How does teaching occur at that nexus of storytelling, performance and art?
May 2, 2024
Join host Liz Prather and guest Willeena Booker as they explore the transformative potential of writing as a tool for healing and social justice.
April 25, 2024
Wille Carver and Liz Prather explore how sharing personal narratives can pave the path to healing and advocacy.
April 18, 2024
Join Georgia Heard, Naomi Shihab Nye, and guests in a live virtual interview hosted by Zoë Ryder White in celebration of Awakening the Heart 2e.
March 29, 2024
This week on the podcast, Georgia Heard talks about teaching poetry today.
January 25, 2024
How do you approach essay, poetry, book clubs, and digital composition? If we reimagine our approach we can open the door to more engaged and challenging learning.
January 2, 2024
Read-aloud time is an opportunity to mentor children in the mindset, habits, and strategies of proficient readers.
June 23, 2023
Provide time to find poems, time to read them, time to hear them, and time to reflect on the poem through talking, writing, and drawing.
August 12, 2022
Participating in this Poetry Slam led Ralph Fletcher to revise his thinking. There is definitely a place for big, splashy events that celebrate many writers at one time.
May 23, 2022
October 21, 2021
Poetry can be a great teacher, and in teaching, it is imperative to speak to the multiple experiences and languages in a class.
May 14, 2020
Carol Jago, author of The Book In Question, shares a lesson that invites students to reflect upon the changes they are experiencing during the Coronavirus pandemic.
April 24, 2020
Heart maps help students explore and process feelings. Included are heart mapping at home activities and videos from Georgia Heard.
With all that poetry does for us we wanted to quietly celebrate Poetry Month by re-sharing this collection of books that provide support for teaching and learning through poetry.
April 10, 2020
Beginning with poems, we can teach students to recognize craft and deepen their understanding of it across genres and beyond specific assignments.
November 9, 2018
In this video, Amy VanDerwater explains that if we are able to harness a love of poetry and use it as a way to demonstrate writing techniques across genres, students gain a better understanding of writing overall.
March 29, 2018
Poetry is something that is happening now, everywhere, and we need to bring it into the classroom. In Poems Are Teachers, Amy introduces the skills and techniques involved in writing a poem and how it connects to writing across all genres.
March 16, 2018
Today on the Heinemann Podcast, authors Mark Lubkowitz, Amy VanDerwater and Valerie Bang-Jensen. What are crosscutting concepts?
March 8, 2018