During our break from school as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, my two boys and I have been using our morning to complete reading and wri...

Flickr image the from  TED Conference I was fortunate to be able to attend both Eric Johnson's and Sarah Kay's poetry works...

Today is World Poetry Day , which falls each year on the cusp of our National Poetry Month celebration during the month of April. I love...

I need to remember this for the beginning of the year. We began by brainstorming lists of what someone would see upon entering the door to...

Monday marks the beginning of Teacher Appreciation Week, May 4-8, 2015 .  I love the initiative started by the Center for Teaching Quality...

What a beautiful close to National Poetry Month! Blue skies and sunshine looked down on us as we chalked the sidewalks in front of our schoo...

As April's National Poetry Month celebrations draw to a close, my students and I will make sure that the month ends not with a whimpe...

I'm looking forward to Thursday. It's one of my favorite days on the spring calendar - Poem in Your Pocket Day . And this year, my ...

Ogden Nash is echoing in my living room. Just before him, Billy Collins. Rita Dove kicked off our poetic performance this afternoon. While...

My hours at school this week have been filled with poetry. My tenth grade students are pulling ideas from their Writer's Notebooks to po...

It is one of my students' favorite daily writing prompts. Mine, too. Yesterday I came into class with a stack of newspapers in hand. B...

We're deep into poetry.  My creative writing students have played with pantoums and rolled around in ovillenjos. We've explored b...

Much of my lesson planning is done in the shower. Turns out, this is true for quite a few people.  Scott Berkun summarizes some of the resea...

Flickr photograph by Steve Johnson   I began with poetry.  My entry into writing started with rhymed couplets, with Shel Silverstein and...

Not long ago, I lurked as Paul Allison , teacher, writer, blogger, and host of the weekly Teachers Teaching Teachers Hangout , chatted wit...

The last few days have been all about poetry. Early this past week, I was offered the opportunity to attend next weekend's West Chester...