Welcome

The National Writing Project at Kent State University (NWP-KSU) has been a National Writing Project site since 1997. NWP-KSU is committed to improving teaching and learning in Northeast Ohio through teacher leadership and professional development.

With NWP-KSU, teachers of all subjects and grade levels can:

• Share effective practices
• Collaborate with colleagues
• Grow as writers

• Improve the teaching of writing

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Power of the Pen and the National Writing Project at Kent State University Present
Kernels of Wisdom:
​The Stories Around Us
Date: November 2, 2019
Time: 9 a.m. to noon
Location: White Hall at Kent State University
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lori Wilfong, author of Writing Strategies that Work: Do This - Not That!
Register online through October 28, 2019
          Join Power of the Pen and the National Writing Project at Kent State University for a morning of highly engaging sessions on bringing out the best in students’ fiction writing. The keynote will highlight strategies for helping students of all grade levels find stories in every aspect of their daily lives. It is followed by your choice of two out of four breakout sessions led by NWP-KSU Teacher Consultants:

• Powerful Language, Alexa Sandmann
• Making Your Fiction Flashy: Six Ways to Tell Your Story, Jeff Harr
• Pacing and Suspense: Using Writing Tools to Increase Story Tension, Jean Kanzinger

• Judging at a Power of the Pen Tournament (Session 1), Barb Tschantz
• Don't Just Stand There Yapping, Do Something!: (Session 2), Barb Tschantz (with thanks to authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter)

​The cost is $30. Participants receive a goody bag and 3 contact hours. Download the flyer and share it with colleagues. Registration is open through October 28, 2019.

Register for Kernels of Wisdom

NWP-KSU Celebrates
National Day on Writing
at Cuyahoga Valley National Park

     Visitors stopped by the NWP-KSU activity table at Cuyahoga Valley National Park's Octagon Shelter throughout the afternoon of October 20 to celebrate the National Day on Writing. Participants engaged in activities such as "What Am I?" riddles, personalized comic strips,  a "leaf" poem, or a nature journal. Each visitor also contributed a line to a "Where I'm From" poem, as well as a found poem
     The event was co-hosted by Cuyahoga Valley National Park and NWP-KSU as part of a two-week celebration of Write Out, a place-based learning partnership between the National Writing Project and the National Park Service.