Professional Development

Susan Barber and Corinne Viglietta dive into poetry–poetry by Laurie Ann Guerrero, Mary Wroth, Lucille Clifton, and more trailblazing women poets. Spark the ears, eyes, and minds of your students. Learn how to design learning so that ALL students live inside the language of these extraordinary poems written by trailblazing women.

Get ALL students to turn on their cameras with a sure-fire, student-centered, and easy-to-implement teaching technique that can be used over and over again.

How can any student encounter a speech for the first time and make meaning from it on their own, without any teacher explanation?

How does the Folger Method help students discover and interpret Their Eyes Were Watching God?

What are the most essential, and eye-opening, things any teacher must know about Romeo and Juliet? What are wildly effective approaches to teaching it?

What does it mean to teach Julius Caesar the Folger way? What insights from performance, scholarship, and expert classroom practice can grow your knowledge and your students’ understanding?

What matters most when we teach Othello? How can all students grapple with the language of race, religion, gender, and power?

What does it mean to teach Hamlet the Folger way? Do you have to teach the whole play? What do scholars, teachers, and artists have to say about Hamlet?

How do we help students grapple with race, power, and poetic language? What do student gain by putting Shakespeare in conversation with Poe, Clifton, and today’s social issues?