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Teacher Members enjoy access to two kinds of Folger professional development: upcoming live-streamed webinars full of real-time interaction, and webinars on demand, available for viewing anytime! From practical workshops that let you experience the Folger Method as your students would to provocative conversations with scholars and artists, join us for never-ending learning. Connect with like-minded teachers and the institution that is cheering you all on.
June 27 – July 16, 2021
Teaching Shakespeare Institute 2021: Shakespeare and the Making of America
In this three-week virtual summer institute (June 27 – July 16, 2021) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 25 middle and high school teachers immerse themselves into the hold that Shakespeare and early America have had and continue to have on each other–with full attention to the roles that indigenous, Black, brown and Latinx people play during this slice of history.
July 19-23, 2021
Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race
Join Folger Education July 19-23, 2021 for a professional learning experience unlike any other, no matter which Shakespeare play you teach. Help students use their own minds and voices—and the power of the humanities—as a force for good. Teach Shakespeare for a changed world.
Take a deep dive into the most effective method for teaching and learning any complex text.
Trailblazing Women Poets You’re Probably Not Teaching–And Practical Strategies for Teaching Them Now
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.
Meet the artists behind visionary productions.
Juicy Lesson! Creating a Promptbook for Poet X (or ANY novel!)
Are you thinking about teaching, Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo’s emotionally piercing story about an Afro-Latina heroine? Join FolgerED for the simple instructions you need to get students doing rigorous literary interpretation and evaluation–all without you!
Juicy Lesson! Paired Texts: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing 2.1
Get students thinking deeply about control and power by pairing soliloquies in two plays: August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Walk through the what, how, and why of this paired text lesson with the teacher who created it: Amber Phelps, Baltimore City College (MD).
Juicy Lesson! Choral Reading Imtiaz Dharker’s “The Trick” and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43
Zoom in on a Folger Teaching lesson plan that will amaze your students and you! Walk through the what, how, and why of this paired text lesson with the teachers who created it: Dr. Deborah Gascon, Dutch Fork (SC) High School, and Corinne Viglietta, Folger Education. Learn how to let these two poems talk to each other—and how to get your students talking back to both of them.