Brett Vogelsinger
@thevogelman.bsky.social
I’m a high school English teacher in Bucks County, PA. I present PD and authored the books Poetry Pauses (2023) and Artful AI (coming June 2025).
Poem of the Day to start each class!
https://brettvogelsinger.com
#poetry #ai #teaching #aplit
Poem of the Day to start each class!
https://brettvogelsinger.com
#poetry #ai #teaching #aplit
Always great when I get to call a student I knew as an eighth-grader a new colleague in my building 👏🏻
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Always great when I get to call a student I knew as an eighth-grader a new colleague in my building 👏🏻
Sometimes you need to wrap up a book club with one more thing: Lego sculptures.
Themes, text panels, #makewriting, discussion, gallery walk and @legoeducation.bsky.social
Good times!
@angelastockman.bsky.social
Themes, text panels, #makewriting, discussion, gallery walk and @legoeducation.bsky.social
Good times!
@angelastockman.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Sometimes you need to wrap up a book club with one more thing: Lego sculptures.
Themes, text panels, #makewriting, discussion, gallery walk and @legoeducation.bsky.social
Good times!
@angelastockman.bsky.social
Themes, text panels, #makewriting, discussion, gallery walk and @legoeducation.bsky.social
Good times!
@angelastockman.bsky.social
Today we hosted a guest speaker who once attended our high school, Mike Beck, who spoke about his high school experiences and the skills that students will need beyond graduation. Such a gift when community members volunteer their time like this to share their wisdom 👏🏻 Thank you Mike!
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today we hosted a guest speaker who once attended our high school, Mike Beck, who spoke about his high school experiences and the skills that students will need beyond graduation. Such a gift when community members volunteer their time like this to share their wisdom 👏🏻 Thank you Mike!
Happy to be working with teachers at Quincy Public Schools today. What an energizing group of professionals 👏🏻😁
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happy to be working with teachers at Quincy Public Schools today. What an energizing group of professionals 👏🏻😁
This week I got to see Blackwater Pond, the one Mary Oliver loved and wrote about often. No joke, a friendly fox watched us the whole time and it made me want to write poetry 🦊
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This week I got to see Blackwater Pond, the one Mary Oliver loved and wrote about often. No joke, a friendly fox watched us the whole time and it made me want to write poetry 🦊
End of October in PA really are something on a windy day 🍂🍁
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
End of October in PA really are something on a windy day 🍂🍁
Some #APLit projects, reading and interpreting “Very Old Texts” and presenting reading and research to each other science fair style.
I love seeing the variety of books they selected!
I love seeing the variety of books they selected!
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Some #APLit projects, reading and interpreting “Very Old Texts” and presenting reading and research to each other science fair style.
I love seeing the variety of books they selected!
I love seeing the variety of books they selected!
When we study Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, it’s always a pleasant counterweight to design our own thoughtful extended, metaphors around roads and then reflect on the process.
It reinforces the skills of reading for figurative meaning, but from a different angle.
It reinforces the skills of reading for figurative meaning, but from a different angle.
October 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
When we study Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, it’s always a pleasant counterweight to design our own thoughtful extended, metaphors around roads and then reflect on the process.
It reinforces the skills of reading for figurative meaning, but from a different angle.
It reinforces the skills of reading for figurative meaning, but from a different angle.
Quick, easy, positive, and skill-based.
1. After a spell of reading, write one sentence about what you love about reading. (First two pics)
2. Apply a recent skill (semicolon + conjunctive adverb in this case) to modify one of the sentences, punctuating it perfectly. (Last two pics)
1. After a spell of reading, write one sentence about what you love about reading. (First two pics)
2. Apply a recent skill (semicolon + conjunctive adverb in this case) to modify one of the sentences, punctuating it perfectly. (Last two pics)
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Quick, easy, positive, and skill-based.
1. After a spell of reading, write one sentence about what you love about reading. (First two pics)
2. Apply a recent skill (semicolon + conjunctive adverb in this case) to modify one of the sentences, punctuating it perfectly. (Last two pics)
1. After a spell of reading, write one sentence about what you love about reading. (First two pics)
2. Apply a recent skill (semicolon + conjunctive adverb in this case) to modify one of the sentences, punctuating it perfectly. (Last two pics)
For “Dress Like A Teacher Day” these two aspiring English teachers went literary…and maybe poked some fun at my nerdy Tshirt collection 😂
October 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
For “Dress Like A Teacher Day” these two aspiring English teachers went literary…and maybe poked some fun at my nerdy Tshirt collection 😂
When you’re explaining directions for an assignment, and you turn around to find a student has started building a fortress out of saltines 😱😂
October 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
When you’re explaining directions for an assignment, and you turn around to find a student has started building a fortress out of saltines 😱😂
Since the release of Artful AI, I've been able to talk publicly on several podcasts about the book, its inspiration, content, impact, and goals.
