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- Ruie Pritchard, Ph.D., was a middle and high school and college teacher in Missouri and New Orleans before coming to NC State University in Raleigh, NC. Currently, she is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, emphasis English Education. Her responsibilities include working in graduate and undergraduate education, as well as research. For 25 years, she has served as Director of the CAWP, an award winning National Writing Project site that offers fellowships to K-12 teachers to enhance their abilities as writers and teachers of writing. For her outreach contributions, in 2002 she received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award, one of three on the NC State campus. She also established writing projects in New Zealand while she was on a Fulbright Senior Researcher Award with the NZ Ministry of Education. Fifteen New Zealand teachers have come to Raleigh to participate in the summer CAWP institute. Her research area is the professional development of teachers, and school district organization that enables teachers to grow. She has chapters devoted to the research on the process approach to teaching writing and on best practices in teaching writing in the books Handbook of Research on Teaching Writing (2006) and Best Practices in Literacy Instruction (2007), Guilford Press.
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Pritchard currently serves as Coordinator of English Education, Director of the Capital Area Writing Project, and Department Graduate Program Director for C & I. A current concern is raising $46,000 in matching funds by December in order to be able to apply for CAWP 2009.
Her next greatest concern right now is getting her office to appear as if a madwoman does not occupy it.
Her next greatest concern right now is getting her office to appear as if a madwoman does not occupy it.
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Thanks for the kind compliment.
To me, this is an interesting new way to communicate with my colleagues.
Wish you are off with a good new semester.
Raymond
Isn't it fun to communicate in this new form?
Thanks for your interesting notes.
Raymond