If you’re interested in hosting a 2-week workshop or a 2 day seminar for your district, call Karen Hartman at 303-246-0657 or e-mail her at kj_hartman@comcast.net.
Author: Sarah M. Zerwin
Teacher Consultant, Tim Hillmer, Retires from CWP!
The Colorado Writing Project is sad to say good-bye to teacher/consultant Tim Hillmer. Tim has been with us for years, but once he retired from Boulder Valley School District, he began to focus on not only CWP, but also on other projects close to his heart. Tim was a teacher and then an instructional coach and finally a classroom mentor for BVSD. He was loved by his CWP students not only for his gentle coaching of their writing but for his expertise in teaching writing in the classroom. He was instrumental in helping us build our curriculum over the years, asking hard questions and helping us develop our vision for CWP.
Continue readingSummer 2019 Flashback: Oh, the Places You’ll Go With Writers’ Workshop
Note from Karen Hartman: Melissa Tobin, a 3rd grade teacher at University Hill Elementary School in the Boulder Valley School District shared her Connections Project to the Boulder CWP at our celebration. We laughed until we cried!
Congratulations! Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes.
You can teach Writers’ Workshop
Any way that YOU choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the teacher who’ll decide where to go. Continue reading
Wishing teaching consultant Shari Vandervelde well in her retirement from CWP
Shari Vandervelde has been a part of the Colorado Writing Project since 1998. We’ve been lucky to be a part of her decades-long career as an educator, which included classroom teaching, supervising student teachers for Colorado Mesa University, working as a consultant, and running a business coaching and tutoring students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
She is retiring from CWP to take on new life adventures, and we will miss her dearly: Continue reading
Planning retreat 2019
We’re making plans. We looking forward to seeing you in workshops this summer. We’re also planning some 2-day workshops for school year 2019-2020.
Happy writing!
Write with us this summer!
We have several two-week workshops and two-day seminars scheduled so far for summer 2019.
Visit the Schedule/Registration page to find one that works for you.
A wonderful group of teachers met in Aspen for two weeks of writing and learning about the teaching of writing.
The teachers who participated in a two-week workshop in Aspen in August, 2018, with CWP director, Karen Hartman.
Teachers from around the Denver area gathered in Adams 12 for two weeks of writing and learning
Teachers who participated in the July 2018 two-week CWP Workshop in Adams 12 with CWP director, Karen Hartman.
Scenes from the CWP workshop going on in Boulder
Boulder CWP Celebrates
Great celebration today in Boulder with these new CWP fellows. Thanks for an awesome two weeks!
Colorado Writing Project 