Nancy Holmes wins national teaching award

April 29, 2015

Creative Writing Associate Professor Nancy Holmes

Creative Writing Associate Professor Nancy Holmes

Innovative community programming has won Creative Writing Associate Professor Nancy Holmes the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs’ 2015 Robert Kroetsch Teaching Award.

Holmes is recognized for Dig Your Neighbourhood (DYN), a project of the Department of Creative Studies, where students create a package of art for a Kelowna neighbourhood which is then distributed by the Welcome Wagon Ltd.

“The Dig Your Neighbourhood Project is exciting, valuable, full of story, that spans classrooms across semesters. We particularly enjoy that you partner with the Welcome Wagon and use their community welcome as a way to connect residents with the stories that surround the spaces they live in and share,” judges said in announcing the award.

The 2015 Dig Your Neighbourhood project was launched in early April in Kelowna’s Mission community. Previous DYN endeavours have taken place in the North Kelowna and Rutland neighbourhoods.

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5 responses to “Nancy Holmes wins national teaching award”

  1. Donna Duke May 3, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    Congratulations Nancy. So well deserved for all of your hard work and dedication to the beautifully creative DYN projects.

  2. Gareth Jones May 4, 2015 at 10:09 pm

    Terrific! You certainly highlight the ‘creative’ aspect of teaching and learning through DYN.

  3. Rehan Sadiq May 8, 2015 at 8:23 am

    Congratulations Nancy.

    RS

  4. Rena Warren June 30, 2015 at 12:39 pm

    Most well deserved. Well done Nancy.

  5. Karis Shearer June 30, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    Congratulations, Nancy! So very well deserved.