Writer's Locker

English Language Arts Education

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Poetry Apps are designed to work in Google Chrome. 

  • English 9, 10, 11
  • Newswriting/Journalism
  • Media Communication
  • Public Speaking
  • Study Skills
  • Television Production
  • Video Production (Intro & Adv)
  • Words, Words, Words
  • Writing Center Internship
  • Acting
  • AP Literature
  • AP Seminar (Capstone Year 1)
  • AP Research (Capstone Year 2)
  • Creative Writing (Intro & Adv)
  • Dual-Credit English (ENG 1010 & 1020)
  • Dual-Credit Communications (COMM 1010)

Online Poetry Apps 

Write a villanelle. Enter a line and your final word will appear in lines where that end-rhyme must also appear. 

Jean is a high school English and communications teacher with experience in both public and private schools. She is a National Writing Project Teacher Leader and a member of TC Council at the NWP site at Kent State University where she has organized and presented at the annual NWP Teaching Conference Write Here! Write Now! In 2015, Jean was named the Teaching Fellow for The Frost Place Conference on Poetry & Teaching held at the former home of Robert Frost in Franconia, NH. She was Co-Director of Illuminate - the student film experience organized by the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival from 2018-2023. She is Co-Director of National Writing Project at Kent State University. 

About Me

Research to Support Poetry Instruction


The link above will take you to a LiveBinder filled with both scholarly and popular support for poetry in the classroom. From brain research to writing results, the binder contains 35+ articles and grows every year.

  • Co-Director, National Writing Project at Kent State University
  • ​Power of the Pen's "KERNELS OF WISDOM" KEYNOTE SPEAKER - "Growing writers" [2020]
  • 2015 Frost Place Conference on Poetry & Teaching, Teaching Fellow
  • M.Ed., Curriculum & Instruction (Literacy)
  • B.A., ENGLISH
  • English & Comprehensive Communications Teaching LIcense [7-12]
  • GooGle Educator Level 1 & 2
  • ​National Writing Project Teacher Leader
  • Experienced English & Communications Teacher:

Master the tricky pattern of the pantoum. Keep your focus on the poem and the meaning while the program correctly arranges the lines for you.​

Create your own acrostic poem. Save as a .pdf or copy/paste into your favorite word processing program.

Examine poems at the word or line level. Use the sort features to group for tone or other repeating characteristics.