Poetry Inside Out Teacher Workshop

This two-day workshop will introduce classroom teachers to the Poetry Inside Out curriculum and prepare them to implement the program in their classrooms. Poetry Inside Out is a language arts curriculum that builds essential literacy skills among linguistically diverse students in grades 3-12 through the translation and composition of poetry.

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Participating teachers will:

Learn how to implement Poetry Inside Out in their classroom
Discuss theories of literacy and second-language acquisition
Understand how Poetry Inside Out meets Common Core State Standards, 2012 California ELD Standards, and California 2014 ELA/ELD Framework
Learn how to identify and build classroom structures for academically productive talk and a collaborative learning environment
Participation includes ongoing implementation support such as scheduled group meetings and classroom observation; and the opportunity to join a local and national network of teachers implementing Poetry Inside Out.

Poetry Inside Out supports students’ development of essential language skills through an engaging and collaborative learning process. Each phase of the curriculum—translation, debate, and the composition of original work—is designed to make students aware of how language functions.

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By participating in Poetry Inside Out students build:

Vocabulary and language skills;
Close reading skills needed to decipher and understand complex texts across all subject areas;
The reading, writing, speaking, thinking, and listening skills necessary for creative and purposeful expression; and
The ability to reason and make evidence-based arguments.