Topic: Poetry

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. 

Beginning with poems, we can teach students to recognize craft and deepen their understanding of it across genres and beyond specific assignments.

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.

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.

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, authors Mark Lubkowitz, Amy VanDerwater and Valerie Bang-Jensen. What are crosscutting concepts?

In her new book, VanDerwater argues that poems should be the backbone of writing instruction, instead of being swept under the carpet as an afterthought.

When we write, we nudge change. How can we be helping students bring beliefs into writing? Here are some resources to get you started.

As if the wealth of Amy’s own writing and teaching ideas were not enough by themselves, she gifts us with a trove of poems by our favorite children’s poets.

Rozlyn Linder on Lee Heffernan's new Back and Forth

Heinemann Fellow Tiana Silvas on Fostering Empathy and Understanding Among Students

Aligning Teacher and Admin Goals to Get The Most Out of Evaluation

This is What Segregation Looks Like, and How Heinemann Fellow Dr. Kim Parker is Working to Change It

How Can The Writing Strategies Book Help With Your Own Writing Goals This Summer?

Spring 2017 round up of Heinemann podcasts.

Teacher Appreciation: Georgia Heard Reflects on The Great Advice of a Teacher

5 Ways to Use Liberation Literacies in Your Classroom: Practical Strategies

Liberation Literacies: Teaching for Social Justice

When you create heart map playlists with students, they access moments that might become poems or memoirs or even the anchors to essays they didn’t realize were inside of them, waiting to be written.