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#verselove Ethical ELA

Day 28 of 30: #verselove with Susie Morice

Susie Morice spent 30 years in the public school classrooms in the St. Louis, Missouri area.  Long a Gateway Writing Project and Missouri Writing Project veteran, Susie loves what the National Writing Project has done for ELA teachers. Since retiring, Susie worked with professional development …

#verselove Ethical ELA

Day 24 of 30: #verselove with Emily Yamasaki

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 the San Diego …

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Day 15 of 30: #verselove with Margaret Simon

Margaret Simon lives on the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana.  Margaret has been an elementary school teacher for 32 years, most recently gifted ELA.  She renewed her National Board Certification in 2019. Her first book of children’s poetry, Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the …

Padma Venkatraman on Ethical ELA

Day 14 of 30: #verselove with Padma Venkatraman

Today’s poetry celebration comes from Padma Venkatraman is the author of four award-winning, critically acclaimed novels: A TIME TO DANCE, ISLAND’S END and CLIMBING THE STAIRS, and THE BRIDGE HOME. All were released to three or more starred reviews (accruing a total of 12 starred …

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Day 12 of 30: #verselove with Stefani Boutelier

Stefani Boutelier, Ph.D. is an associate professor of education at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI. Most of her K-12 teaching was at the secondary level in Southern California. She has published work in both academic and creative genres. She teaches graduate research courses, literacy …

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Day 11 of 30: #verselove with Kate Currie

Kate Currie currently lives in South Carolina where she splits her time between teaching high school English, chairing the English department and working as an Associate Athletic Director. She is a “Love of Teaching” award recipient and has a passion for building inclusive and relevant …

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Day 7 of 30: #verselove with Gayle Sands

Gayle Sands started teaching middle school English as a second career at 42.  She taught ELA for 25 years, and is now enjoying a a stint as reading specialist.  She had a very “interesting” (aka challenging) household with a messy husband, three (now grown) children, …

Day 6 of 30: #verselove with K.A. Holt

Kari Anne Holt is the award-winning author of many middle grade novels in verse including Redwood & Ponytail, Knockout, House Arrest, and Rhyme Schemer. She is also the other of several middle grade fantasy and sci-fi novels, as well as the picture book, I Wonder, …

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Day 3 of 30: #verselove with Glenda Funk

Inspiration Etheree Taylor Armstong, an Arkansas poet, created a simple poetic form called appropriately Etheree. An etheree consists of ten lines with each line’s syllabication increasing by one. Line 1 begins with one syllable, line two has two syllables, line three has three syllables, etc. …

5-Day Writing Challenge August

August: 5/5-Day Writing Challenge

Our next 5-day challenge begins on September 16th. Please invite friends and colleagues to join us by sharing this form. Thank you for sharing this writing space with us this month! Inspiration A Three Elements poem has just that- three elements that must appear in …