Wannetta's View
Awakening the Silent Voice
By: Wannetta Hartman Published on: 12/02/2025Ohio Writing Project gave me voice. I was born to speak, but as I grew up, I learned quickly to speak only when spoken to. I remember that summer of 1990 when I sat nervously in our OWP circle for the first time. I sat there in fear of sharing my writing. Despite my 38 years of life, I had not overcome my childhood shyness and the idea “never talk to strangers.”
My First Year of Teaching
By: Wannetta Hartman Published on: 18/06/2020Education consumed a large part of my life. Though I am retired, memories surround me like a blanket that gives me comfort. Memories of my first year have lingered the longest. I guess firsts often do. I wasn’t a young first-year teacher. I waited for the realization that my children would someday find lives of their own. I feared that I would miss them so much that I might go crazy, therefore, I did the crazy thing first and became a teacher.
Rethinking Common Core Standards
By: Wannetta Hartman Published on: 20/08/2014When I pick up the daily newspaper and read about the discontent with the New Common Core Standards, I have to ask myself, how many of the objectors have actually read the Common Core Standards? How many of those opposing a set of standards that have been adopted in Ohio since June 2010 took time to sit in on team meetings with teachers and their colleagues?
Writing to Learn
By: Wannetta Hartman Published on: 06/11/2011Like many of you, writing is a passion for me, yet, I hesitate to take this first step to have my words in print. I wonder what I might have to say that would interest others who share this space?
