After learning in March that the National Writing Project had lost its federal funding, Melissa Tedrowe remembers feeling “fear” and “uncertainty.”
“I just wondered, what does this all mean?” she says. “It was a bit of a dark time.” That was a stark contrast from January, when Tedrowe enthusiastically explained how she?d spent the past 18 months spearheading an effort to secure funding and pull together a range of educators from around the area to get the Greater Madison Writing Project up and running as the newest member of the National Writing Project.