Paula+Diedrich


 * Paula Diedrich** has been a fellow in the UPWP since 1999. She's been serving on the leadership team over four years as Associate Director of Professional Development. In this capacity she arranges TC's to present at conferences around the Upper Peninsula. She organized the Copper Country Reading Council evening professional development which consisted of four different sessions. As a representative for the UPWP she sits on both the UPRA and MARESA conference planning committees. Most recently Paula has been involved in the NWP Analytic Writing Continuum scoring process since August of 2007 when she attended the scoring conference in Ypsilanti, MI.

After attending the Ypsilanti scoring conference she wanted to bring it back to the our sight. She contacted the NWP office and began plans for an Advanced Institute in summer 2008. Since she was facilitating the Advanced Institute, NWP staff invited her to the NWP scoring conference in Denver. She returned to lead the Advanced Institute for TC's Marsha Page, Mary McCune, Mike Aubin, and Jolene Hetherington. That same summer she and Kim Parlato applied to attend another NWP scoring conference in September in Chicago. This conference scored only middle school papers. Kim and Paula scored only one trait, structure. While scoring the papers a TC from Boise State, Idado writing project asked if Paula would come and lead an institute for them. After much prodding she agreed! NWP staff again requested that she attend the June 2009 NWP scoring conference as a table leader. She recently returned and is in the process of planning the Idaho workshop in August. Additionally in June, 2009, Co-Director Jan Sabin organized a scoring conference for the UPWP site. Paula led the fifth-grade scoring room.

Paula is an eighth grade language arts and writing support teacher at Bothwell Middle School in Marquette. To see a little of what she's doing in her classroom, check out [] and [|Word Masters].

Other NWP/UPWP projects she's been involved with include: the [|Kerlan collection research], leading //Presenting with Pizzazz// Advanced Institute, a chapter in the book [|Writing Intentions], and almost always a presence at Saturday Sessions.

By Ann Chappel and Paula Diedrich