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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.
Wednesday, April 7 – FREE TO ALL!
Speaking and Writing with Shakespeare at the Heart, a Smithsonian American Art Museum + Folger Library Workshop
What if we stepped back as teachers and let students write their own essential questions for this text set? What if we set up a zone of discovery where students made their own insights into what these texts have to say to each other and to our world today? Join Folger Education and the Smithsonian American Art Museum for this April PD. Registration coming soon!
Thursday, April 15 – Teacher Member exclusive!
Macbeth Without Ambition with Dr. Adam Zucker
Join us on Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 8PM ET for what is sure to be a lively lecture. What if we teach Macbeth without ambition? What if we push back against the Shakespearean cliché in an effort to make more room for our voices and the voices of our students? How might we clear some space to see this old, familiar text in new, and newly useful ways?
Saturday, April 24 – FREE TO ALL
Juicy Lesson! Creating a Promptbook for Poet X (or ANY novel!)
Registration coming soon! 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!
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! 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.