What if Billie Eilish & Edgar Allan Poe collaborated to help teach your students?
Poetry Rocks Schools has created an exciting online digital resource designed to empower teachers and engage today’s students. Our songs and videos accompany and complement standards-based lesson plans with a simple, yet dynamic concept: We transform traditional and contemporary poetry into modern songs produced to sound like today’s hits.
This new format empowers school teachers to engage students on a familiar & ever-changing cultural level. Using music and literary works with a guided lesson in the classroom improves diverse skills including literacy, reading, comprehension and vocabulary and enriches students’ emotional and social experience.
Poetry Rocks Schools in action
Who we are
We are musicians, teachers, and technology professionals with a passion to improve how poetry and literature is taught in schools. We want students to realize that poetry and literature is about life and living, and that the emotions that drove great poets in the past are similar to those we feel today.
Success, for us, is when students not only engage with the poems set to song that we provide but go further and create poetry and songs of their own!
We engage and inspire
By transforming poetry and other literary works into original songs that are produced to sound like today’s music we empower school teachers to engage students on a familiar & ever-changing cultural level.
How we do it
- Varied musical styles (pop, rock, R&B, hip-hop, country)
- Detailed & alternative lesson plans
- Common core standards applied
- Teacher-friendly resources
- Familiar media & entertaining process for students
- Flexible content
- In line with Social Emotional Learning (SEL)