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Write to Learn: Conference & Presentation Opportunity

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This spring, Missouri Writing Projects Network is hosting Write to Learn on April 9th & 10th, 2026 in Columbia, Missouri. Write to Learn is an annual language arts conference open to teachers of all grade levels. The event features full-day workshops, keynote speakers, breakout sessions and more focused on language arts pedagogy. Register for the conference here!

The conference is taking submissions for breakout session proposals until November 21, 2025 via this google form. You must include your topic proposal for the session, the description of this idea, potential features of the presentation, and the intended audience.

The conference committee will review your proposal and inform you of its status on December 15, 2025. If selected, you will be granted a $100 stipend per presentation session.

The costs to attend are listed below:

  • $289 for the Full 2 Day Conference
  • $189 for only One Day (Thursday or Friday)

 

Tell your “Pixar” Story

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Tell you and your students CODERS story. Tell a Pixar Story.

Try out this form and share a draft of your story. Use this link with your students as well. 

Once upon a time there was ___.

Every day, [the students, the teacher, whoever the story is about].

One day ___.

Because of that, ___.

Because of that, ___.

Until finally ___.

After you write your story, take a few minutes to edit. Jen and I used this template to write her spotlight. She told the story, I took dictation for her, and then edited out the “once upon a time.”

This could be a partner exercise to begin or end a class. Tell the students they will be published! Send your stories in. We will edit, send back to you, and publish. Group of people working together at a table with another group in the background

Career CX: Computer Science Demand Grows Exponentially

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Interesting article on the increasing demand for degrees in Computer
Science. While UC-Berkeley has over 2,000, Missouri State University has nearly 300. Talk with Dr. Iqbal for any questions. 

Demand for computer science classes has overwhelmed many US campuses in recent years, with growth in student numbers not matched by similar expansions in faculty or facilities. UC Berkeley has nearly 2,000 graduates a year in computer science and data science, up from just 200 a decade ago; prompting the elite institution to create its first new college in more than 50 years. 

The College of Computing, Data Science, and Society is seen as a way of helping the campus cope by consolidating the deluge of demand and then better distributing it. Where Berkeley leads, others often follow, so could this be a model for coping with the field’s surging and often unmet demand?