Supporting educators through a professional network dedicated to becoming writers and teachers of writing.
Our
Collaborations
The Manitoba writing project is actively involved in building relationships with professional organizations, teachers, and schools so that we may inform others and be informed ourselves. Listed below are some of the MBWP's major partners and associates.
Ripple Effects International
https://rippleeffectsinternational.org/
Ripple Effects International is an arts, education, and sustainability project involving schools, libraries, universities, and community organizations to promote climate change awareness and community literacy through photo essays from people around the globe.
National Writing Project
http://www.nwp.org/
The National Writing Project is a network of over 200 university-based writing project sites across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. NWP Educators come together to write and to further their professional journeys as writing educators. The MBWP is one of six Associated International Sites of the NWP.
University of Manitoba Centre for Human Rights Research
http://chrr.info/
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. More than 150 professors at the University of Manitoba focus on human-rights-related research.
University of Manitoba Institute of the Humanities
https://umanitoba.ca/arts/institute-humanities
The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities (UMIH) was established in 1990 to foster research and scholarship in the Humanities at the University of Manitoba, to promote cross-disciplinary research in the Humanities, and to help obtain external funding for Humanities research.
University of Manitoba Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund
We wish to acknowledge the University of Manitoba Vice Provost (Academic Affairs) for a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Award (2014) to support the launch of our Summer Institutes and the growth of graduate students and their work in Manitoba classrooms and communities in teaching writing for/as social justice and human rights.