From Building Confidence to Mastering Creative Expression: Four Beyond Educational Reasons to Teach Poetry in Schools

A Real Teacher’s Story

Jenny Justice
The Partnered Pen
Published in
5 min readMar 22, 2023

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Poetry is important. One day I will write more about my experiences as a first year third grade ELA teacher, but for now, all that I really want to write about is poetry. Poetry and how, despite having to defend it again and again…

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Jenny Justice
The Partnered Pen

Writer| Mom | Poet | Book Nerd | Teacher? | Brings Poetry to life with empathy, connection, joy, justice, and feeling. Poetry Fangirl