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A Talk with Kwame Alexander
Date: May 28, 2015
Summary: Directors from NWP and the Connecticut Writing Project-Fairfield, lead a conversation with Kwame Alexander, the 2015 Newbery Medal winner, about how his work inspired teachers and students at a high-needs partner school to write across disciplines.
Excerpt from Show
Kwame Alexander 
, an American writer of poetry and children's fiction, talks about his book, Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band:
When you think about jazz music, it's all built around improv and riffing and sort of being in that moment and taking that and running with it and doing it in a way you feel confident. I think that's another thing that this book, I hope, teaches our children: being willing to take risks because the rewards on the other side of those risks can be phenomenal."
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Related Resources Discussed on the Show
- Why Write Prompt—National Day of Writing (PDF)
- Pictures from Kwame Alexander's Hill Central Visit
- The Crossover Educator's Guide (PDF)
- Community of Unity
- Writing Our Lives—Bridgeport with Kwame Alexander
- Digital Story: Hill Central and National Day on Writing
- Digital Is: A Reason to Celebrate in New Haven, Connecticut
- From Kreativitet—A 2014 Blog on Creativity
- Hill Central Student Designed Writers' Notebooks for the 2014-2015 School Year (Image)
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