Meet Brett
I’m passionate about helping students write with confidence and read voraciously. I teach English class to tenth grade students and AP Literature and Composition students each day in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. For two decades, I taught eighth and ninth grade English. I love talking to teachers about how to make the classroom a meaningful, engaging, creative space for our students and how to reach them in ways that impact them for a lifetime.
“A master teacher — practical and accessible, nuanced and detailed.”
– Joel Garza
THE BOOKS
How can brief pauses for poetry help elevate all of the writing we ask our students to do in class?
Poetry pauses can help students with:
- Brainstorming, organizing, and shaping ideas
- Drafting narrative, argument, and research
- Revising for diction, rhythm, and clarity
- Employing punctuation and grammatical structures for heightened effect.
Move away from the annual poetry unit each spring and toward a more inclusive vision with poems as primary mentors for any writing skill.
How can we help students use Generative AI in their writing process to enhance rather than erode their skills?
Meet the challenges of a new era with:
- Standards-aligned lessons for each stage of the writing process with student exemplars
- Foundational truths about writing from great writers applied in a new context
- Insightful interviews with students and teachers with varied views of AI
- Questions that help shape a healthy approach to generative AI for your classroom, team, or school system
THE BLOG
How can we move the writers we teach?
Each month, Brett publishes a blog post with Moving Writers, a community of teachers obsessed with the question, “How do we go beyond moving the writing our students create and move the writers we teach?”
Some of my students taking a closer look (literally!) at For Everyone by Jason Reynolds.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT ARTFUL AI IN WRITING INSTRUCTION
Rather than chasing quick fixes, this nuanced guide helps teachers navigate the ethical complexities of AI in order to support today′s learners.
— Angela Stockman
It never loses sight of the fact that, regardless of the technology involved, writing instruction is all about human connection and communication.
–Trevor Aleo
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT POETRY PAUSES
Keep this on your desk; you will return often.
– Penny Kittle
[It] nudges us to consider that poetry is not just a genre to be studied one month a year, but a genre that unlocks possibilities for student writers at every stage of the writing process.
– Rebekah O’Dell
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