MWSU English faculty members Meredith Katchen (2007 Institute) andPatricia Donaher (2007 Institute) conducted a workshop, "Source’s Apprentice: How Not to Do a Mickey Mouse Job of Attribution” for the state's annual Write to Learn Conference, for language arts educators, grades K - 16, held at Tan-Tar-A in February. See the new website created by Meredith and Trish for Missouri teachers to share effective teaching strategies for teaching citation and reducing plagiarism. Write to Learn is co-sponsored each year by the Missouri Writing Projects Network, and Jane Frick (PLWP director) assisted with the MWPN's poster session, which featured the successful classroom inquiry projects recently completed by teachers in Prairie Lands' Literacy Academy facilitated by Valorie Stokes (1994 Institute) and Heidi Mick (1996 and 2002 Institutes).
Tom Pankiewicz (Institutes Director) wrote the successful grant application that will send $4000 to Prairie Lands next year to fund our Teacher Inquiry Project related to Academic Writing.