How can classroom teachers invite their students to speak back to the world in this current moment? How does writing allow students to be seen and heard?

Welcome to Writing as Healing, a Heinemann podcast series focused on writing as a tool to increase healing in students and teachers. We know that academic learning doesn't happen without social and emotional support. And writing as a key literacy is uniquely positioned in every classroom to do both.

This week, Liz is joined by Willeena Booker, a poet and Pennsylvania third grade teacher, to talk about the power of writing about current events, public grief and social justice.

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