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>> For the last five years, Dr. Randy Bomer has spent his summer vacations on campus working
with Austin area teachers in a collaboration called the Heart of Texas Writing Project.
>> We're a research institution, we try to produce knowledge about teaching and learning
that people all over the world can use, but the way we try to generate that knowledge
is in partnership with teachers and schools right here in the Austin area. We try to create
a community of teachers who think together about new ways of teaching, ways of innovating
their teaching so that they can be more effective with their students.
>> They'll be thinking about the draft that you've been working on and the revisions that
you have been making and we'd be trying to name and get specific about what are those
strategies that you can bring to your kids. >> I've learned to look at the writing process
in a way that allows me to appreciate what my students are doing on a day to day basis
more than what I would have been able to before. >> Sometimes I wrote about the different subject
and then I have fiction [inaudible]. >> There is an energy that you feel the minute
you walk into the room, that's contagious and it's inspiring and you just want to be
there and be part of it. >> But the summer camps aren't exclusive to
teachers. They also serve Austin's youngest writers.
>> They are very energetic kids, very creative and just need an outlet for expressing that.
>> What we're aiming for is for every child to have a sense of voice.
>> Ending the chapter on a happy note instead of a kind of scary [inaudible].
>> Right, [inaudible]. >> Something that I am very much have intimately
connected with my own life because I can remember the moment when the light bulb turned on and,
you know, the ink started flowing and recreating that moment is what I live for.
>> If we can make space where what they say is going to be valued and where their voices
is actually cherished and people are waiting to hear from them, the more I think I've done
my job.