Innovative lessons plans and ideas for teaching creative writing as well as samples of student writing resulting from the lessons.
Banned book writing prompts.
Banned book writing prompts.
An introduction.
Banned book writing prompts.
Banned book writing prompts.
In praise of listening.
Adventures with Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.”
How the poetry of Robert Hayden and the rap music of Drake can encourage close reading.
The nebulous origins of one student’s pandemic poetry.
Writing collaboratively with kids.
Nurturing perseverance and a sense of exploration.
Using flash fiction to teach personal narrative.
Demystifying and remystifying poetry in the classroom.
Teaching Robert Burleigh’s Hoops.
Reshaping the canon with flash fiction in the creative writing classroom.
How gamifying the writing workshop gets results.
Using a workshop approach with high school writers.
How writing anonymous personal narrative essays transformed a Bronx classroom.
Bill Murray and Ferlinghetti’s “Dog" as an invitation to write new poetry.
How a 17th century Japanese master taught 50 Georgia sophomores the art of contemplative writing and living.
Giving the languages we live with the attention they deserve.
Raising spirits and conjuring magic in the poetry classroom.
A window into The Poetry Studio and the new collection, Another World: Poetry and Art by Young People.
Two high school poetry workshops.