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Thank You!

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Thanks to Asheville City Schools for Funding  Innovation Grants with AWITS Writers...
and to the teachers who believe in the power of
writing and a writer in the classroom!

2012-2013
  • Family Literacy Project: Ira B Jones Elementary School, Meggen Lyon writer-in-residence in Lisa Carver's second grade classroom and Mollie Macdonald's 3rd grade classroom.  In addition, Meggen will work with class families through the year at a separate location. 
2011-2012
  • Writing to Change the World 
            5th grade, Isaac Dickson Elementary                        
            Teachers: Libby Kyles, Shannon Fields, and
            Kelly Schultz  
            Janet Hurley, Writer-in-Residence
  • Food For Thought
            1st-4th grade,  Isaac Dickson Elementary
            Teachers: Patti Evans, May Castelloe, and Mairead
            Smitka
            Adam Blake Wright, Writer-in-Residence
  • Writing for Literacy   
            8th grade, Asheville Middle School
            Teacher: Moira Bradford
            Tamiko Ambrose Murray, Writer-in-Residence
   

Thank You!

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To the Target Foundation for
a Target Store Grant which will
place AWITS writer Meggen Lyon
in a fourth grade classroom at
Ira B. Jones Elementary School.

Thank You!

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The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation provided the funding for our first bi-lingual residency ever at the Centro de Enlace  Community Center in Burnsville, North Carolina.