Brett Vogelsinger

I start class with a poem every day, and I think your work, as I read through your other poems too, needs to be in my rotation!

I knew you would! The ideas are absolutely applicable in high school 🙂

Yea! I feel the same!

This is a perfect piece for NYT Learning Network. Invite student and teacher voices!

@kschulten.bsky.social

Wow this is powerful! Thanks for sharing.

You change your school by talking to your students.

Try coming to our space with AI and you'll find students resentful of a half-baked technology trying to destroy their education.

The instances of students trying to cheat have plummeted over the past year.

Kids are smart. Talk to them.

Yes, it's exactly what we can all strive for! Refreshing to read it so clearly laid out in longform.

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Everything you're saying is the foundation of my writing on this topic! Yes!

I think we can help so many kids if we can help teachers to think this way :)

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I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.

I feel like this is the article I've been waiting for!

If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

This sign is coming soon to my high school for program planning season 🙂

I truly believe it’s a nine-week elective on a block schedule that every student should take. Explore the other side of writing in high school!

Sadly, no. But I'll be there in Philly. Looking forward to it!

Thank you!

7: The Giver
8: The Outsiders
9: Romeo and Juliet and TKAM
10: The Crucible
11: Macbeth
12: Things Fall Apart

9-12 are in curriculum revision now though, so I'm not sure how these will shift.

Lang and Lit in 11 and 12 do not have to abide by those last two.

Amazing! Glad you had a great time, and can't wait to see you next year.

Yes, that is an interesting question! Our district has at least one title per grade level like this. I do like that when I'm teaching a concept, I can refer back to an earlier example and most kids remember it, i.e. when teaching allusion: "Remember "Stay gold, Ponyboy" from eighth grade?"

It’s always such a balance between teacher preference, student choice, and those texts we ask all students in a grade to read, right?

If you could choose any Shakespeare play to teach to freshmen, which would you want to try first and why? 🤔

Nice idea! And in general, English classes could use more literary levity. I use Austen and Wilde in AP Lit for this reason. Which would be your top choice of Shakespeare comedy for beginners?

Ooh, that's cool! I've never heard of Hamlet taught in ninth. I've taught Othello in AP Lit. In my own education I did R+J, Julius Ceasar, and Macbeth in 9, 10, 11. I feel like Julius Ceasar used to be really popular in schools but not so much anymore.

Yeah, it is pretty traditional. I also felt it was a text in my ten years in 9th grade that got almost 100% buy-in from a mixed crowd of students. My own kids really enjoyed it too. But I'd be curious to hear how other Shakespeare plays go over as well. Have you ever taught R&J in 9th?

Hmmm. Are you saying another would be a better fit? Or that freshman year is the wrong time to introduce the bard?

The word that interests me in the survey is “encounter.” The temptation to teach everything we see in Shakespeare is strong, slowing it down. Could we just watch and talk sometimes?

So happy for you!!

Well this made my day! Thank you, Andrew, for sharing my words, and I hope that these teachers and their students get to enjoy lots of #poetrypauses together🙂
@corwinpress.bsky.social

That's so wonderful! Thank you for sharing the book (and this post!)

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Cover of the book Poetry Pauses by Brett Vogelsinger.

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NCTE is in my town of Philly next year! Proposals open tomorrow…

John Green Doesn’t Want You to Lose the Magic of Your Teenage Self

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So, so good!

Text to Text | ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ and ‘You May Want to Marry My Husband’ (Published 2018)

In 2018, I wrote this @nytimes.com Learning Network piece for teachers using The Fault in Our Stars by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. Today's excellent interview, which I'll post in the first comment, is a piece I'd definitely add!

@kschulten.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/l...

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