Teacher Resources

School Visits:

I can often be found within classrooms conducting writing workshops and engaging others in conversations about the writing life.

I've introduced middle school and high school students to the making of memoir, engaged with young poets keen on extending their craft, conducted teach-the-teachers sessions, and sat with high school seniors consulting on the realities of the writer's life.  I've talked research, rejection, and staying true. I've taken students behind the scenes and back to the pages of stories I have both loved and written. I'm equally comfortable in large lecture halls and intimate classrooms.  I've visited classrooms electronically and via my blog.
 

Honorarium:  

$750 - $1,000 plus expenses for a full day; $500 plus expenses for a half day.

Teacher's Guide:

For teachers who wish to teach Dangerous Neighbors on their own, I created a multi-dimensional guide that offers a wide range of individual, team, and classroom projects.  Please visit this link.

For teachers of memoir, I invite you to view my Handling the Truth: on the writing of memoir page, where I share exercises and memoir readings not in the book proper. Handling the Truth is due out August 6, 2013).

I have taught or lectured at the following institutions or on behalf of the following organizations:

University of Pennsylvania

Loyola University

Bryn Mawr College

Villanova University

Rutgers-Camden University

Rosemont College 
St. Joseph's University

Goucher College Summer Program

National YoungArts Foundation Program, Miami 2013
 The San Francisco School

Radnor High School

Conestoga High School

Norristown High School
Country Day School of the Sacred Heart

T/E Middle School

Agnes Irwin High School

The Baldwin School

Villa Maria Academy 
The Eighth Grade Center at Springford

Blue Sky Memoirathon (multiple years)

Chanticleer Garden (multiple years)

Philadelphia Museum of Art (teach the teachers)

Rosemont Presbyterian Village

Readergirlz, as Inaugural Author in Residence

2010 Fox Cities Book Festival

2010 Philadelphia Book Festival 

2011 Central League Writing Championship

To request more information or to schedule a visit, please contact me at kephartbooks AT comcast DOT net

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