Brett Vogelsinger
@thevogelman.bsky.social
I’m a high school English teacher in Bucks County, PA. I present PD and authored the books Poetry Pauses (2023) and Artful AI (coming June 2025).
Poem of the Day to start each class!
https://brettvogelsinger.com
#poetry #ai #teaching #aplit
Poem of the Day to start each class!
https://brettvogelsinger.com
#poetry #ai #teaching #aplit
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Artificial Intelligence Resources
Finding Our Way in A New Era of Writing Instruction Image created via Dall-E 3 For a while now, I have been grappling with a range of emotions regarding artificial intelligence — from trepida…
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I updated my website today with a fresh roundup of resources for thinking about and talking about the nuances of #AI in education, including articles, podcasts, and useful lines for the classroom.
Enjoy and share with others who may find it useful! #EduSkyAI
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Enjoy and share with others who may find it useful! #EduSkyAI
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Yes, it's exactly what we can all strive for! Refreshing to read it so clearly laid out in longform.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Yes, it's exactly what we can all strive for! Refreshing to read it so clearly laid out in longform.
Everything you're saying is the foundation of my writing on this topic! Yes!
I think we can help so many kids if we can help teachers to think this way :)
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I think we can help so many kids if we can help teachers to think this way :)
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Artificial Intelligence Resources
Finding Our Way in A New Era of Writing Instruction Image created via Dall-E 3 TWO UPCOMING EVENTS!! Check out this FREE WEBINAR from Corwin about AI in Writing Instruction, and watch my recent Ins…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Everything you're saying is the foundation of my writing on this topic! Yes!
I think we can help so many kids if we can help teachers to think this way :)
brettvogelsinger.com/artificial-i...
I think we can help so many kids if we can help teachers to think this way :)
brettvogelsinger.com/artificial-i...
I feel like this is the article I've been waiting for!
If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I feel like this is the article I've been waiting for!
If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
If you are an English teacher feeling frustrated with how to handle the AI era, this is a worthy read, thoughtful and pragmatic and full of hope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
This sign is coming soon to my high school for program planning season 🙂
I truly believe it’s a nine-week elective on a block schedule that every student should take. Explore the other side of writing in high school!
I truly believe it’s a nine-week elective on a block schedule that every student should take. Explore the other side of writing in high school!
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This sign is coming soon to my high school for program planning season 🙂
I truly believe it’s a nine-week elective on a block schedule that every student should take. Explore the other side of writing in high school!
I truly believe it’s a nine-week elective on a block schedule that every student should take. Explore the other side of writing in high school!
Sadly, no. But I'll be there in Philly. Looking forward to it!
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Sadly, no. But I'll be there in Philly. Looking forward to it!
7: The Giver
8: The Outsiders
9: Romeo and Juliet and TKAM
10: The Crucible
11: Macbeth
12: Things Fall Apart
9-12 are in curriculum revision now though, so I'm not sure how these will shift.
Lang and Lit in 11 and 12 do not have to abide by those last two.
8: The Outsiders
9: Romeo and Juliet and TKAM
10: The Crucible
11: Macbeth
12: Things Fall Apart
9-12 are in curriculum revision now though, so I'm not sure how these will shift.
Lang and Lit in 11 and 12 do not have to abide by those last two.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
7: The Giver
8: The Outsiders
9: Romeo and Juliet and TKAM
10: The Crucible
11: Macbeth
12: Things Fall Apart
9-12 are in curriculum revision now though, so I'm not sure how these will shift.
Lang and Lit in 11 and 12 do not have to abide by those last two.
8: The Outsiders
9: Romeo and Juliet and TKAM
10: The Crucible
11: Macbeth
12: Things Fall Apart
9-12 are in curriculum revision now though, so I'm not sure how these will shift.
Lang and Lit in 11 and 12 do not have to abide by those last two.
Amazing! Glad you had a great time, and can't wait to see you next year.
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Amazing! Glad you had a great time, and can't wait to see you next year.
Yes, that is an interesting question! Our district has at least one title per grade level like this. I do like that when I'm teaching a concept, I can refer back to an earlier example and most kids remember it, i.e. when teaching allusion: "Remember "Stay gold, Ponyboy" from eighth grade?"
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Yes, that is an interesting question! Our district has at least one title per grade level like this. I do like that when I'm teaching a concept, I can refer back to an earlier example and most kids remember it, i.e. when teaching allusion: "Remember "Stay gold, Ponyboy" from eighth grade?"
It’s always such a balance between teacher preference, student choice, and those texts we ask all students in a grade to read, right?
If you could choose any Shakespeare play to teach to freshmen, which would you want to try first and why? 🤔
If you could choose any Shakespeare play to teach to freshmen, which would you want to try first and why? 🤔
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It’s always such a balance between teacher preference, student choice, and those texts we ask all students in a grade to read, right?
If you could choose any Shakespeare play to teach to freshmen, which would you want to try first and why? 🤔
If you could choose any Shakespeare play to teach to freshmen, which would you want to try first and why? 🤔
Nice idea! And in general, English classes could use more literary levity. I use Austen and Wilde in AP Lit for this reason. Which would be your top choice of Shakespeare comedy for beginners?
