: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram @owpmu “Retriever” by Sara L. Godwin There are spaces within me I keep blank. Thoughts I push out. Ideas my right and left brain use to play keep-away from my consciousness. I rearrange the furniture to cover up spots of recollection. I hang pictures to hide events. I dig holes, deep and dark, to bury, to forget. But memory is a dog. It hunts what I hide, plays fetch, lays at my feet all things I secret away, like an offering. Then he happily waits, tail wagging, to start the game all over again. A short story of Sara’s, “Afternoon Tea,” can be found in the September 2020 issue of www.brilliantflashfiction.com Submit a poem to be featured on a future episode: [email protected] Do you have an share-worthy teaching practice? Do you know someone else who fits the bill? Email Noah at the address above--we are always looking for great educators to interview for the podcast. Find Beth on Twitter: @BethRimer Find Sara Godwin (today’s contributing poet) on Twitter: @SGodwinDP Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu

Child-centered! Inquiry-based! Progressive! In this episode of Writer Answers, we explore Reggio-based teaching practices with Elizabeth Farris! The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college + CEU credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project + Programming: http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us here: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram @owpmu “Gone Too Soon” by Heidi Wehrmann LaMarr I look at her and think of you. Flourishing in the moment, Surrounded by an ocean of sky and clouds. Strength beyond size. Wisdom beyond years. She smiles, Innocent and bright. You smile, Secrets hidden behind your eyes sadness, loneliness, emptiness. I look at her and wonder if she will make a similar choice and be, before we know, without a warning, gone too soon. In memory of L.J., N.W., D.R., J.E., B.B. and all the others who were gone too soon. Submit a poem to be featured on a future episode: [email protected] Do you have an share-worthy teaching practice? Do you know someone else who fits the bill? Email Noah at the address above--we are always looking for great educators to interview for the podcast. Find Elizabeth Farris on Twitter: @createplayteach Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu

In this episode, we talk to Sara Godwin about how she’s approached student choice using Liz Prather’s Project-based Writing process. Pandemic teaching has been nothing short of overwhelming, but Sara leveraged the uncertainty of these times into opportunities to experiment with her teaching practice--with great success! The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college + CEU credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project + Programming: http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us here: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram @owpmu Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu

In this episode of Writer Answers, we talk to Kelly Taylor about shifting away from bells and whistles to focus on simple, high impact teaching practices. The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college + CEU credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project: http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram: @owpmu Find Kelly Taylor on Twitter: @taylorkelly4601 Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu

In this episode of Writer Answers, we talk to Celine Thomas about how she decided to be the change she wished to see in her world by creating a popular and meaningful elective class at her high school...completely from scratch! The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college + CEU credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project + Programming: http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us here: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram @owpmu “Moth Silver Shimmer” by Tim Reisert The night we packed the car a moth fluttered around the bright kitchen, had slipped inside before the screendoor flap. I followed in chase with open but slow palms and when I swooped underneath it and closed my hand, felt its wings against my fingers now held tight not tight enough for it flew again, up by the cupboards and the fruit bowl, its flight crooked, its moth silver shimmer on my hand. Submit a poem to be featured on a future episode: [email protected] Do you have an share-worthy teaching practice? Do you know someone else who fits the bill? Email Noah at the address above--we are always looking for great educators to interview for the podcast. Find Celine Thomas on Twitter: @Ms_Thomas22 Follow Celine Thomas on Instagram: @miss_thomas22 Find Tim Reisert on Twitter: @tdreisert Follow Tim Reisert on Instagram: @timreisert Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu

In this episode of Writer Answers, we talk to Lindsay Bruggeman about how she builds community whether teaching in person, virtually, or both! Our wide reaching conversation includes big ideas as well as practical teaching strategies that you can use in your own classroom to enhance connectivity with--and between--your students. Find Lindsay Bruggeman on Twitter: @MrsBruggemanLHS The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project + Programming: http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us here: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram @owpmu Submit a poem to be featured on a future episode: [email protected] Do you have an share-worthy teaching practice? Do you know someone else who fits the bill? Email Noah at the address above--we are always looking for great educators to interview for the podcast. Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find Beth on Twitter: @BethRimer Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu

In this episode of Writer Answers, we talk to Ivana Farrar about how she has used culturally responsive teaching practices with great success during this whirlwind year of teaching. Ivana also has a nifty lesson idea that involves the music of J. Cole! The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project + Programming: http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us here: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram @owpmu Submit a poem to be featured on a future episode: [email protected] Do you have an share-worthy teaching practice? Do you know someone else who fits the bill? Email Noah at the address above--we are always looking for great educators to interview for the podcast. Find Ivana Farrar on Instagram: @starrfarrar Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find Beth on Twitter: @BethRimer Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu

In this mini-series, Noah will be chatting with educators about "What's Working" in this weird year of pandemic-teaching. This episode features an Ohio teacher named Stephanie Pearson who uses her writing workshop approach to help students become better researchers during her inquiry units. Whether you're looking for writing workshop ideas, inquiry-based teaching moves, or managing a classroom during the pandemic--this episode is for you! Looking to get involved with the Ohio Writing Project? Here's a link to the OWP's page within Miami University's website: https://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ The Ohio Writing Project offers professional development for teachers and teacher-leaders alike! You can enroll in an OWP Credit Workshop, enlist OWP to lead PD in your district, or you can level-up through OWP's transformative Masters Degree program. There are so many ways you can find your professional home with the Ohio Writing Project. What's holding you back? Connect with us at: [email protected] Follow OWP on Twitter: @owpmu Find weekly writing invitations and mentor text activities on our Instagram, which is also @owpmu! Follow Stephanie on Twitter: @MrsPearsonTSD Follow Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach

Meghan Lawson is a kindness ambassador, teacher, and instructional coach. In addition to all that, Meghan has led professional development for the Ohio Writing Project, both as a consultant and as an instructor in OWP’s masters degree classes for teachers. In this episode, we discuss how sharing our teaching weaknesses can actually be a show of strength...and can make us better leaders, enhancing the conversations we have with colleagues--and with students. If you’re interested in teaching, leadership, professional development, or PLC work--this episode is for you! Follow more of Meghan’s Work: Meghanlawson.com Twitter: @Meghan_Lawson The Ohio Writing Project specializes in professional development for teachers. OWP does on-site PD with schools as well as virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses teachers can take for college credit. The Ohio Writing Project also features a masters degree program for teachers through Miami University. Featuring the renowned “4-Week”, the OWP’s Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is both practical and transformational. Learn more about the Ohio Writing Project + Programming: http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/english/academics/graduate-studies/ohio-writing-project/ GET INVOLVED! Want to be kept in the loop for future OWP events? Email us here: [email protected] Looking for a quick and easy writing invitation for your students...or yourself? Follow us on Instagram @owpmu Submit a poem to be featured on a future episode: [email protected] Do you have an share-worthy teaching practice? Do you know someone else who fits the bill? Email Noah at the address above--we are always looking for great educators to interview for the podcast. Find Noah on Twitter: @MrWteach Find Beth on Twitter: @BethRimer Find OWP on Twitter: @owpmu