April 07, 2016

Spring 2016: Two OWP Writing Coaches Recently Published

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Rebecca Henkleberry, and Jeff Waters, OWP Teacher Consultants, have been featured in Rethinking Schools Magazine

COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, OWP Teacher Consultant
Students learn about the FBI’s counterintelligence program of the 1960s and ´70s. They see the roots of Black Lives Matter—and the attacks on it—in the history of Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Hampton. From the article:  [My students] “struggle to understand a society that continues to allow Black lives to die at the hands of law enforcement.”

The Most Gentrified City of the Century
By Becky HenkleBerry and Jeff Waters, OWP Teacher Consultants
Middle school teachers collaborate to help students understand and critique the changes that have taken place in their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood. Their inspired students create an online resource of local history and heroes. The article begins, “Boise-Eliot/Humboldt School is a special place. It stands, 90-year-old red brick and mortar, amongst newly constructed condos, craft breweries, and combination laundromat-bars, just a block off historic Mississippi Avenue in the Albina area of North Portland, Oregon.”

To learn more about the OWP Certificate in the Teaching of Writing, see: https://graduate.lclark.edu/programs/continuing_education/certificates/oregon_writing/