Twenty-four Poets Keep Their Third Eyes Open
This article discusses how teaching artist Matthew Brailas teaches fourth grade students a wide range of literary devices through a fun activity called the “Third Eye Experiment.”
Art of Teaching Writing
Articles, essays, editorials, and meditations on T&W’s mission, “educating the imagination.”
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Remembering Each Room, Each Door, Each Brick: Writing Letters to Home with Refugee Students
Read this article by a teacher who reflects on her years of working with migrant students from Central America on a local farm, doing hands-on learning and English-language education, using T&W poetry writing exercises.
A Students’ Journey Through Literary Submissions
A teacher describes how she encouraged a gifted student to begin publishing their work in a literary journal.
The Writer as Activist
Writers and Teaching Artists came together to answer questions around the writer and educator’s responsibility towards current political movements in the U.S.
Teachers & Writers #BlackLivesMatter Reading List
Collectively, all over the country and world, we are seeing the effects of what happens when we come together in the name of justice. The death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop and so many others has sparked an unprecedented outcry for anti-racist structural change and a complete end to police violence against Black…
Three Words Away a Poem Awaits
Teacher Joanna Fox writes about her experience using typewriters to excite her poetry students and to engage them in generative writing and the power of language.
JIBSERIA: A Garden Mythology
A school garden becomes the inspiration for a writing project that combines myth-making and art. Winner of the 2020 Bechtel Prize for an innovative classroom project.
Thinking Outside the Box: Promoting Family Literacy in Prison
FROM THE ARCHIVES: This article originally appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine, May/June 2006, Volume 37, Issue 5. by Jane Lecroy We have all become familiar with the phrase “thinking outside the box,” used to express creative problem solving, but the expression “thinking outside the classroom” may deserve a place in our lexicon as well. Unique…
Questions Without Answers
By Christian McEwen One summer, I taught a poetry workshop at the Edinburgh Book Festival, working with a mixed group of seven-to-thirteen-year-olds. The classes were held in an open tent with two long trestle tables and a scatter of folding chairs, and our theme was “Questions Without Answers.” I told the children about my brother…
The Decline of Daring
by Marvin Hoffman Marvin Hoffman was an early Director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative, from 1969-71. The photos included here were originally published in Teachers & Writers Magazine volume 4, issues 1 & 2, 1971. Wisdom is an automatic by-product of age. At least that’s what most people believe, but my experience suggests otherwise….