Poetry and Brave New Voices
The following is an excerpt from Korina Jackson’s commentary “Poetry and Brave New Voices” (The Council Chronicle online, Spring 2011). …
Poetry Across the Content Areas
Poetry reading, writing and enjoyment don鈥檛 just have to be limited to the English Language Arts classroom. These resources from …
鈥淩eading is Growing Our Readers鈥�
The big box stores are rolling out the pool equipment and sunscreen, even though it鈥檚 still snowing in the Northeast. …
鈥淟iberating Experiences鈥� with Poetry
The following post is an excerpt from Nancy Steineke鈥檚 article 鈥淭alking about Poetry: Teaching Students How to Lead the Discussion鈥� …
Celebrate Poetry throughout April!
Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their …
Poetry’s Hard Work
The following post is an excerpt from an article about poet laureate Charles Wright by聽Trisha Collopy from the March Council …
To Advocate or Not to Advocate
The following blog post was written by 荔枝视频 Policy Analyst Kristen Nielsen and reflects her own views. You can read …
A Community Literacy Project
Literacy education advocacy isn’t always about politics. Sometimes it’s about starting a community literacy project right in your own backyard.聽We …
Providing ALL Students with Opportunities to Learn
What policies in your school, school system, or state support learners with special needs? What about at the federal level? …
Right to Write
Writing is one of the central pillars of developing strong literacy skills, and the 2015 policy platform builds a request …