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YWP History -- the short version

 Champlain Mill -- Our New Home : Winooski River floods Mill in 1927. YWP offices are about 8 windows down in the submerged portion.Champlain Mill -- Our New Home : Winooski River floods Mill in 1927. YWP offices are about 8 windows down in the submerged portion. New address: YWP, Champlain Mill, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Suite #4, Winooski, VT, 05404.

Well here I go... A brief history of the Young Writers Project, call it the elevator pitch:

  • Thirty-two year career in journalism; had fun, did some good but was getting tired of cut, cut cut.
  • Created a weekly feature to publish best work by students and to promote best practices for teaching writing. In three years it had ballooned -- about 850 submissions in 2005/06, and I was doing it all at home -- making pages, doing a Dreamweaver web site and so and so....
  • In early January 2006 I decided to kill the project at the end of the school year. A week later... 

 

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Submitted by ggevalt on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 21:41

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Geoffrey Gevalt  founded and directs the Young Writers Project, a VT nonprofit working to build a generation of better writers. Lee McIsaac directs YWP's mentoring and publication programs.Kate Fallone is a longtime UVM mentor and YWP instructor. This blog highlights cool things students and teachers are doing, talks about activities at YWP and shows some of the impact of this project.   PLEASE COMMENT; otherwise we will think no one is reading. Thanks.

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