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Barbara
Helfgott Hyett's School Programs
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Workshop
Teaching Reviews
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addition to conducting The Workshop for Publishing
Poets, Barbara Helfgott Hyett 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. Barbara
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. |
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Beauty
- Poetry Workshop Mascot
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Barbara
Hyett has been one of the most outstanding artists participating
in the Artists-In-Residence Program, funded by the Massachusetts
Council on the Arts and Humanities. Her passion and
skill in teaching children to write poetry is remarkable
and widely known. Everywhere I go, from the Museum of
Fine Arts to the homes of friends, I hear enthusiastic
testimony of Barbara's talent in bringing poetry to
people through teaching and reading. As a compliment
to her role as teacher, Barbara has also edited several
volumes of children's poetry.
Anne Hawley, Executive Director
of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
It's
rare to find a poet of such gifts who also cares about
teaching as much as Barbara does...a great asset wherever
she was; and irreplaceable here.
Askold
Melnyczuk, former Editor, Agni, Boston University
The
teachers absolutely adored [her] seminar.
Henry Bolter, Teachers as Scholars Program, Harvard
Graduate School of Education
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I
have never seen anyone conduct a class by the workshop
method better than Barbara does it. Every teacher of
writing, no matter how experienced, can learn something
from her.
James Buechler, former English
Department Head, Duxbury MA
She
believes passionately that each student, albeit adult
or child, has a dynamic creative potential and she truly
enjoys discovering and revealing this ability.
Martha M. Wright, Department of Education, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston MA
I cannot speak highly enough
of the work which Ms. Hyett did with the students and
the teachers in these settings. Her sensitivities to
multiracial and multi-cultural situations were outstanding.
We have letters in our files from the principals of
each school commending her work. At one school Ms. Hyett's
work was so admired by the principal that he credited
her program with raising all of the students' reading
scores on the city-wide tests.
Polly Price Rabinowitz, Executive
Director, Cultural Education Collaborative, Boston
MA
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“Barbara
was equally effective whether working with senior citizens,
parents and teachers, or public school students in any age
group. This could only have been achieved, as I know from
direct observation, by someone of her high degree of energy,
remarkable intelligence, and gifted writing ability. Her very
special trick of relating to absolutely everyone in workshops,
class sessions, or poetry readings precedes from her ability
to perceive the needs and sensitivities of those around her
and to recognize them all.”
- L. Joan Brown, Supervisor of Language Development, Sharon
Schools.
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