Teaching Matters Hosts Poetry Slam on 6/11 for 200+ Students, with Prominent Guest Poets

WHAT: The Spoken Word annual poetry event is the culminating activity for Teaching Matters’ writing curriculum, WritingMatters, which offers 5th through 9th grade teachers powerful new ways to approach writing instruction using 21st Century technology tools. Created by Teaching Matters, Writing Matters offers a private, safe, free e-Zine space for students to publish and share their work in progress. At the competition, 250 young people from New York City public schools perform their own original poetry to an audience of their peers and poets. The students are in breakout rooms throughout