[CBW_Exec] Personal/Professional updates

[Rebecca Mlynarczyk]

Personal and professional update: Feb. 18. 2010



It has been another busy and fulfilling year for me personally and
professionally. I’ll start with the professional. In 2010 two publications
that have been in the works for many years will finally see the light of
day. The first is a piece I began working on in 2005 with two of the
Austrian teachers I worked with in the City College MA program.
It's entitled “The Role of Freewriting in Teachers’ Growth and Development:
Insights from Austria” and appears as a chapter in *Reflective Writing—A Way
to Lifelong Teacher Learning*, available open access on the TESL-EJ site.



The second is the more succinctly titled *Basic Writing* by George Otte and
myself. By the time of CCCC, the book should be available in print from
Parlor Press and online (open access) from the WAC Clearinghouse.



I continue to co-edit *JBW* with my colleague Hope Parisi. We’re
particularly proud of the latest issue (Fall 2009), which features a timely
and provocative piece by Ira Shor entitled "Critical Pedagogy Is Too Big to
Fail," a piece by our own Peter Adams on the impressive results of the ALP
program he has done so much to develop at the Community College of Baltimore
County, and an excerpt from Mike Rose’s latest book *Why School? Reclaiming
Education for All of Us*.



My teaching and administrative work continues to keep me busy and
interested. In the fall I taught developmental reading and writing to
another inspiring group of immigrant students, and this spring I’m working
with doctoral students in a seminar entitled “Controversies in Composition:
Historical Perspectives.”


Now for the personal: the highlight here is our 19-month old granddaughter,
Liberty. She is living up to her name, a little free spirit. Watching her
grow and learn is a source of continuing delight for her parents and
grandparents.

I'm looking forward to seeing all of you in Louisville, where we'll be
together less than a month from now.

Rebecca
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