#  Faculty Fellow Elisa New Featured in the Harvard Gazette 

 





February 16, 2017

 

 

 Bok Center Faculty Fellow Elisa New and her General Education course "Poetry in America" have been featured in the *Harvard Gazette*. The article notes how the Bok Center's Learning Lab team has helped New create an online hybrid of her course:

> Now the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature wants to reach an even broader audience in a new course called “Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop.” The online offering — created, in part, with a new faculty fellowship from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning — aims to give secondary school instructors rich content and critical tools. The course, with key support from HarvardX and alumni, is a star-studded affair that includes hip-hop artist Nas reading Walt Whitman and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry reading Carl Sandburg.
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>  “I really want to influence the way language arts is taught in American classrooms by providing high-quality professional development that’s very rigorous and fun,” said New, who is teaching the course through the Extension School in partnership with the Graduate School of Education.

 [Read more at the Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/poetry-class-attracts-all-students/)



 

 

 



 

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