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About Teachers & Writers
MISSION Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) seeks to educate the imagination by offering innovative creative writing programs for students and…
Workshops & Professional Development
Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) provides school-based and after-school writing programs led by professional writers for K-12 students, professional development…
Resources
Books T&W has published resources about the teaching of creative writing for more nearly 50 years. With more…
NY Poetry Out Loud
What is Poetry Out Loud? Poetry Out Loud (POL), an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts and the…
4 Ways of Looking at a Mentor Text: Incidental Comics
by Tricia Ebarvia This article was originally published at movingwriters.org. The school year is winding down—and I find myself thinking more and more of warm poolside days—yet everywhere I turn, rich mentor texts seem to come my way. I’ll find something and think, “Oh, that would have been perfect to use with ____” or “That would have…
50th Stories: To T&W with Love
By Jeffrey Pflaum Teachers & Writers Collaborative will turn 50 years old in fall 2017. To celebrate this milestone, we asked people who have been part of T&W’s work over the last five decades to tell their stories. Jeffrey Pflaum reflects on how T&W books and writers have inspired his own teaching and writing. …
PS 457 Young Leadership Academy/Teachers & Writers Collaborative Partnership Program Snapshot
T&W teaching artists Alba Delia Hernandez and Samantha LoCoco conducted a 20-session residency at PS 457, Young Leadership Academy, in the Bronx with second-grade gifted and talented students. The students learned about figurative language and poetic structure and examined a range of diverse authors such as Sandra Cisneros, Willie Perdomo, Pablo Neruda, Kwame Dawes, and…
Remembering an English Teacher’s Entomology Lesson
by Rich Glowacki The poetry is here, she’d say bidding us drop to all fours in the dirt with her to see connotative subtleties in greens among caterpillar, mantis, and dragonfly wing; she would show how to deftly dissect subtexted hums known to sting and allusions in what June bugs sing, then tell us to take…
50th Stories: Office Space and Chatter
By Nancy Larson Shapiro Teachers & Writers Collaborative is turning 50 years old in 2017. To celebrate this milestone, we asked people who have been part of T&W’s work over the last five decades to tell their stories. Nancy Larson Shapiro, long-time T&W staff director and now chair of the T&W Board of Directors, shares…
Songwriting at VISIONS
By Dave Johnson and Allison Moorer In winter–spring 2017, T&W teaching artists Dave Johnson and Allison Moorer led a series of songwriting workshops for older adults at VISIONS: Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The following lessons introduce students to the fundamentals of songwriting. T&W thanks Aroha Philanthropies for its generous support of our…
Teaching about Racism: Toward a Shared History and Common Language
by Alex Cuff “White cops are racist,” a student said. It was September 2014, and we were discussing Ferguson in my third-period, tenth-grade ELA class. “I hate white people,” another student asserted, holding my gaze. A hush came over my class of 28 students as they studied my face, gauging how I, a white teacher…
PS 188 Kingsbury School/T&W: Partnership Program Snapshot
T&W teaching artist Amina Henry conducted a 20-session poetry residency at PS 188, the Kingsbury School, in Bayside, Queens with third- and fourth-grade gifted and talented classes. Kirsten Chen, who was a T&W editorial associate in 2016–2017, had an email conversation with one of Henry’s classroom teacher partners, Jessica Wingfield, about the program’s impact. Teachers…
Remembering Jack
By Nancy Larson Shapiro With both sadness and a big smile, those of us at T&W who worked with Jack Collom remember him and send condolences to his wife Jennifer Heath and his children and grandchildren. Jack died in early July at the age of 85 at his home in Colorado, where he was an…
50th Stories: Out of the Mouths of Babes
By Linda Winston Teachers & Writers Collaborative is turning 50 years old in fall 2017. To celebrate this milestone, we asked people who have been part of T&W’s work over the last five decades to tell their stories. Former T&W teaching artist Linda Winston remembers hearing, and being inspired by, the unvarnished truth from a…