TCWP+Continuity

Continuity The Third Coast Writing Project offers opportunities for continued professional fun, fellowship, learning and growth for participants who have concluded the Invitational Summer Institute. Continuity programs range from advanced institutes that focus on burning issues and strategies in literacy education, to leadership opportunities with TCWP or the networks of the state and/or national writing project, to participation in grant-funded programming, to meeting at potlucks or a local bar or restaurant for the sharing of writing or a TGIF.

Each summer TCWP offers a full menu of advanced-institutes for participants who have completed the TCWP Invitational Institute, and mini-institutes for teachers new to the Third Coast Writing Project.

Co-Directors Share the TCWP Story and Strategies with Colleagues in Eastern Michigan ​













**Limericks**

Third Coast Writing Project teachers like to have fun with writing and with one another, and spontaneous limericks do both at the same time. The tradition started some years ago that whenever TCWP folks gather in a bar or restaurant, the waiter is given an ample tip that includes an original poem, written on a napkin from the establishment.



This limerick was written on a napkin during a lunch in downtown Kalamazoo at the TCWP Rural Sites Conference Writing Marathon in March, 2009. It reads:

//Children are points of light Some of them just don't burn bright It's the dim bulbs I like Kids like Bruno or Spike Who have vision that go(es) beyond sight.//

In addition to the programs described above, TCWP publishes a newsletter at roughly quarterly intervals. For more information, contact the editors, Pen Campbell at pcampbel@remc11.k12.mi.us or Dan Holt at dholt@remc11.k12.mi.us.
 * TCWP Newsletter **

Each year TCWP Directors and Teacher Consultants meet occasionally to learn from an invited speaker or workshop presenter or from each other. Some groups have met for weekend reunion retreats, a practice that TCWP plans to continue.
 * TCWP Continuity Events **

TCWP Teacher Consultants have served in a variety of leadership roles. They lead workshop sessions for teachers in their own and other school districts. They lead conference sessions at state and national conferences. They serve as Returning Fellows and Co-Directors of TCWP. They serve as members of TCWP's Leadership Team and in leadership roles linked to National Writing Project programs.
 * TCWP Leadership **