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.

“Her teaching both at Holy Cross and at Harvard has been tremendously successful.... The evaluations of Barbara's Teachers-as-Scholars seminars are effusive declairations of pleasure and appreciation; they are the most glowing evaluations I have ever read.”
- William J. Holinger, Acting Director, Harvard Graduate School of Education

“[She is] quickly becoming an icon of the program...goddess, magic, miracle worker, life giving. Wow....The teachers absolutely adored [her] seminar.”
- Henry Bolter, Teachers as Scholars Program, Harvard

“ ...her never ending optimism kept our class enthused and enthralled every time we met.”
- student at Boston University in the 1991-92 Course Evaluation Guide

“Ms. Hyett is a remarkable teacher. her students, in their evaluations of her course, consistently comment on how encouraging she is, how she creates the feeling that they are doing better - these remarks about a teacher whose grading is strict. i wish I knew her trick.”
- William G. Riggs, Associate Chair, English, Boston University

“It is common knowledge here that Barbara is one of the best teachers in the department. her passion for ideas, her delight in communicating them, and the respect that she has for people no mater their age or rank - these are just a few of the qualities that make her such a formidable teacher....It's rare to find a poet of such gifts who also cares about teaching as much as barbara does. She would be a great asset wherever she was; and irreplaceable here.”
- Askold Melnyczuk, former Editor, Agni, Boston University