Very captivating. It reflects the passion of a teacher towards her students and stimulated them to enrich their passion for learning many languages, especially their mother and grandmother's tong...
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Magazine is pleased to share the 2022 Bechtel Prize winning essay, Multilingual Approaches Toward English Prose, by Shilpi Suneja. In the essay, Suneja describes a writing activity with her stud...
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help you notice where your language might be obscure or confusing. This strategy can also help you stay surprised in your own writing process. Maybe some words or phrases that you didn’t thi...
Thank you. This is Inspiring and educative.
I am so happy to see this here! I love the Cyclops Wearing Flip-Flops and this looks like a fun and magical way to get young poetic minds moving. Great lesson idea!
Joanna rocks!
I love the idea of analyzing a poem through spacing and therefore absence, and the concept of “13 ways into a poem”—I can’t wait to try this with my students!
This article was a wonderfully read. Two creative people sharing ideas and their history in the arts is jut what I needed this evening. The open page where anything can happen, this is what I alw...
Posted on January 27, 2022 by Soodabeh The Map as Metaphor: Poetic Cartographies in the Virtual Classroom
Absolutely fantastic article. Your story is inspiring. I work with HS students in a counseling capacity. I love the possibility of depth that students will enter through these essays ?
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2. Teachers & Writers Magazine / The One-Sentence Poem …
Thank you for your lesson plans. I am a 74 year-old retired teacher. I taught English and Spanish (mostly). I had a wonderful high school teacher who introduced us to ee cummings. I enjoyed readi...
Today I was looking for poetry by Jordan Clary and found this narrative she wrote in 2016. Jordan was taken from us much too young, she is missed.
“Knowledge That Speaks In Difficult Times” — in Teachers & Writers Magazine:https://teachersandwritersmagazine.org/knowledge-that-speaks-in-difficult-times-an-interview-with-sh…
responding to the writing prompt “I Remember…” with a brief cherished memo (read more on the inspiration for this prompt).
Paola you've restored a little bit of my confidence in modern education. If only the rest of our teachers were more like you.
High school poetry in the age of Zoom.
This is beautiful. I love how you created a safe place for your students and inspired them. Your students are blessed to have you. Loved your student's poems as well. Found you on Longreads.
Two very beautiful eulogies of two very beautiful poets who more than deserve all the praise and plaudits we can gather to shower on them. True pilgrims of the word made poetry. May it rain flowe...
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These poems are fantastic! And this style of teaching is full of humanity and love. Thank you!
As I read this I started smiling, then cheering, then more smiling. As a teacher of English and American History of many, many years it makes me happy to read about a teacher who exemplifies what...
During this period of remote learning during the pandemic, poet and educator Paola Capó-García decided to reimagine her senior English class into a more immersive and focused eight-week poetr...
Empathy and the Persona Poem A persona poem is written from another person’s perspective and can be a powerful way to teach empathy. This activity works well in either language arts or history...
(27). As mentioned earlier, this is one of the most important values of a radical librarian. In an interview with Michelle Chan, a cataloguer at New York University, she talks about her struggle...
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