In the scorching hot summer of 2008, I and 22 others began our quest. Meeting everyday, intensely striving to become better teachers, the Upstate Writing Project generated enough brain power to keep an entire city block electric. As a sort of Summer Camp for Teachers, we leave our homes with our brown-bag lunches, water bottles, and laptops ready for a week of nose-to-the-grindstone hard work inside the Univeristy Center, and we're rewarded with fun field trips outside on Friday, where the bugs don't bite and the hot sun doesn't singe our skin.
Our writing calluses grow along with our brains. New friendships, some lifelong, are forged. Writing is critiqued. Personalities are tolerated. Laptops are beaten, sometimes wounded, by heavy fingers.
We join Google Groups, we blog on Blogspot, we respond on e-Anthology, we email our classmates in confusion! We make movies, we make presentations, we make the world a better place to live. We are the Upstate Writing Project. Here us ROAR!!!!!!!!
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