Town Hall Recap: As Always, A Poem

We recently recorded a Getting Smart Town Hall that focuses on poetry. Over the course of the conversation we discuss why we use poetry to kick-off events, what poetry means to the Getting Smart Team, what poetry means to our audience, what are new methods of teaching poetry and much more.

In this event, we used the following poems:

You can sign up for Mason’s weekly newsletter featuring an original poem at his website. You can also purchase the book Teaching With Fire, a collection of poems and stories from educators.

Check out the next Getting Smart Town Hall here.

Mason Pashia

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Mason Pashia is a Partner (Storytelling) at Getting Smart Collective. Through publications, blogs, podcasts, town halls, newsletters and more, he helps drive the perspective and focus of GettingSmart.com. He is an advocate for data and collective imagination and uses this combination to launch campaigns that amplify voices, organizations and missions. With over a decade in storytelling fields (including brand strategy, marketing and communications and the arts), Mason is always striving to inspire, as well as inform. He is an advocate for sustainability, futures thinking and poetry.

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