Experiencing Discovery and Surprise through Poetry
This is an excerpt from Chapter 5, Catching Tigers in Red Weather: Imaginative Writing and Student Choice in High School, by …
Reclaiming the Experience of Poetry
This post was written by NCTE member Kyle Vaughn, author of Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises (NCTE, 2018). Poetry …
Digital Storytelling
This post is written by NCTE member Jennifer Kirsch. Several years ago, in search of a truly meaningful way to …
The Power of Just Shutting Up
This post is written by NCTE member Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, the 2016 Kentucky Teacher of the Year. Last fall, I spent two …
Creative Writing as a Path to Finding One’s Tribe
Those of us who are writers and part of writing communities know well the truth in Clifton’s quote. And in …