Our #OpenWrite Host Barb Edler has taught English for the last forty years in Iowa, the last thirty in Keokuk where she encouraged students to find their own voice while taking risks, coaching speech participants, and supporting NHD competitors. During the last few years of …
Our #OpenWrite Host Barb Edler has taught English for the last forty years in Iowa, the last thirty in Keokuk where she encouraged students to find their own voice while taking risks, coaching speech participants, and supporting NHD competitors. During the last few years of …
Our #OpenWrite Host Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is author of several children’s books including Write! Write! Write! (Boyds Mills/Kane), With My Hands (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the forthcoming That Missing Feeling (Magination). Also author of the professional book Poems Are Teachers (Heinemann), Amy has taught writing …
Our #OpenWrite Host Andy Schoenborn is an award-winning author and high school English teacher in Michigan at Mt. Pleasant Public Schools. He focuses his work on progressive literacy methods including student-centered critical thinking, digital collaboration, and professional development. He is a co-facilitator of the monthly …
Our #OpenWrite Host Andy Schoenborn is an award-winning author and high school English teacher in Michigan at Mt. Pleasant Public Schools. He focuses his work on progressive literacy methods including student-centered critical thinking, digital collaboration, and professional development. He is a co-facilitator of the monthly …
Our #OpenWrite Host Emily lives in San Diego, California where she teaches at San Diego Global Vision Academy. She serves as a teacher leader at her site, creating and presenting professional development for the teaching team. Emily is also a fellow and teacher consultant with …
Our #OpenWrite Host Emily lives in San Diego, California where she teaches at San Diego Global Vision Academy. She serves as a teacher leader at her site, creating and presenting professional development for the teaching team. Emily is also a fellow and teacher consultant with …
Presence, Connection, Listening and Reflection: Considerations for Community Building in Online Teaching by Brooke Eisenbach and Paula Greathouse As schools and districts around the country find themselves leaning towards a hybrid or online approach to education in the coming Fall semester due to COVID-19, it …
Poetry is not only a dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. Audre Lorde Before I was a teacher, I was a …
Brian Glaser has written two books of poems, All the Hills and The Sacred Heart. He has also published many essays on poetry and poetics, and he teaches English at Chapman University in Orange, California. Inspiration I find inspiration in this description of the form …