Dear colleagues,

Each spring, WMWP seeks two new co-directors to serve on its leadership team. This year, the three-year terms of Outreach Co-Director Kevin Hodgson and Language, Culture, and Diversity Co-Director Momodou Sarr are ending, and we are inviting applications for those positions for the next three-year term, 2019-2022.

Dear colleagues,

Applications are currently being accepted for the New England Holocaust Educators Network seminar held each summer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,hosted by the Western Massachusetts Writing Project and sponsored by The Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI). I strongly recommend this program.

The 2019 Youth Writing Adventure, sponsored by the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, was held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts in March. Students from visiting schools were led in writing sessions led by WMWP teacher consultants. Young writer were immersed in experience of writing together, on the grounds of the university.

Smith Vocational Agricultural High School History teacher Shannon Brisbois, in the March Chalk Talk at the Daily Hampshire Gazette, explores the role of women in history, and how often they get left out of the history books. Read her piece - Remember the Ladies, All Year Long -- and peruse the entire Chalk Talk archives for inspirational stories from WMWP educators.