Welcome to the Oklahoma Writing Project

Crag Hill
Co-director of the Oklahoma Writing Project | crag.a.hill@ou.edu

Bio: Crag Hill began teaching in the 1990s in the San Francisco Bay Area where he was fortunate, after his second year of teaching English at Berkeley High School, to attend the Bay Area Writing Project Summer Institute. Like thousands of other teachers before and after him, that summer transformed his teaching career.

Hill taught high school English for a total of 18 years in California and Idaho. As an NCTE affiliate leader of the Northwest Council of Teachers of English, he collaborated with the Inland Northwest Writing Project over a ten-year span on annual conferences and other regional professional development for teachers by teachers, work which continued to inform and energize his approaches to learning and teaching. After completing a PhD at the University of Idaho, he taught at Washington State University before taking a position at the University of Oklahoma. A career-long believer in teachers teaching teachers, he is excited to be working with teachers throughout Oklahoma on transforming their writing pedagogy as well as their own practices and identities as writers.

Audra Plummer
Co-director of the Oklahoma Writing Project | owpcodirector@yahoo.com

Bio: Audra Plummer has completed over 20 years in education and working with Oklahoma students. Throughout her career she has taught first, second, fourth and fifth grades. She received her master’s degree in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum with an emphasis in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma. She received National Board Certification in Middle Childhood Generalist in 2004. She accumulated numerous honors throughout her teaching career. She was recognized as a Norman Public School Teacher of the Year Top Five Finalist after her third year of teacher as well as being award the Outstanding Teacher Award sponsored by Lakeshore Learning. Audra has been a finalist for the National “I Teach 2nd” Second Grade Teacher of the Year and received the University of Oklahoma College of Education “Young Educator” Award in 2004. Audra has written grants to fund over $10,000 work of manipulatives, books and computer software for her students. In 2018, Goodnight Norman, a children’s book she co-authored, was published with all proceeds benefiting students in Norman Public Schools. 

Throughout her years of teaching, Audra has acquired over one thousand hours of professional development. She began making professional presentations in 1994 and since that time has presented all over Oklahoma to over 2,500 fellow educators. Audra attended the Oklahoma Writing Project in 1999. Her leadership role in OWP began with being a member of the OWP Board and has expanded to serving on various committees. She has served as an OWP Summer Institute mentor for three years. In 2009, Audra began serving at the OWP Co-Director of Inservice and works to provide quality professional development opportunities to Oklahoma teachers. 

Kacy Price
Graduate Assistant & OWP Teacher-Consultant | kacy.m.price@ou.edu

Bio: Kacy Price is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma pursuing her master’s degree in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum. She currently works as a graduate research assistant, a role which entails a few different responsibilities, one of which includes serving as the graduate assistant for the Oklahoma Writing Project. These opportunities in graduate school have given her the opportunity to become more involved in the community at the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, attend and present at conferences at the local and national level, and engage in research and academic writing. Previously, Kacy taught English Language Arts for five years at U.S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City Public Schools. In her short time teaching, she had the opportunity to work with 9th, 11th, and 12th grade students teaching on-level and honors English Language Arts, Advanced Placement Language and Composition, and served as ELA Department Chair for two years. Kacy received her bachelors in English Education from the University of Oklahoma in 2020. When she is not frantically grading essays, Kacy enjoys reading, playing video games of all kinds, listening to music, and spending time with her partner, Chris, and their tuxedo cat, Spooky. Kacy loves having the opportunity to work with students and teachers and is excited about where her career in education will take her!