Arizona Teachers Learn to Be as Good as Their Words

Publication: Arizona Daily Star
Date: June 26, 2009

Summary: Teachers gather in Tuscon for the Southern Arizona Writing Project's summer institute to not only become better teachers and get "a taste of teaching paradise," but also to become better writers.

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What's the difference between authority and power—and can you have one without the other?

How can art—or even just scribbling—help wring words from their dark, amorphous place of origin?

These are some of the questions being asked as about two dozen teachers work through a five-week summer institute sponsored by the Southern Arizona Writing Project, a University of Arizona site of the National Writing Project.

The goal is to help teachers, who receive tuition waivers for six graduate credits, develop their own voices as writers, and bring that new confidence to the classroom to better reach their students.

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