CalPoets' First Friday Community Meeting ~ February
Jum, Fab 07
|Zoom
Featuring Margo Perin (Area Coordinator - Sonoma) and Norma Smith (Poet-Teacher in Training - Alameda). All past and present California Poets in the Schools' Poet-Teachers, and members of the public, are welcome to attend the 1st Friday Community Meeting, during the lunch hour.
Time & Location
07 Fab, 2025, 12:00 – 13:30
Zoom
About the event
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12:00-12:45: Facing Roadblocks in the Classroom: Margo Perin (Area Coordinator, Sonoma County)
12:45- 1:30: Pay Attention!: Norma Smith (Poet-Teacher in Training, Alameda County)
Facing Roadblocks in the Classroom (Presented by Margo Perin)
Who hasn’t had a student who says “I don’t know what to write” or who is so tired or hungry they can’t focus on the lesson? Or when you ask them what they'd like to write about in the assigned poetry activity, they say “Nothing” or “I hate poetry”?
Or go into a classroom with a well-prepared lesson plan that you think will work well with that group of students, only for it to go nowhere. What to do?