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The Pedagogy of Jack Grapes, Part V: Why Practice Isn’t Enough
To conclude the series on the Pedagogy of Jack Grapes, here’s a topic we ran out of time for at the CPITS Symposium: practicing the process. Grapes draws analogies from the preparations of athletes,...
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Answering Starkey’s Question, Part II: Reading Jollimore’s The Solipsist
“What poets have you been reading?” David Starkey asked the poet-teachers at the Writing Intensive at this year’s CPITS Symposium. What poet-teachers read and how they might bring it into the classroom...
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Current Writing Theory Part II: What Does Student M Want?
In a recent lecture at Pt. Loma Nazarene University, Dr. Andrea Lunsford’s called for a new writing theory, and why not? It’s a new day. We’ve tried No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its older more...
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CPITS Audio Poems on Dublit.com
California Poets in the Schools now has a group on dublit.com where members of the CPITS community can share audio versions of their poetry. Dublit.com is a website that hosts audio versions of...
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Summer Poem
At the end of the school year, it can be hard to keep kids focused on a poetry lesson. But one topic that is easy to get students to think about is summer. Even the youngest students will have a good...
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Books for Teaching Poetry to Kids
Here are books to encourage, inspire, offer insight, and assist in teaching poetry to young people. Call them open doors, maps, invitations, or simply beginning points–it matters not. The wisdom,...
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A Few Good Quotes
I keep a file that is basically a long list of quotes that speak to me for one reason or another. Here is a sampling from those quotes that I like to consider when I think about writing and reading...
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Nurturing Creativity
summer poetry class In teaching poetry to young people, I tend to focus first on generating excitement about reading and writing poems. I design lessons to nurture creativity and open-mindedness about...
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Teach the Poetry of Gratitude
Writing and reading poetry can help students learn how to explore unwieldy ideas, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to approach challenges (like building a sonnet), and how to...
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