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Nice idea! And in general, English classes could use more literary levity. I use Austen and Wilde in AP Lit for this reason. Which would be your top choice of Shakespeare comedy for beginners?
Ooh, that's cool! I've never heard of Hamlet taught in ninth. I've taught Othello in AP Lit. In my own education I did R+J, Julius Ceasar, and Macbeth in 9, 10, 11. I feel like Julius Ceasar used to be really popular in schools but not so much anymore.
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Ooh, that's cool! I've never heard of Hamlet taught in ninth. I've taught Othello in AP Lit. In my own education I did R+J, Julius Ceasar, and Macbeth in 9, 10, 11. I feel like Julius Ceasar used to be really popular in schools but not so much anymore.
Yeah, it is pretty traditional. I also felt it was a text in my ten years in 9th grade that got almost 100% buy-in from a mixed crowd of students. My own kids really enjoyed it too. But I'd be curious to hear how other Shakespeare plays go over as well. Have you ever taught R&J in 9th?
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Yeah, it is pretty traditional. I also felt it was a text in my ten years in 9th grade that got almost 100% buy-in from a mixed crowd of students. My own kids really enjoyed it too. But I'd be curious to hear how other Shakespeare plays go over as well. Have you ever taught R&J in 9th?
Hmmm. Are you saying another would be a better fit? Or that freshman year is the wrong time to introduce the bard?
The word that interests me in the survey is “encounter.” The temptation to teach everything we see in Shakespeare is strong, slowing it down. Could we just watch and talk sometimes?
The word that interests me in the survey is “encounter.” The temptation to teach everything we see in Shakespeare is strong, slowing it down. Could we just watch and talk sometimes?
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Hmmm. Are you saying another would be a better fit? Or that freshman year is the wrong time to introduce the bard?
The word that interests me in the survey is “encounter.” The temptation to teach everything we see in Shakespeare is strong, slowing it down. Could we just watch and talk sometimes?
The word that interests me in the survey is “encounter.” The temptation to teach everything we see in Shakespeare is strong, slowing it down. Could we just watch and talk sometimes?
So happy for you!!
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
So happy for you!!
Well this made my day! Thank you, Andrew, for sharing my words, and I hope that these teachers and their students get to enjoy lots of #poetrypauses together🙂
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@thevogelman.bsky.social fyi I was spruiking Poetry Pauses at an Australian English teachers workshop last week. I recommended four books but said of “all of them, stop what you’re doing and buy Poetry Pauses, it’s excellent and will make you think about poetry in a cross-genre way”
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Well this made my day! Thank you, Andrew, for sharing my words, and I hope that these teachers and their students get to enjoy lots of #poetrypauses together🙂
@corwinpress.bsky.social
@corwinpress.bsky.social
That's so wonderful! Thank you for sharing the book (and this post!)
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
That's so wonderful! Thank you for sharing the book (and this post!)
Reposted by Brett Vogelsinger
Enjoying the Expo Hall at #NCTE25?
Stop by @corwinpress.bsky.social at Booth #714 to pick up a copy of Poetry Pauses or Artful AI in Writing Instruction!
Stop by @corwinpress.bsky.social at Booth #714 to pick up a copy of Poetry Pauses or Artful AI in Writing Instruction!
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Enjoying the Expo Hall at #NCTE25?
Stop by @corwinpress.bsky.social at Booth #714 to pick up a copy of Poetry Pauses or Artful AI in Writing Instruction!
Stop by @corwinpress.bsky.social at Booth #714 to pick up a copy of Poetry Pauses or Artful AI in Writing Instruction!
Reposted by Brett Vogelsinger
NCTE is in my town of Philly next year! Proposals open tomorrow…
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NCTE is in my town of Philly next year! Proposals open tomorrow…
John Green Doesn’t Want You to Lose the Magic of Your Teenage Self
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November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In 2018, I wrote this @nytimes.com Learning Network piece for teachers using The Fault in Our Stars by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. Today's excellent interview, which I'll post in the first comment, is a piece I'd definitely add!
@kschulten.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/l...
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www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/l...
Text to Text | ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ and ‘You May Want to Marry My Husband’ (Published 2018)
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November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In 2018, I wrote this @nytimes.com Learning Network piece for teachers using The Fault in Our Stars by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. Today's excellent interview, which I'll post in the first comment, is a piece I'd definitely add!
@kschulten.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/l...
@kschulten.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/l...
Reposted by Brett Vogelsinger
The conversation continues! Join us to discuss student advocacy in the writing center #NCTE25 @thevogelman.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The conversation continues! Join us to discuss student advocacy in the writing center #NCTE25 @thevogelman.bsky.social
Enjoy the conference Chanea!
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Enjoy the conference Chanea!
Reposted by Brett Vogelsinger
Retrieval practice has been a game changer in my classroom. Most days my classes start with a brief selection of retrieval questions. I like to start with retrieval because it gives me a good idea of what stuck from our previous lesson. #teachertips
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Retrieval practice has been a game changer in my classroom. Most days my classes start with a brief selection of retrieval questions. I like to start with retrieval because it gives me a good idea of what stuck from our previous lesson. #teachertips