Here you will find the Oregon Writing Project's previous, current, and ongoing partnerships and projects focusing on reading, writing, and community in southern Oregon.
Our Digital Storytelling project is an ongoing partnership with Ontasc Productions, the School of Education at Southern Oregon University, undergraduate education majors, and local K-12 schools and teachers. In 2015 and 2016, Digital Storytelling came to Ruch Community K-8 School. The 2014 and 2015 reports to the PTO document the program's outcomes.
This short video is narrated by Dr. Margaret Perrow, Director of the Oregon Writing Project at SOU.
This brief video, made by a student in SOU's Digital Media program, provides the perspective of an undergraduate student intern who was part of the spring 2015 Digital Storytelling Program at Ruch School.
SOU School of Ed
Teaching Argument-Writing Collaborative
"Good argument!" April 15, 2017 The 2016-17 Teaching Argument-Writing Collaborative (TAWC) held a spring conference on Saturday, April 15, 2017. Colleagues joined together for a morning packed full of tips and strategies for teaching argument-writing in the middle/high school classroom.
Who: Teachers grades 6-12 Where: Southern Oregon University Stevenson Union When: Saturday, April 15, 8:30 am - 1:30 pm Cost: $30 (includes 5 PDUs and lunch)
Check out Kelly Singleton and Margaret Perrow's spotlight on the Oregon Writing Project's constant effort to better equip teachers with new tools to effectively teach argumentative writing. Click here to read the full article in the Daily Tidings, a southern Oregon newspaper, about the importance of making argument writing fun and interactive, and how members of the OWP are doing it.
Kelly Singleton, a Phoenix High School teacher, taught a professional development workshop on argumentative writing at Klamath Community College as part of an ongoing collaoration between SOU and KCC. On her participation in the "teaching argument-writing" course, she says, " I believe in the writing project. I think it's a really great program and if I can help out and earn some professional development, and become an even better teacher myself while I'm at it, it's kind of a no-brainer." (Joe Zavala, Ashland Daily Tidings).
