Voices: Exploring the Past & Imagining the Future
The Stockton Center at Spring Grove in Flint, Michigan, sponsored the creation of resources for teachers and students to study local histories in partnership with The University of Michigan-Flint and Oakland-Flint Writing Project.
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Oakland-Flint Writing Project, located at the University of Michigan-Flint, is an affiliate of the National Writing Project. NWP created a national community of practice to support writing project sites engaged in the study and design of resources for Building a More Perfect Union, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and funded by the CARES Act, which provided funding for pandemic recovery. The grant has allowed us to form partnerships with multiple organizations and schools: The Stockton Center at Spring Grove, University of Michigan—Flint, and Atherton, Beecher, Flint, Clarkston, and Oak Park School Districts.
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