North Dakota Teachers Hone Writing Skills

Publication: KX TV
Date: July 8, 2010

Summary: The Northern Plains Writing Project summer institute is a month-long program that allows educators from around the region to share ideas and learn new methods of improving student writing.

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Writing Project Co-Director, Ron Fischer, says the workshop can be a life-changing experience, and each participant has the opportunity to gain many useful teaching tools.

"They're with each other all day long, 9 to 4, and talking about their teaching and sharing what they do, and reading and writing about teaching and their classrooms and their experiences, and their students. Guess what? That's going to to make a big difference in them, and it does."

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