Ideas for Sharing Poetry This week we have several special blog posts we’d like to share. This means we’ll miss posting a few of our daily suggestions for using poetry.  To make up for the gaps in the week ahead,...

Poems that teachers love The “Teaching with Heart, Fire & Poetry” website takes its inspiration, approach and focus from Teaching with Heart, Leading from Within, and Teaching with Fire. In these books, teachers and other leaders, through their reflections on...

In Leading from Within, the contributors come from a wide range of professions including business, medicine, education, nonprofits, law, politics, science,  government, and religion. We often found that no matter the profession, the insights apply to all – so we’ll...

Using Poetry to Open Meetings: In Teaching with Fire, Several teachers shared how poetry can help to open meetings or create a positive atmosphere for group work. Angela Peery wrote: “When I conduct meetings of an English department at a...

Using Poetry with Each Other From Teaching with Fire, here’s a description of how using poetry can expand and deepen conversations. Intermixing poetry into faculty meetings, school discussions, and other forums can enhance and expand the quality and depth of...

We missed posting a suggestion yesterday. So we’re posting two today from Teaching with Heart  — under the category: Post Poetry Everywhere: At Home, in the Office, on Desks, on the Wall… Using Poetry: Suggestion #2 Melissa Madenski, a middle...

In honor of National Poetry Month, we will post daily suggestions for how to use poetry in the classroom and beyond. Here’s our first suggestion – which also seems appropriate for April Fool’s Day! One of the contributors* to Teaching...

How do you use poetry? April is Poetry Month and poetry is sure to be blooming all over! For our part, we’ll be posting daily suggestions for using poetry in the classroom and beyond. If you have any suggestions, please...

Why finding the right metaphor matters. The first day of spring – how better to celebrate the day than with daffodils? Even better, this post introduces a new feature to our blog.  Since 2009, Dennis Huffman, program director of Prince...

Sometimes the first days of March joyously herald the beginning of spring with blue skies, sunshine, and the welcome beginnings of color – crocuses, daffodils, cherry blossoms and more.  But sometimes these days are gray, cold, rainy (or worse) still...