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		<title>Why I write&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A better title might be &#8220;Why I haven&#8217;t written&#8221;, but there is no good answer to to that, so instead I want to invite you and your students to participate in the &#8220;Why I Write&#8221;, a celebration of the National Day on Writing. The National Writing Project offers a number of ways you and your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=546&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry of Billy Collins in action!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled to find a link to Billy Collins&#8217; poetry, read by the author and animated.  They are wonderful!  Check these videos out!  Aside from playing the videos for our students, wouldn&#8217;t it be great to have them create their own videos for poems they write or for the poems of others?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=540&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Support for and from HPWP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Gustamantes April 11, 2011 at 10:54 am Every day I find myself questioning the many responsibilities imposed on me to deliver quality instruction. I yearn to do right by my students. I want them to look at the world through the same eyes I do; questioning, wondering, consumed with curiosity and delight. Yet the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=538&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Shared Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, what would I do without my HPWP colleagues? I picture myself fading away until I become less and less a teacher and more and more a deliverer of programs. It is my writing project colleagues that keep me inspired to live up to the calling of teacher. It is the reading, writing, and thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=534&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NWP reaches our students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leslie April 6, 2011 at 10:20 am I am proud to say that all my students consider themselves writers and poets, and this is due to the NWP and our local Writing Project. They actually ask me for writing prompts and funwrites. The fact that the students are comfortable with writing crosses over into all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=532&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In support of NWP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[vn jones April 5, 2011 at 7:33 pm Although it sounds trite, it is true: NWP changed my professional life and had great impact on my personal life. Because I learned to love to write, my students caught on and their essays became real writing rather than “something to please the teacher writing.” My teaching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=530&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can someone help us out?</title>
		<link>http://hpwp.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/can-someone-help-us-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NWP is attempting to have 1000 blog posts in support of the Writing Project posted by April 8th.  I have written my post, and I wonder if someone else wouldn&#8217;t like to offer a few words here about what the Writing Project means to you.  If you write the post, I will come back in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=526&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Need writing prompts?</title>
		<link>http://hpwp.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/need-writing-prompts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a link to a site I was not familiar with, thanks to Free Technology for Teachers.  It&#8217;s called Toasted Cheese.  The prompts are presented on a calendar, with one per day.  You can also access their archives of prompts by year.  2011&#8242;s can be found here.  They look pretty interesting.  Why not check [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=524&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happened to the e-zine?</title>
		<link>http://hpwp.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/what-happened-to-the-e-zine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am afraid that no one is asking that question, but I will answer it anyway. The e-zine seems to have been something I was interested in, but it did not appeal to much of anyone else.  For that reason, I have let it slide.  The last  call for submissions only produced poems from Gretchen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=521&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop in Portales</title>
		<link>http://hpwp.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/workshop-in-portales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy McKeand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in October Annemarie brought up the idea of doing a workshop in Portales. Before Nell and I got home from Roswell that day, we had most of it planned! We were excited! Well, February 19th was the magic day. We had arranged to hold it in Victory Life Coffee House in Portales. We invited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpwp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5766830&amp;post=512&amp;subd=hpwp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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