Online Poetry Classroom (OPC), a new program of The Academy of American Poets, combines poetry, pedagogy, and technology with the belief that poetry is an essential part of America's heritage and a vital tool in helping students comprehend and articulate human experience.
Designed to enhance poetry education on a national level, OPC employs technology to encourage the development of new poetry curricula and teaching strategies by high school English and Language Arts teachers. OPC serves both as an interactive professional development program and a virtual community enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online. These teaching tools include innovative, classroom-tested curricula and discussion forums in which users can post strategies for and ask questions about teaching poetry at the high school level.
The OPC program was developed in conjunction with three partner organizations: Center for Children & Technology, part of the Education Development Center, Inc.; Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University's Teachers College; and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. For more information on these organizations, please visit the Partner Institutions page on this site, or the websites of each organization.
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