Articles, essays, editorials, and meditations on T&W’s mission, “educating the imagination.”
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By Sheryl Noethe Teachers & Writers Collaborative is turning 50 years old this fall. 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. In this 50th story, poet Sheryl Noethe writes about becoming a T&W teaching artist and receiving the gift…
By Erika Luckert What is a poem? When I teach poetry, I often begin by asking students what a poem is. Their answers are ones I’ve come to expect: a poem has line breaks. It shows your emotions. It rhymes, or it doesn’t. It has fancy language. It’s hard to understand. Last fall, I began…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Editors note: This article was originally published in Teachers & Writers Magazine 2008. By Jane LeCroy I was in fifth grade when I was introduced to the avant-garde. It was my first experience of e.e. cummings and it was brought to me by Teachers & Writers Collaborative in my classroom at Hilltop Middle School in Nyack, New…