Barbara Helfgott Hyett is a Visiting Scholar with the Teachers As Scholars Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, teaching poetry writing and reading since 1999. She is also a Visiting Poet with The Institute for Writing at Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. since 1998.

Barbara has worked as a Visiting Poet in over 60 school districts in Massachusetts including Andover, Beverly, Boston, Brookline, Duxbury, Hingham, Newton, and Sharon. Her programs with students, teachers and families include reading and writing workshops in Childhood Memory, Parenting, and Watchfulness.

From 1983-1984, Hyett was Preceptor in the Department of English at Boston University. She taught poetry, American Literature, and creative and expository writing.

In 1989 Hyett was Lecturer in poetry and curriculum at the Leslie College Graduate Outreach Program in Cheyenne, WY, and from 1982-1984 she was Lecturer in Writing for Science with the Massachusetts Institute of Techhnology. Hyett was also Assistant Professor of English at Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts.

Barbara Helfgott Hyett was a Co-Founder and a Director of The Writers' Room of Boston (1988-1996). Since 1978 she has held visiting poet residences at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Fuller Art Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Barbara Helfgott Hyett has conducted extensive research on endangered wildlife of North and Central America. Since 1989 she has been an appointee to the Brookline Holocaust Memorial Commission, establishing video archives of survivor testimony. Hyett traveled and researched the first voyage of Christopher Columbus and was oral historian for the Project Liberators Remember, devising and conducting interviews with U.S. G.I.'s who saw the Nazi Concentration Camps. Since 1978, Hyett has been a freelance editor and college textbook consultant.