Teachers-- I am finishing up the continued funding application (annual grant writing) for OWP. I want to be sure that I don't leave anyone out. I need you to respond right away if I can list you under this category: • You are also invited to list or describe other accomplishments at your site, including NBPTS-certified teachers, teachers of the year, director recognition, publications, and other noteworthy items. This report is for the 2004-2005 school year. Please let me know if you were Teacher of the Year in your school last year. I'd also like to like to know if you have been nominated this year. If you received other honors or had other articles published, I'd like to list them, too. Here are the honors I already have listed: Starla Howard, Shawnee, was one of the top 12 finalists for Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. Carmi Scheller received National Board Certification in November. That raises our total of NBCTs to 39! Three of our TCs have had articles published in the English Journal: To Search for Enlightenment: Responding to Siddhartha through Paint and Poetry Kelly Courtney-Smith and Michael Angelotti To encourage creative thinking, high school teacher Kelly Courtney-Smith asked her students for creative responses to Hesse’s novel, using a technique she learned from coauthor Michael Angelotti. Students painted or wrote poems interpreting their reading, then responded to the creations of their classmates. The students found that these “collaborative activities provided insights into the novel, their classmates, and their paintings and poems.” English Journal, Volume 94, Number 6, July 2005 Pedagogical Recycling: How Colleagues Change Colleagues' Minds Cindy O'Donnell-Allen Using the metaphor of recycling along a continuum, teacher-researcher Cindy O’Donnell-Allen describes how teachers adapt the ideas of their colleagues with varying degrees of change based on their different contexts. English Journal, Volume 95, Number 2, November 2005 Thanks for your help with this! Janis Janis Cramer Co-Director of Inservice Oklahoma Writing Project 820 Van Vleet Oval University of Oklahoma Phone and Fax (405) 495-4903 [log in to unmask]