TweetPoetry and the Genuine: Now I Become Myself What might happen if we “quiet our need to steer the plot”?   Or think about the cost of not saying “I am......

TweetSince the moment my friendship with Lucille began in 1989, I feel as if almost everything I’ve learned about life and love and being human (in this both wondrous and......

Tweet Back in April for Poetry Month, Bill Murray was asked to share his favorite poems for Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine.   Murray chose Lucille Clifton’s “What the Mirror Said” as......

Tweet Lucille Clifton believed in the liberating possibilities of learning – and she treasured the schools and teachers who invited and nurtured it. Her personal commitment to her students was unwavering......

Tweet             the river between us in the river that your father fished my father was baptized.    it was their hunger that defined them, one,......

TweetFor our second post in the “Week of Lucille Clifton” — here is Kathleen Glaser’s reflections on Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats” from Teaching with Heart.        ......

TweetToday is the anniversary of Lucille Clifton’s birthday.  She was a remarkable woman and poet. Though she is no longer with us, her poetry still speaks to us. Throughout the......

TweetHere are two great ideas for celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day. In Teaching with Heart, Jovan Miles, a high school math coach, shared how he shares poems in his......

TweetCelebrating Poetry On her blog, My Head is Full of Books, Anne Bennett, a school librarian, posted a lot of terrific ideas for celebrating and using poetry (see below). Fortunately......

TweetLeading from Within and Flawless Leadership: As we mentioned last week, we’re going to use #Throwback Thursdays to re-introduce or bring to light something new about Teaching with Heart, Leading......