Meet the Co-Directors

David Bloome

Email: davidbloome@gmail.com

Website: http://ehe.osu.edu/edtl/faculty/BloomeDavid.htm

David Bloome is a professor in the Language, Literary and Culture Program for the School of Teaching and Learning in The Ohio State University College of Education. He teaches courses on researching language, literacy and culture in classrooms, writing in classrooms and in the community, discourse analysis, and reading, writing and literacy. He is a former middle school and high school teacher. He is former president of the national Council of Teachers of English as well as a former president of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy.  He was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2008 and is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

 

Robin Holland

E-mail: rholl10554@aol.com

Robin Holland is a recently retired teacher and NWP Teacher Consultant. She served in many positions during her 35 years with Columbus City Schools including: Literacy Coach, Reading Recovery Teacher, Gifted Education Teacher, and Consulting Teacher in the Peer Assistance and Review Program. In addition she had been a Coordinator for both the Reading Department and the Title I Department. Her continuing interests lie in discovering ways to ensure that all students learn to read and write effectively, as well as building capacity with teachers in those areas. Before retiring, she led both student and teacher writing groups in her school based on the National Writing Project philosophy.  Ms. Holland also sponsored a visit to Salem Elementary School by Senator Sherrod Brown’s education aide who wanted to observe a CAWP/NWP teacher and classroom in action.

 

Kevin Cordi

E-mail:  kcteller@sbcglobal.net

Kevin Cordi is Co-Director of the Columbus Writing Project and has also trained as a writing consultant with the San Joaquin Writing Project at California State University in Fresno. He has taught Creative Writing, English, and Reading classes as a high school teacher of 14 years. He is an Assistant Professor at Ohio Dominican University teaching Applied Storytelling, Children’s Literature, Language Arts, and Teaching Methods.  He holds a doctorate from The Ohio State University. One major area of expertise and research is how narrative is used to promote teaching and learning.  He believes every student has a new story to tell and creating narrative spaces allows children and young adults to have a voice in the classroom.  He also specializes in using process drama with children.  Both narrative and inquiry based dramatic learning has been his subjects of scholarship.

He has served at The Ohio State University as the first ever “Academic Storyteller-in-Residence.”  He worked with The Multicultural Center using narrative to address social justice, equity, and race relations.  He is a nationally known storyteller and was the first full time high school storytelling teacher in the country. He is the co-author with Judy Sima of an award-winning text: Raising Voices: Building Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes. He is the co-author of Raising Voices: Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes. When he is not writing, he is telling others about the joy of story and the wonder of the imagination.     His website is www.kevincordi.com

George Newell

Email: newell.2@osu.edu

Website: http://ehe.osu.edu/edtl/faculty/NewellGeorge.htm

George Newell is a professor of Adolescent literacy and English education in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. He teaches courses on the teaching of writing, the teaching of literature, teacher inquiry, and research and theory in teacher education. His research interests include the teaching and learning of argumentative writing in high school English language arts classrooms. He has also conducted  studies of the learning and development preservice English teachers as they move through teacher education and into their early careers. He is a former high school English language arts teacher.

 

Melissa Wilson

E-mail: wilson.370@osu.edu

Melissa Wilson is a co-director and program manager of the CAWP. She is a teacher consultant of the CAWP and retired from Columbus City Schools after completing 30 years of teaching. She has worked as a classroom teacher, a Reading Recovery teacher a Title 1 Reading teacher, a Literacy Collaborative facilitator, and as a “Master Teacher” with an Ohio Department of Education initiative called the Teacher Advancement Program. She completed her doctoral studies at the Ohio State University in August 2012. She is  one of the authors of Success Stories from a Failing School: Teachers Living Under the Shadow of NCLB.