It seems like everyone takes tests To ascertain their knowledge You take a test to graduate And one to go to college There's tests for teachers, doctors, lawyers Hairdressers and truckers But — what a ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence. The class I am ...

While literature is a backbone of high school curriculum, poetry might get short shrift. Not in Tiffany Wolf’s classroom. The longtime Cheyenne Mountain Junior High School teacher likes to stuff a ...

Nobody at the Favorite Poem Project’s Summer Poetry Institute is preaching or arguing about the importance of teaching poetry in school. Nobody has to. Teachers have come from 13 states to spend the ...

CHESTER TWP. – A decade into her transition, Kerri Nicole McCaffrey is going on 12 years teaching in Mendham, and releasing her third book of poems. A fifth grade language arts teacher at Mountain ...

Sister Anne Higgins is an educator who practices what she teaches. The Mount St. Mary's University teacher leads classes in English, theology and poetry. As a member of the Daughters of Charity, she ...

Poets and alumni will perform at a May 22 show at Pioneer High School to honor retiring teacher Jeff Kass and support ...

A Corpus Christi teacher and Gulf War veteran is receiving national recognition for turning his military experiences into ...

Her story is more along the lines of the Spiderman saga. A bite from the writing bug in seventh grade transformed her into the lifelong creative she is today. “(My teacher) was trying to teach us how ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry Month!

Peter Kahn has taught English and spoken word poetry to thousands of students at Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School since 1994. In collaboration with his current and former students, Kahn ...