Archive - Your High School Creative Writing Teacher

Writing as Healing: Getting Closer to Yourself

Featuring Author and Teacher Shamari Reid

Mar 29 •

Writing As Healing: Modeling Vulnerability

Featuring Author and Teacher David Rockower

Mar 22 •

Writing As Healing Podcast: Reframing Memories

Featuring songwriter, teacher, and author Barry Lane

Mar 15 •

Writing as Healing Podcast: Observational Journaling and the Power of Poetry

Featuring Stacey Joy, Willeena Booker, and Willie Carver

Mar 7 •

February 2024

Poetry for the Day After the Super Bowl

Isn't it all about victory and defeat anyway?

Feb 12 •

January 2024

Wintering Poetry

Using snow as meditation and inspiration

Jan 19 •

What Is In My Classroom Library?

A list of craft books for the high school creative writing teacher

Jan 12 •

Write The New Year's Revolution

What will you do — right now, this week, this month — to make a better world?

Jan 6 •

December 2023

Maker Space: Invitation to Write a Personal Essay

From Crystal Wilkinson's "Sweet Breath of Another"

Dec 30, 2023 •

Oh My! It’s Fruitcake Weather!

Using “A Christmas Memory” as an Invitation to Write

Dec 12, 2023 •

A Day At The Museum

Using Art as Inspiration for Writing

Dec 1, 2023 •

November 2023

Asking Students to Skate, Fly, and Dig

How taking a class in writing poetry helped me become a better teacher

Nov 17, 2023 •

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