My Author-in-Residence Program K-12 inservice a school, its educators, parents, and the community. The Program is collaboratively custom designed nonfiction writing across the curriculum and can also include public speaking instruction, in a block or blocks of time throughout the academic year.

"It is great to have the students work with real people in their field. It motivated them and reenergized my students. I did the same for me as a teacher of writing. The Program and the week was wonderful for teachers, students, and parents. I would love to have even more time with you here. Thank you for a great week for the last three years."

Primrose School, K-2, Somers School District, Westchester, NY

Some of the collaborated areas of nonfiction writing and speaking Programs, K-12 in public, private, and gifted schools:

• Teachers as Writers and Presenters
• Observe, Explore, Read, Discover; Writing Poems About the Real World
• A Year of Nature Journaling for Students and Teachers
• Jazzing Up Nonfiction in Middle School
• Vistas and Microcosms; Observing and Perceiving to Write Science
• Writing Compelling Journalism; The Hook and Dazzle of the Truth
• Antarctica and the Arctic; Who's Got the Penguins? Where are the Polar Bears?
• Global Warming; No Ice, No Seals, No Polar Bears...Then What?

I teach nonfiction writing in prose and poetry, at Webster University, and at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Fox Valley Writing Project, and at Writer's Conferences.

Courses I teach at Webster University in St. Louis:

• Teacher as Artist, Writer, and Presenter
• Teacher as Writer
• Nonfiction Writing of Prose and Poetry

I have conducted workshop/seminars at my university, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, for The Fox Valley Writing Project.

The New Author-In-Residence Program for Colleges and Universities:

• Collaborative planning for the Program can happen within any part of the University; Education, Arts and Sciences, Business, National Writing Project Groups, and classes.
• The Program offers any number of workshops, seminars, and classes.
• The Program facilitates the formation of on-going writing groups across the curriculum for faculty and students and administrators.
• The Program facilitates writing retreats on and off campus.
• The Program provides mentoring opportunities for individuals from any course of study or curriculum area of the university.
• Round Tables, readings, and publications, are part of the Program, working in conjunction with existing events and media now part of the university.

I look forward to working with you to enrich the writing lives of your students and faculty.