WILDCAT WRITERS ADVISORY BOARD
Our Advisory Board of high school and UA educators meets monthly to plan professional development events for our partnerships.
The Board also mentors partnerships, seeks funding, and recruits new teachers for next year's partnerships.
THE HISTORY OF WILDCAT WRITERS
Wildcat Writers began as a single partnership between Desert View High School teacher Liz Denbo and UA graduate teaching assistant Anna Varley in fall 2004. These two teachers linked their English classes, offering their students a chance to interact and share writing. The goal was to provide a sense of continuity and community between secondary and higher education, as well as opportunity for civic engagement, collaboration, and exploration of education issues and college life. Varley later worked with Anne-Marie Hall, the director of UA's writing program, to extend this opportunity to other teachers, and the official program was born. As Wildcat Writers continued to grow, the program evolved to become a full year partnership, with teachers planning in the fall and linking classes in the spring. Now embedded firmly in the writing program and several local high schools, Wildcat Writers continues to develop based on the creative input from teacher participants, reaching hundreds of students each year.
We look forward to another engaging year of collaboration, and we invite you to join us.