Melissa Alter Smith

Same! Those chats always gave me so many great ideas and filled my teacher soul.

🔥Burn up 2025🔥with this #teachlivingpoets lesson by Jessica Salfia

teachlivingpoets.com/2020/01/14/b...

@melaltersmith.bsky.social and #TeachLivingPoets helped me realize how collaborative, insightful, and meaningful poetry can be in EVERY classroom. So grateful for the lesson ideas, guidance, and those fleeting Twitter chats! This post reminded me of that work, and has some great poetry linked!

AI is Iago and we're all Roderigos

In Boston at the national AP Annual Conference to present a session today: “Preparing Students for Success: Classroom Practices & Test-Taking Strategies for the Digital AP English Exam” and to lead a one-day workshop for new AP teachers on Saturday. The first stop on my whirlwind work tour of July.

I’m leading 3 #aplit workshops this summer

👩🏼‍🏫 APAC one-day workshop (in person) in Boston 7/19 eventreg.collegeboard.org/event/29cea9...

👩‍💻UNCCharlotte online APSI July 21-25 cstem.charlotte.edu/pk-20-educat...

👩🏼‍🏫 Silver State APSI (in person) in Las Vegas July 28-31 sites.google.com/a/nv.ccsd.ne...

🥹 #TeachLivingPoets
Thank you! 💕

Super Bowl by Mary Ruefle Who won? I said. The game’s tomorrow, he said. And I became the snail I always was, crossing the field in my helmet. But I’d given it my all, while the plane arced on its way to a landing, when I overheard the woman behind us say I was gathering wildflowers to make a wreath to lay on my mother’s grave when my son fell off a mountain in Italy and I felt such joy over the unknown outcome of her words I was not ashamed, for I can feign interest in the world, just as she in that great green meadow must have.

of course my favorite poem about the Super Bowl is actually about mortality and the absurdity of being alive

4.) celebrate work you love. It's great to post about your own work, but you should also engage with and celebrate the work of you peers. If you don't have the time to make a post about everything you love, repost other posts about that writing. It all helps!

Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn’t Matter Stories stimulate the brain in the same way, regardless of whether they're read or heard.

I shared this article in Wisconsin last week... AMAZING, right? I listen to several books a month now because of my commute to campus, and I've come to love being read to. How about you? #booklove

#TeachLivingPoets

Exploring structure in Hanif Abdurraqib’s poem “It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off” This lesson will get your students up and moving!

#TeachLivingPoets has a great lesson for it

teachlivingpoets.com/2023/11/30/e...

Woop woop! #teachlivingpoets

Teach Living Poets Amazon.com: Teach Living Poets: 9780814152614: Illich, Lindsay, Smith, Melissa Alter: Books

Melissa has the best ideas. Also check out her book and the rest of her blog😀 amzn.to/3ZGPvFx

Exploring structure in Hanif Abdurraqib’s poem “It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off” This lesson will get your students up and moving!

@melaltersmith.bsky.social has an amazing road course activity that she does with this poem: teachlivingpoets.com/2023/11/30/e...

Those last line are shiver lines. They give me the poetry goose bumps! 🔥🔥🔥

Dana! Thank you so much for the kind words! I do love this activity so much so thank you for sharing it. ☺️

New #teachlivingpoets lesson up for teaching Amanda Gorman’s poem inspired by the Wicked movie! Check it out: teachlivingpoets.com/2024/12/01/d...

Thank you for sharing! 🙏💕

Can’t miss presentation for those attending #ncte24

Tomorrow! #TeachLivingPoets #NCTE24 @jessycamathews.bsky.social @joelrgarza.bsky.social & Cleveland Winfield

Why are our sessions at the same time?! Ughhhhh 😫

Volta Vs. Disjunction! This one goes out to Joel Garza’s class! 📚💙 These writers asked the best questions! #poetrytok #writers #classvisits #writersoftiktok TikTok video by HanVHart

For all of you that #TeachLivingPoets, check out this dang TikTok that @hanvanderhart.bsky.social made for my students, explaining the function, tradition, complexity, & impact of volta & disjunction in the way that only they can! 🥹🫶🏽🤔

Follow them & buy their books!

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💔We miss EduTwitter very much.

💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab

🙏Tag & invite other edufriends!

We can figure this app our together.
While we (re)build community.

A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now.

I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.

Imagine Julie Andrews singing “My Favorite Things” 🎶 #TeachLivingPoets

In honor of @melaltersmith.bsky.social joining us I would love to build a thread of poetry that folks love to use in High School classes. I finally have a group that want to spend time reading, writing, and performing haha #LiftingLiteracy 📌 Share here and follow the thread 👍 #iteachenglish

Ooo love this idea, Brent! I’ll start with my favorite poetry lesson/activity lately with a Hanif Abdurraqib poem “It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off”

Poem: poets.org/poem/it-mayb...

Lesson: docs.google.com/presentation...

#Teachlivingpoets is on Blue Sky!