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.

Brianne Johnson
Graduate Assistant & OWP Teacher-Consultant | okwp@ou.edu

Bio: Brianne Johnson has completed 17 years as a classroom teacher, teaching grades 6-12. She currently is a high school English teacher at Bethel High School in Shawnee, OK and teaches AP Literature and Honors English 10. She has accumulated numerous honors in her teaching career, including the Professional Oklahoma Educators Merit Finalist 2017-2018, Bethel Public Schools District Teacher of the Year 2017-2018, and Sand Springs Public School Teacher of the Year Top 5 Finalist 2007-2008. She earned her M.S. in Library Media in 2007 from Oklahoma State University. And in 2022, she began her journey as a doctoral student studying English Education at the University of Oklahoma. In the fall of 2023, she will be a full-time graduate assistant, student, and part-time high school English teacher. She attended the OWP Summer Institute in 2007 and in 2023. 

Throughout her teaching career, she has written grants for over $40,000 to help provide technology, supplies, and furniture for her students, as well as a learning pavilion and other campus upgrades in her current district.