Supporting educators through a professional network dedicated to becoming writers and teachers of writing.
About Us
Learn more about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved!
Founder and Co-Director of the Manitoba Writing Project
Dr. Michelle Honeyford is a Professor in Language & Literacy at the University of Manitoba. In her research and teaching Michelle draws upon critical, feminist, sociomaterial, relational, transcultural, anti-colonial, and anti-oppressive theories and perspectives to consider the ethical, epistemological, and ontological dimensions of language and literacies in everyday practices and in pedagogy. Michelle’s work engages deeply with issues of equity, agency, and difference, and how literacy pedagogies can be re-imagined to contribute to human and more-than-human flourishing.
Co-Director of the Manitoba Writing Project
Dr. Jennifer Watt is an Associate Professor in Language and Literacies at the University of Manitoba. Her research explores re-imagining literacies assessment, embodied and relational place walking and writing practices, and the potential of critical media literacies to interrupt and address gender-based sexual violence in K–12 schools. She currently serves as second vice-president of the Language and Literacies Researchers of Canada (LLRC).
Dr. Jennifer Watt (left) and Dr. Michelle Honeyford (right).
Our Ongoing Efforts
COMMUNITY
Manitoba children and youth are at the centre of the MBWP. The goal of the MBWP community is to contribute directly to educating and empowering young people to think critically, develop passion about human rights issues, and identify as writers who can effectively communicate and offer their voices in public dialogue as citizens.
INQUIRY
We are committed to an inquiry stance, approaching writing and the teaching of writing as a form of teacher-research. We believe teacher inquiry contributes to a profession that values teachers as theorists, as producers of curriculum and materials, and as activists for their students and communities.
TEACHER LEADERSHIP
Teachers who participate in Summer Institutes will be expected to play a vital role in leading sustained efforts to enact pedagogies of critical literacy and social justice in their schools. With ongoing support and programming from the MBWP, Manitoba Writing Project teacher-leaders will study and share effective practices, work collaboratively with other educators, design resources, and take on new roles in their teaching contexts and with other teachers from across the province.
Renewal events are held for past summer writing institute participants to reconnect with one another and to inspire and inform our writing and teaching of writing. Outreach events are open to the public with the goal of creating collective experiences for writers and teachers of writing.
