THE POWER OF WWP: UW grad and Chugwater High School teacher Carrie Langston knows the value of the Wyoming Writing Project (WWP). Carrie, teacher-leader with the WWP (sponsored by the UW Department of English), first became involved with the program 20 years ago when she participated in a National Writing Project summer institute. She recently traveled to D.C. to participate in a roundtable discussion of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. "The National Writing Project provides me with a key tool -- a network of teachers across the country with whom I can collaborate on a variety of projects," says Langston. "I am proud to be one of the 100,000 teachers a year who are 'in the trenches,' working daily to bring not only literacy, but the application of higher-level thinking skills to students and to my colleagues who teach social studies, math, science, business, foreign language, and special education."

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