Praise for Brittany’s “A Real Poetry Unit,” produced with the support of Poetry Foundation:
“I loved the writing exercises and just experiencing the poems with everyone who attended. I was amazed by how well the activities aligned with the content. And how creative the whole process was!”
—Workshop Participant
“I really enjoyed being provided various activities that are adaptable to many different learning styles, especially making poetry interactive. I appreciated the modern, diverse and relevant artists that were read. The breakdown of how to utilize text with age/grade appropriate recommendations for discussion and activities were great as well.”
—Workshop Participant
“[S]o so good. [S]ometimes it's hard for teaching artists to prove their worth in the classroom to administrators &/or some teachers[,] but now that I'm armed with direct examples of how contemporary poetry/creative writing can hit on common core, I have ammo if an admin questions my validity or understanding. ALSO[,] I really liked seeing different grade levels of poems/lessons side by side. I am now more confident in my grade-level lesson-planning criteria for poetry/art/music units.”
—Workshop Participant
Praise for Brittany’s “Seeing the Stanza,” produced with the support of Poets & Writers:
“Brittany always brought amazing prompts, dealt with a really challenging comment in Workshop 1 in an effective way by redirecting the conversation, also, having Jassmine assist with facilitation was great because tech stuff went smoothly and I felt like there was greater accessibility with her reading out messages from the chat/putting spoken things in the chat. Down to the details of having links ready to go, the well-curated slides, enough time to arrive and check-in, etc, this was an awesome workshop that was great as individual sessions and even more amazing as a whole.”
—Workshop Participant
“Brittany is a very engaging teacher, so smart and so supporting and came up with unique and beautiful introduction activities and discussion points. Very creative, very strong leader! [Our] classes were structured in a way [that] it was easy to keep up the energy and content was very Detroit-centered talents that deserve to be talked about.”
—Workshop Participant
“As a facilitator, Brittany Rogers presents participants with a multifaceted, multidisciplinary experience. Rather than teaching participants one way to do things, Rogers creates an atmosphere of exploration where the participant can adapt techniques and lenses to their existing style and practice. The workshop was a blast, both educational and generative.”
—Workshop Participant