Arkansas Site Director Named English Teacher of the Year

Publication: Log Cabin Democrat
Date: November 3, 2009

Summary: Stephanie Vanderslice, associate professor of writing at the University of Central Arkansas and site director of the Great Bear Writing Project, has been named Arkansas University English Teacher of the Year.

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She also works with teachers through the Great Bear Writing Project, a professional development project to enhance the teaching of kindergarten through 12th-grade writing. Vanderslice and others at UCA started the Great Bear Writing Project 10 years ago, and she is now the director. It is a site of the National Writing Project, she said.

"It's really blossomed. I put a lot of work into it ... but it's also blossomed because we have such wonderful leaders, and the teachers," Vanderslice said.

Vanderslice added she hopes to "empower teachers to feel like they can teach writing and teach it well. It's inspiring to work with the teachers."

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