Email: bloome.1@osu.edu
Website: http://ehe.osu.edu/edtl/faculty/BloomeDavid.htm
David Bloome is a professor in the Language, Literary and Culture Program for the School of Teaching and Learning in The Ohio State University College of Education. He teaches courses on researching language, literacy and culture in classrooms, writing in the community, discourse analysis, and the New Literacy Studies. He is a former middle school and high school teacher. He is former president of the national Council of Teachers of English as well as a former president of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy.
E-mail: rholl10554@aol.com or rholland@columbus.k12.oh.us
Robin Holland is an elementary teacher at Salem Elementary School in Columbus. She teaches a fifth grade classroom and also leads a writing study group for teachers, as well as an after-school writing project for students, both based on National Writing Project philosophy. She has served in many positions during her 33 years with Columbus Public Schools including: Literacy Coach, Reading Recovery Teacher, Gifted Education Teacher, and Consulting Teacher in the Peer Assistance and Review Program. In addition she had been a Coordinator for both the Reading Department and the Title I Department. Her continuing interests lie in discovering ways to ensure that all students learn to read and write effectively, as well as building capacity with teachers in those areas. In addition Ms. Holland recently sponsored a visit to Salem Elementary School by Senator Sherrod Brown's education aide who wanted to observe a CAWP/NWP teacher and classroom in action.
E-mail: cordi.3@osu.edu
Kevin Cordi is Co-Director of the Columbus Writing Project and has also trained as a writing consultant with the San Joaquin Writing Project at California State University in Fresno. He has taught Creative Writing, English, and Reading classes as a high school teacher of 14 years. For six years he taught Storytelling for Teachers at CSU. He is presently a PhD student at The Ohio State University studying the impact of dramatic inquiry as it relates to narrative. He is a nationally known storyteller and was the first full time high school storytelling teacher in the country. He is the co-author of Raising Voices: Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes. He believes in the combination of writing and speaking. When he is not writing, he is telling others about the joy of story and the wonder of the imagination. His website is www.youthstorytelling.com
Email: newell.2@osu.edu
Website: http://ehe.osu.edu/edtl/faculty/NewellGeorge.htm
George Newell is professor of English education in the College of Education at the Ohio State University where he teaches courses in the English language arts teacher education program, including methods courses in the teaching of writing and the teaching of literature. His research interests include investigations of the cognitive and linguistic demands of school tasks, especially writing and learning in English and the content areas; examining the kinds of instructional support provided in undertaking those tasks; and assessing the knowledge and skills that result. Over the last five years, he has used activity theory to conduct studies of the development and support of English teachers as they move through teacher education and into their early careers. He is a former secondary teacher of English.
E-mail: wilson.370@osu.edu or mwilson@ehe.osu.edu
Melissa Wilson is the program manager of the CAWP. She is a teacher consultant of the CAWP and has recently retired from Columbus City Schools after completing 30 years of teaching. She has worked as a classroom teacher, a Reading Recovery teacher a Title 1 Reading teacher, a Literacy Collaborative facilitator, and as a "Master Teacher" with an Ohio Department of Education initiative called the Teacher Advancement Program. She is in the PhD. program at the Ohio State University and is one of the editors for Language Arts, the elementary journal for NCTE. She is also one of the authors of Success Stories from a Failing School: Teachers Living Under the Shadow of NCLB.
Nancy McCracken has recently joined the CAWP leadership team. Dr. McCracken was the director of the Kent State University Writing Project as well as a professor at Kent State and active in OCTELA. She has just recently retired and relocated to the Columbus area. She is interested in developing special projects for the CAWP that address issues of writing and social justice.
