Keynotes and Special Projects
A Pleasant Surprise subscription newsletter (2022-Present)
Keynote: Western Massachusetts Writing Project Spring Conference (2026)
Workshop: Quincy Public Schools Day of Professional Learning (2025)
Keynote: West Chester University Writing Project Spring Conference (2024)
Keynote: Millersville University Summer Literacy Institute (2022, 2024)
Workshop: North Penn School District ELA Playground PD Presenter (2020)
For six years, Go Poems was an annual blog project that ran daily for National Poetry Month. Find lots of easy-to-use ideas from me and from teachers around the country on this site!
Media Mentions
NPR All Things Considered: How to invite introverted students to share their thoughts in class
Science News: How ChatGPT and similar AI will disrupt education
NBC News: ChatGPT can help you fool OpenAI’s anti-cheating tool
Podcast Episodes
The Broken Copier: AI in the Classroom
TEPSA Talk: Literacy, AI, and Middle School
Integrate This! Teaching Writing With AI
Mind/Shift: How Extroverted Teachers Can Engage Introverted Students
The Broken Copier: To Pause for a Poem with Purpose
Conceptually Speaking: Brett Vogelsinger Talks Poetry, Prose, and Pedagogy
Teacher to Teacher Podcast: Follow Your Heart
Teachers As Leaders: Innovative Back to School Night
Articles and Blog Posts
MiddleWeb
Using Poetry Pauses to Elevate Student Writing
Book Review: Pause for Poetry to Lift Writing in All Genres
Edutopia
A Simple Routine to Help Students Engage With Poetry
Brisk and Bright Ideas for National Poetry Month
Four Reasons To Start Class With A Poem Each Day
The New York Times Learning Network
Text to Text: The Outsiders and “Bored, Broke, and Armed”
Text to Text: Wonder and “Stories About Disability Don’t Have To Be Sad”
Text to Text: The Fault In Our Stars and “You May Want To Marry My Husband”
Teach Thought
ASCD Express Newsletter
The Nerdy Book Club
Book Review: The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
The English Teacher Who Almost Stopped Reading
The Autobiography of a __________ Reader
The Daily Read — How It Changed Our School’s Culture
Top Ten Visual Books For Secondary Students
Sharing Our Notebooks with Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
“Poem of the Day” Profile in Quartz
Why Every Kid Should Start The Day With A Poem
Moving Writers
Monthly Contributor Posts 2019-present
#TeachWrite
When Context Is Absent, Imagination Abounds
NCTE Verse
Presentations
NCTE 2018, Houston: Engaging Readers Beyond the Classroom
ISTE 2018, Philadelphia: A Blended Back to School Night (featured on Teachers as Leaders podcast here)
NCTE 2019, Baltimore: Poems as Portals
CBSD Professional Development, 2019: Summer Book Study of Flash Feedback by Matthew M. Johnson
Summer Literacy Institute, Millersville University, 2021: Keynote and Workshop Leader
Celebrate Your Story, 2022, online: Every Day A Poem
Moving Writers Webinar, March 2022: Five Poetry Pauses to Rouse Your Writers This Week
CBSD Professional Development, 2022: Feedback with an Impact
Moving Writers Webinar, October 2022: Staying Afloat: Sustainable Practices for English Teachers
NCTE 2022, Anaheim: On the Corner of Candor and Hope There Lives a Poem
NCTE 2022, Anaheim: Humanizing the Gradebook
PAGE 2023, Harrisburg, PA: Presenter
PCTELA 2023, Harrisburg, PA: Presenter
WCWP Spring 2024 Writing Conference: Keynote Speaker
Summer Literacy Institute, Millersville University, 2024: Keynote Speaker
NCTE 2024, Boston, MA: Poetry at the Heart of It All
NCTE 2024, Boston, MA: Poetry Comics with Grant Snider
NCTE 2024, Boston, MA, Featured Session with Dr. Ernest Morrell and Dr. Joy Buolamwini: Artificial Intelligence In the ELA Classroom: Embracing Our Reality, Owning Our Responsibility
ISTE-ASCD 2025, San Antonio, TX: Artful Writing with Artificial Intelligence
Plain Talk 2025, New Orleans, LA
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