New Westminster's Poetry in the Park series lineup has been announced! This Summer, they'll feature @raoulfernandes.bsky.social, @allegorically.bsky.social, @christinashah.bsky.social, @jkirton.bsky.social, @isabellawangbc.bsky.social, @kevinspenst.bsky.social, and more. @rclas.bsky.social

Honoured to be on the shortlist for the Malahat Review's Far Horizons Award! malahatreview.ca/announcement...

“Shout out to the classics, but a book doesn’t need to be timeless in order to be effective for the generations that are reading it.“ 🎤🫳

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“They work in the advancement of literature, but not in the proliferation of literacy.” What an interview… 🙏

Why is Apple News pushing residential school denialism articles?

Such a joy to get to talk with 350 SFU student teachers today about relational learning. One of the highlights of my career. So many lovely people. Such sweet engagement. So absorbed I almost forgot to take a photo. 🤩 Thank you for the invitation, @sfueducation.bsky.social!

Jaylene Tyme, live at the @bctela.bsky.social conference: a surthrivor!

Teachers of #bced! The @bctela.bsky.social conference has a magnificent lineup this year, with a keynote from Billy-Ray Belcourt, drag with Jaylene Tyme, and two dozen workshops that will deepen your K-12 ELA practice! Join ussssss! www.bctelaconference.ca

What does Reconciliation mean to you? Check out what Indigenous educators in Surrey Schools have to say! #sd36learn surreyschoolsone.ca/trc/

Join us for this year's @bctela.bsky.social conference this October! In the morning Dr. Joaquin Munoz and I will share our learning progressions for engaging with Indigenous topics, and in the afternoon Dr. Kessey Jemmott and I will dig deep into the joy & decolonizing power of creative nonfiction!

Gather Around! Story at Resistance, Story as Hope! Register now for BCTELA's Oct. 2025 conference!! bctela.ca/conferences/

Conferences - BC Teachers of English Language Arts

BC Teachers of English Language Arts  October 2025 Conference!!   Gather Around: Story As Resistance, Story As Hope Date: October 23-24, 2025 Thursday night it’s showtime with a twist! Join us for a p...

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If you're looking for *free* rubrics, ELA course plans, conferencing docs, literacy support, links to powerful contemporary poems, and more, check out my class site: mistermckillop.wordpress.com/for-teachers/. #ela

For Teachers

Useful files for teachers!

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Day 7 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club! We know you have some important thoughts we can learn from in response to these questions. Contribute to our thinking in the comments section below.

Prompts! Writing stations! (Though they choose their own destination; no one hits all the stations.) Exemplars and discussions! Visiting poets! Modelling and co-writing! Drafts! In-the-moment feedback!

BCTELA BC Teachers of English Language Arts@bctela.bsky.social · last yr.

Day 6 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club! Share some ideas colleagues might be able to use in their classrooms!

Day 5 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club! Let's learn a bit about you...share your reflections in the comments section below.

Day 4 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club Going big with this prompt. Share your thoughts in the comments section and support conversation by replying to others.

My favourite definition of poetry: intense language. So there’s an intensity to prose poetry, a densification with strong verbs and nouns. There’s often a focus on showing over telling, leaving the reader to infer. A GOOD prose poem takes us somewhere we didn’t expect.

BCTELA BC Teachers of English Language Arts@bctela.bsky.social · last yr.

Day 3 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club Share your ideas below in the comment section and don't forget to respond or reply to others. 🙂 Love this learning community!

Day 3 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club Share your ideas below in the comment section and don't forget to respond or reply to others. 🙂 Love this learning community!

Day 2 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club Share your thoughts in the comments section and please also respond to others' contributions!

Day 1 of 8 2025 BCTELA: BC Teachers of English Language Arts Summer Book Club! This collection of poems is a powerful read! Please respond to the quote, the question or the reflections below in the comment section.

Happy August everyone! A few short days until our 2025 summer book club chats begin for NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt, our conference keynote! Questions to provoke your thinking and responses start August 20th and go until the 27th! We are eagerly anticipating your contributions!!

Once a month I give this anonymous Google Form survey to all my classes + then turn around and share the results with them the following week Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer (Especially the debrief conversations!)

Join us for Poetry in the Park July 16th with features Cecily Nicholson and Rita Wong, followed by open mic and host @jessicaleemcmillan.com. 6:30pm Queen's Park Bandshell. rclas.com/recurring/po...

Now Hiring: Poetry Editor! Position begins August 2025. For the full posting, please see our website. Apply before July 22, 2025: ex-puritan.ca/news/now-hir...

NOW HIRING: POETRY EDITOR

The Ex-Puritan is hiring a new poetry editor!

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Something I love about having made a vision document for each of the classes I teach back in at the beginning of the school year? The ability to look at it when the school year concludes as a lens to understand what went well and how I need to do better: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

24-25 Course Vision - AP Literature

24-25 Course Vision - AP Literature In order to go somewhere, you usually have to have a clear vision of where you want to go. So ahead of a new school year, I want to take the time to lay out the sev...

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DOCTOR Kessey! She did it!!!😍😍😍

Arc’s Poem of the Year 2025 Readers’ Choice Award is open for voting! Which shortlisted poem is your favourite? Read the standout finalist poems and cast your vote today! buff.ly/3DLvn2D

“…keep going…”

The Mary Rose Museum@maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · last yr.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

my book, a body more tolerable, is out in the public early! WHAT A TIME!

From 'Midnight & Other Poems' (2009) —Mourid Barghouti [tr. Radwa Ashour] #poetry #poem #poems #palestine