Teachers & Writers Collaborative
New! First Do No Harm: Helping Students Write About Difficult Topics
by Helen Frost
Grades: All
Genre: All
New! Teaching Poetry as a Part of Real Life
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Grades: All
Genre: All
Teaching by Listening
Los Angeles poet, novelist, and visual artist Will Alexander explains how he doesn’t come to a classroom with pre-fabricated writing assignments, but allows the students’ personalities and needs to dictate the assignments he gives.
What I See in Children’s Writing
Jack Collum uses children’s writing created in his residency at a school in Manhattan to explore what is valuable and necessary about the art they have produced.
Grades: 2-5
Genre: Poetry
Computers in the Classroom
Poet Jordan Davis describes how he has used computer technologies to teach imaginative writing.
Free Writing Jenny Robinson Hartley’s ecstatic account of her introduction to free writing.
Childhood, Poetry, Magic, and ‘Magic’
Excerpts from a 2002 talk given by Quincy Troupe at Teachers & Writers Collaborative to a group of teaching artists.
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