New Poetry Jam Poetry Curriculum Helps Students Nail Core Standards and Raise Test Scores
April 12, 2010, PRINCE FREDERICK, Md.--Recorded Books K-12, leading publisher of K-12 education curriculum and a division of Recorded Books, LLC, the world's largest independent producer of audiobooks, announces today the release of The Poetry Jam, a new poetry curriculum developed for real teachers, by real teachers to make a difference in the education of high school students.
Created by Alan Sitomer, an award-winning teacher and author of several ALA award-winning young adult novels, and Michael Cirelli, teacher, poet and executive director of Urban Word NYC, the Poetry Jam is a collection of poetry featuring everything from hip-hop to Shakespeare and Tupac Shakur to Tennyson, accompanied by standards-based curriculum and cutting-edge multimedia projects.
"Poetry has reinvented, reinvigorated and reintroduced itself to a new generation of young people in a way that is vibrant, exciting and indisputably electric," said Sitomer. "Teachers need the right tools to reach their students, and that is why we created the Poetry Jam. It puts the power back in the hands of the teachers and shows them how to fuel these young minds."
Sitomer and Cirelli developed the Poetry Jam to provide teachers with the tools necessary to
Created by Alan Sitomer, an award-winning teacher and author of several ALA award-winning young adult novels, and Michael Cirelli, teacher, poet and executive director of Urban Word NYC, the Poetry Jam is a collection of poetry featuring everything from hip-hop to Shakespeare and Tupac Shakur to Tennyson, accompanied by standards-based curriculum and cutting-edge multimedia projects.
"Poetry has reinvented, reinvigorated and reintroduced itself to a new generation of young people in a way that is vibrant, exciting and indisputably electric," said Sitomer. "Teachers need the right tools to reach their students, and that is why we created the Poetry Jam. It puts the power back in the hands of the teachers and shows them how to fuel these young minds."
Sitomer and Cirelli developed the Poetry Jam to provide teachers with the tools necessary to
