Content for Use in Classrooms
Amplify Curriculum for Middle-schoolers
Poetry in America partnered with Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, to develop new lessons and content that get students and teachers truly excited about poetry. The lessons include tips for leading rich classroom discussions on poetry, tools to help students and teachers, and videos of a wide variety of interpreters close reading poems, including Shaquille O’Neal, Shiza Shahid, Richard Blanco.
The Amplify Poetry in America curriculum is available for purchase from Amplify.
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PBS LearningMedia: Free Resources for Middle- and High-schoolers
The Poetry in America PBS LearningMedia collection features 12 lessons based on the Season One episodes of the Poetry in America public television series. PBS LearningMedia content is available to teachers and students at no cost! You can ask students to watch the short episode excerpts we’ve made available on PBS LearningMedia, or you can stream or purchase the full episodes for use in class (click here for more information about our TV series).
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For-credit Opportunities for High-Schoolers
Are you interested in enrolling high school students in a for-credit college English course? Poetry in America offers dual enrollment programming for high-schoolers through Arizona State University Learning Enterprise. Click the button below to learn more.
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Arizona State University
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ASU Learning Enterprise
The rigid and linear design of the traditional U.S. education system does not provide an effective ladder to social and economic opportunity for all learners and is not responsive to the rapidly evolving needs of society.
ASU’s Learning Enterprise exists to foster and grow universal access to social and economic opportunity at every stage of a person’s life. This aim’s fulfillment requires innovative, high-scale education enabled by ASU’s robust knowledge core.
National Education Equity Lab
The National Education Equity Lab is a nonprofit, working with Harvard University, Arizona State University, the Common Application and other major institutions, that aims to advance economic and social mobility for low income students at scale.
We are delivering a scalable, “College-in-High School” model to historically under-served students in their high school classroom, at no cost to the students. College-credit bearing courses from top universities are co-taught with a classroom teacher and include a research-informed pipeline of built-in supports to maximize student success.
Amplify
At Amplify, we strive to engage all students deeply with challenging content while also providing teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student.
PBS LearningMedia
Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.
Verse Video Education
Driven by the goals and values of its flagship project, Poetry in America, Verse Video Education develops video and accompanying curricular materials in the arts and humanities and beyond, creating a body of educational content capable of reaching a very broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and old, American and international. By producing its own projects and creating thoughtfully-constructed and thought-provoking multimedia content for other organizations, Verse Video Education aims to enhance educational experiences, both within and outside of the classroom.