“A Powerful Discourse on Love”
During the Pages fall retreat, 15 educators and teaching artists gathered...
Category Archives: Writing
A Pages Lesson to Leave With
Creative writing is a must. This seems obvious enough as I...
Blacking Out Robert Frost
You know when you’ve done a lesson so many times, it’s...
Writing is art.
Art is freedom. Art is expression. Art is powerful. When I...
Strengthening Memory Through Arts-Integrated Experiences
What do we remember? The blur of objects, a yellow bird,...
Handwritten Pages
I still find evidence of my past when cleaning out a...
An Essay in Pictures
I worry sometimes that we are losing a little more of...
Tension and Revision: Experimenting with Sound
Several days after Michael Torres visited Big Walnut, students approached me...
Poems from a Jar
Raoul Peck, in the introduction of the companion text...
Sharing Fear and Creative Writing
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein–each year my students experience a love-hate...
Making metaphor from scratch
Mary Reufle begins at the beginnings. She offers “Metaphor as time,...
In the Classroom: Seven Ways Into The Media Arts Experience
We will screen Girlhood, a film by Céline Sciamma, in a...
