On Demand School Author Visits

To meet the needs of teachers and students in 2020's constantly-changing school landscape, Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson and I have created a flexible school author visit package for NO VOICE TOO SMALL.  We have built this on-demand (asynchronous) library of videos, suitable for classroom or at-home use.  
Many of the poets who contributed to NO VOICE TOO SMALL have created mini writing workshop videos, some have also recorded themselves reading their poem. I have learned so much from watching these master craftspeople talk about their creative process, and I hope you and your students will as well.  
Because schools and families are in unique situations in 2020, we have developed multiple ways for you to access and use these free, on-demand materials in your ​classroom, for distance learning, or homeschool classrooms at home.  

On Demand Distance Learning Resources

Flipgrid Book Club
Check out our NO VOICE TOO SMALL Flipgrid Book Club, where readers can watch and respond to poetry reading and writing workshop videos with their own recordings and writings! For privacy, teachers can copy this module into their own classroom Flipgrid sites. 

Educational Guide
Click here to download the standards-aligned (K-4)  Educational Activity Guide.

Links for Use in Google Classroom 
If you prefer to embed links into your own Google Classroom documents, we have gathered the links to all of the Writing Workshops and Poetry Reading videos that are currently live on You Tube into one google doc. Click here for NO VOICE TOO SMALL Distance Learning Links. 

Book trailer

• NO VOICE TOO SMALL book trailer, featuring the voices of some of our young activists. 

YouTube playlists

• NO VOICE TOO SMALL Writing Workshops  Poets from NO VOICE TOO SMALL share their inspiration and writing tips with young readers. 
• NO VOICE TOO SMALL Young Activists Speak  A collection of videos of the young activists featured in NO VOICE TOO SMALL. Some were created just for readers of this book, others are news videos, speeches, or performances given by the young activists in the past. 
• NO VOICE TOO SMALL Poetry Readings  A rotating selection of poets read their own poems aloud.