Welcome to WordPlay, the newsletter of the UCI Writing Project. I hope that you will enjoy our latest issue, and that you may perhaps be inspired to contribute to future issues. Our goals are to provide information that may be useful and informative to our Writing Project community, as well as to maintain that community by providing a space in which we may connect through writing.
Here are some highlights from our latest issue. To read more, click on the link to the August 2023 Newsletter below.
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From the Editor
Dear Writing Project Friends, Welcome to the August issue of WordPlay, the bimonthly newsletter of the UCI Writing Project. As you can see from Michael’s letter, it has been a busy and exciting summer for UCIWP. I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting the new class of Fellows at the Summer Institute in June, and I look forward to getting to know all of them further in the coming months. We will be spotlighting two or three of these talented individuals in each upcoming issue of WordPlay, beginning this month with Susan and Kimberly. You may send submissions to mrsharrington@gmail.com, and I look forward to hearing from you. From the Director Dear UCI Writing Project Community, What a wonderful summer! Between the Summer Institute, Summer Youth Program, and the Pathway Project, it has been a whirlwind of writing. Our program growth has been amazing! The theme of this year’s Summer Institute was Adventures in Teaching, and it was nonstop fun with our new fellows! We wrote on the beach, wrote at Bunny Henge, visited the Summer Youth Program, and embarked on a hero’s journey scavenger hunt. Our own Liz Harrington even shared and filmed her Harris Burdick lesson with us! Our 17 new fellows will be featured throughout the year in WordPlay and we hope to see most of them in Writing Project 2. Please introduce yourselves and welcome them when you have a chance. |
Featured Article:
Mother and Son Teaching Duo
Kathleen Young and Kyle Hoodman
I remember like it was yesterday, being inspired in 1999 by Drt. Larry Crystal’s infectious joy of Mathematics to join UCI’s Young Mathematicians/Young Scientists Summer Program. Every summer I lugged math manipulatives to the Student Center, spurred by the fun I would have with my young scholars. What was not fun was having a new teaching partner each session. All my colleagues were brilliant and professional, but by the time we developed an esprit de corps, it was the conclusion of our UCI stint.
Read the rest of this article in the August '23 newsletter.
Read the rest of this article in the August '23 newsletter.