Carly Berwick

3 weeks ago | edutopia.org | Carly Berwick

When a student struggling with reading and writing entered Salt Lake City teacher Elyse Arrington’s high school ELA class six years ago, it didn’t take long for her to discover that he was in fact a prolific writer—of rap lyrics about his Indigenous identity. He was one of many of Arrington’s students, who, though disengaged from traditional coursework, were deeply involved in storytelling through hip hop.

Oct 13, 2023 | edutopia.org | Carly Berwick

Last spring, the English supervisor in my district sent an unexpected gift to teachers: a list of several dozen books from which we could each order six for our classrooms on the district’s dime. Many titles were familiar classics such as Poe short stories and Twain novels. But a portion of the books were in a format I’d not yet incorporated in my teaching: novels in verse, also called verse novels.

Jun 8, 2023 | snip.ly | Carly Berwick