@melaltersmith.bsky.social and #TeachLivingPoets helped me realize how collaborative, insightful, and meaningful poetry can be in EVERY classroom. So grateful for the lesson ideas, guidance, and those fleeting Twitter chats! This post reminded me of that work, and has some great poetry linked!

AI is Iago and we're all Roderigos

In Boston at the national AP Annual Conference to present a session today: “Preparing Students for Success: Classroom Practices & Test-Taking Strategies for the Digital AP English Exam” and to lead a one-day workshop for new AP teachers on Saturday. The first stop on my whirlwind work tour of July.

I’m leading 3 #aplit workshops this summer 👩🏼‍🏫 APAC one-day workshop (in person) in Boston 7/19 eventreg.collegeboard.org/event/29cea9... 👩‍💻UNCCharlotte online APSI July 21-25 cstem.charlotte.edu/pk-20-educat... 👩🏼‍🏫 Silver State APSI (in person) in Las Vegas July 28-31 sites.google.com/a/nv.ccsd.ne...

🥹 #TeachLivingPoets Thank you! 💕

of course my favorite poem about the Super Bowl is actually about mortality and the absurdity of being alive

4.) celebrate work you love. It's great to post about your own work, but you should also engage with and celebrate the work of you peers. If you don't have the time to make a post about everything you love, repost other posts about that writing. It all helps!

I shared this article in Wisconsin last week... AMAZING, right? I listen to several books a month now because of my commute to campus, and I've come to love being read to. How about you? #booklove

#TeachLivingPoets has a great lesson for it teachlivingpoets.com/2023/11/30/e...

Woop woop! #teachlivingpoets

Melissa has the best ideas. Also check out her book and the rest of her blog😀 amzn.to/3ZGPvFx

@melaltersmith.bsky.social has an amazing road course activity that she does with this poem: teachlivingpoets.com/2023/11/30/e...

New #teachlivingpoets lesson up for teaching Amanda Gorman’s poem inspired by the Wicked movie! Check it out: teachlivingpoets.com/2024/12/01/d...

Can’t miss presentation for those attending #ncte24

Tomorrow! #TeachLivingPoets #NCTE24 @jessycamathews.bsky.social @joelrgarza.bsky.social & Cleveland Winfield

For all of you that #TeachLivingPoets, check out this dang TikTok that @hanvanderhart.bsky.social made for my students, explaining the function, tradition, complexity, & impact of volta & disjunction in the way that only they can! 🥹🫶🏽🤔 Follow them & buy their books! www.tiktok.com/@bookishbeas...

💔We miss EduTwitter very much. 💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab 🙏Tag & invite other edufriends! We can figure this app our together. While we (re)build community.

A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now. I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.

Imagine Julie Andrews singing “My Favorite Things” 🎶 #TeachLivingPoets

In honor of @melaltersmith.bsky.social joining us I would love to build a thread of poetry that folks love to use in High School classes. I finally have a group that want to spend time reading, writing, and performing haha #LiftingLiteracy 📌 Share here and follow the thread 👍 #iteachenglish

#Teachlivingpoets is on Blue Sky!