I Hate Poetry - Engaging Poetry Ideas That Will Transform Your Secondary Classroom

Think poetry is boring, scary, or just plain hard? Award-winning teacher and poet Kiki May Healey will flip that script with playful strategies, from March Madness poetry brackets to heartfelt videos, that help students find their voice and spark lively class discussions all year long. Whether you’ve always loved poetry, secretly dreaded it, or avoided it entirely, this session will leave you with the tools, the inspiration, and maybe even the joy to make poetry a lively, confidence-building part of your classroom with lesson plans for Monday morning.