August, 2009
For more information contact:
Lorraine Tzeng
lctzeng@aol.com
216-251-2321
Announcing Birchwood School Gallery
A Local Partner Gallery in the National Gallery of Writing Writers at Birchwood School in Cleveland, Ohio, will join thousands of writers throughout the nation to display their compositions in http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/55327, a Local Partner Gallery in the National Gallery of Writing hosted by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Their compositions will be unveiled with the opening of the Gallery on October 20, 2009, the
National Day on Writing.
Gallery curators, Lorraine Tzeng and Karen Kufahl, invite you to view the Birchwood School Gallery (http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/55327). Browse through the stories, poems, and essays of Cleveland area students from Birchwood School (http://www.birchwoodschool.org/) whose writings will transport you to different times and places. The Birchwood School Gallery will strive to showcase Birchwood talent from grades K-8 that depict strong voice, vivid imagination, and a unique perspective.
As a Local Partner Gallery in the National Gallery of Writing, Birchwood School Gallery will join NCTE in celebrating composition in all its forms and demonstrating how integral writing has become to daily life in the 21st century.
All sorts of writers—students, teachers, parents, grandparents, service and industrial workers, managers, business owners, legislators, retirees, and many more—and all forms of composition from kindergarten picture messages to YouTube videos to short stories, emails, journal entries and more will be featured in the NCTE National Gallery of Writing (http://www.galleryofwriting.org/).
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The National Council of Teachers of English, with 50,000 individual and institutional members worldwide, is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. For more information, please visit http://www.ncte.org/.
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