A Conversation with Colleagues from South Africa and CWP-Fairfield's Beauty Makinta @cwpfairfield @fairfieldu

Last evening, Fairfield University's special guest from Pretoria, South Africa, was featured on National Writing Project. She, along with four other colleagues from S. Africa and their hosts, were interviewed about their collaboration with the U.S. Embassy, and how they are invested in establishing writing projects in S. Africa. They came to the United States to attend teacher institutes, and Fairfield was fortunate enough to be a chosen location.

Beauty Makinta joined 11 other teachers this summer for four weeks of writing under the direction of Julie Roneson, Lynn Winslow, and Dr. Bryan Ripley Crandall, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions and the Director of the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield. During week one, teachers wrote personal  pieces and learned from several demonstrations of expert teachers. The second week they worked on writing creatively and had opportunities to experience stellar writing workshops. In week three, they focused on real-world genres and met with State Senator Bob Duff, and next week they do teaching demonstrations of their own and write reflectively to showcase their thinking of the invitational summer institute. The National Writing Project model is teachers teaching teachers and their mission is to promote teachers as writers and writers as teachers.

The full episode, A Conversation with Colleagues from South Africa, showcases the experiences of the teachers from South Africa.

Motho ke motho ka bathao ba bangwe. (Sotho)
I can be me because of who we are together.

Ubuntu is a skill4life that promotes literacy4life.