Welcome to Day 5 of the September Open Write. Deepest gratitude to our poetry hosts: Stacey Joy, Barb Edler, and Glenda Funk. If you have written with us before, welcome back. If you are joining us for the first time, you are in the kind, …
How to Triumph
Host Barbara Edler taught English Language Arts, Speech & Drama, and TAG students for forty-two and a half years. Although she misses the classroom, she keeps busy as The Keokuk Art Center’s Executive Director where she enjoys planning artistic endeavors and hosting artist receptions. She …
For the Love of Words
Host Barbara Edler taught English Language Arts, Speech & Drama, and TAG students for forty-two and a half years. Although she misses the classroom, she keeps busy as The Keokuk Art Center’s Executive Director where she enjoys planning artistic endeavors and hosting artist receptions. She …
There’s a Diamond in My Soup: Diamonte Poems
Our Host Stacey L. Joy is a National Board Certified Teacher with 38 years of teaching in the elementary classroom. Teaching her Joyteam scholars the power of knowledge, self-advocacy and justice are at the core of her practice. Stacey is a poetry lover, a creator …
Recuerdos de Comida y Amor / Memories of Food and Love
Our Host Stacey L. Joy is a National Board Certified Teacher with 38 years of teaching in the elementary classroom. Teaching her Joyteam scholars the power of knowledge, self-advocacy and justice are at the core of her practice. Stacey is a poetry lover, a creator …
From Picture Books to Profound Insights: The Power of Storytime in High School
From Picture Books to Profound Insights: The Power of Storytime in High School by Kyri Hester It’s Friday, I’m sitting in my special chair at the front of the class, picture book in hand, as my students stare transfixed. We take time to look at …
Building Relationships to Discover Reading Identity
Building Relationships to Discover Reading Identity by Kimberly H. Johnson, Ed.D. When I looped up from teaching primary and elementary students to teaching middle and high school students, I felt a gut punch when I discovered students’ reluctance to read in secondary grades. Young children, …
Over the Bridge: Using Phone Calls to Connect Students’ Worlds
Over the Bridge: Using Phone Calls to Connect Students’ Worlds by Brenda Moreno Early this summer, I visited the Chicago Botanic Garden. As I made my way from one garden to the next, I came across a sign that reminded guests that bridges symbolically link …
Self-Perception: Concrete Poetry
A very special thank you to our August Open Write hosts: Denise Krebs, Gayle Sands, Wendy Everard, Scott McCloskey, and Ashlyn O’Rourke. We so appreciate your generosity of time and compassion in creating these writing prompts and attending to our lines and stanzas these past …
Embodying Art
Scott, a teacher from Michigan, has been playing with AI to turn photos into paintings and is, currently, underwhelmed with his results. Inspiration Somebody more mathematically astute than me said a picture is worth a thousand words. I’d wager they didn’t see the above picture. …