Here is the complete list of podcast episodes on this topic so far . . . and I'll add to it as time goes on!
Here is the complete list of podcast episodes on this topic so far . . . and I'll add to it as time goes on!
October 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Since the release of Artful AI, I've been able to talk publicly on several podcasts about the book, its inspiration, content, impact, and goals.
Here is the complete list of podcast episodes on this topic so far . . . and I'll add to it as time goes on!
Here is the complete list of podcast episodes on this topic so far . . . and I'll add to it as time goes on!
Second block today was “Stall Day” when students could stall the start of class by brining donations in coins for Mini Thon. Took me 20 minutes 😁👏🏻
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Second block today was “Stall Day” when students could stall the start of class by brining donations in coins for Mini Thon. Took me 20 minutes 😁👏🏻
So we are reading The Road right now in Gr10 and learning about mood.
I have some outdoor writing time planned.
I gathered these seed pods for mallow and milkweed.
Like the novel, they look gray and spent, but contain kernels of hope 🌱
Tomorrow we plant seeds in the wild space by our school.
I have some outdoor writing time planned.
I gathered these seed pods for mallow and milkweed.
Like the novel, they look gray and spent, but contain kernels of hope 🌱
Tomorrow we plant seeds in the wild space by our school.
September 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So we are reading The Road right now in Gr10 and learning about mood.
I have some outdoor writing time planned.
I gathered these seed pods for mallow and milkweed.
Like the novel, they look gray and spent, but contain kernels of hope 🌱
Tomorrow we plant seeds in the wild space by our school.
I have some outdoor writing time planned.
I gathered these seed pods for mallow and milkweed.
Like the novel, they look gray and spent, but contain kernels of hope 🌱
Tomorrow we plant seeds in the wild space by our school.
I think it takes more than one thing. More in class writing work, more process evidence, more honest talk about why we write, what AI threatens…and honest talk about when and how AI can push our writing instead of replacing it.
I’m working on and writing about all of this in a HS setting.
I’m working on and writing about all of this in a HS setting.
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I think it takes more than one thing. More in class writing work, more process evidence, more honest talk about why we write, what AI threatens…and honest talk about when and how AI can push our writing instead of replacing it.
I’m working on and writing about all of this in a HS setting.
I’m working on and writing about all of this in a HS setting.
Always a favorite activity. The title seems simple…until we start mapping the connotations of each word, unlocking meaning and anticipation.
#TheOldManabdndtheSea #APLit
#TheOldManabdndtheSea #APLit
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Always a favorite activity. The title seems simple…until we start mapping the connotations of each word, unlocking meaning and anticipation.
#TheOldManabdndtheSea #APLit
#TheOldManabdndtheSea #APLit
To end the week, we had conversation an about what “analysis” means, understanding the pieces and the whole.
We studied a partner’s Lego build closely, broke it down, put it together again piece by piece.
“We’re going to do this with texts all semester…this is our metaphor!”
Poem of the Day:
We studied a partner’s Lego build closely, broke it down, put it together again piece by piece.
“We’re going to do this with texts all semester…this is our metaphor!”
Poem of the Day:
September 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
To end the week, we had conversation an about what “analysis” means, understanding the pieces and the whole.
We studied a partner’s Lego build closely, broke it down, put it together again piece by piece.
“We’re going to do this with texts all semester…this is our metaphor!”
Poem of the Day:
We studied a partner’s Lego build closely, broke it down, put it together again piece by piece.
“We’re going to do this with texts all semester…this is our metaphor!”
Poem of the Day:
An opening build + writing activity to open our year!
10 min: free build
10 min: write in one of these genres with a one-page goal in writers notebooks (direction slide included)
Then share your build/writing with seat partners.
@angelastockman.bsky.social
10 min: free build
10 min: write in one of these genres with a one-page goal in writers notebooks (direction slide included)
Then share your build/writing with seat partners.
@angelastockman.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
An opening build + writing activity to open our year!
10 min: free build
10 min: write in one of these genres with a one-page goal in writers notebooks (direction slide included)
Then share your build/writing with seat partners.
@angelastockman.bsky.social
10 min: free build
10 min: write in one of these genres with a one-page goal in writers notebooks (direction slide included)
Then share your build/writing with seat partners.
@angelastockman.bsky.social
My son is working with me on some new headshots now that the beard seems to be sticking around 😊
Day 1 with students today 🎉
Day 1 with students today 🎉
September 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My son is working with me on some new headshots now that the beard seems to be sticking around 😊
Day 1 with students today 🎉
Day 1 with students today 🎉
I’m excited to share the official study guide for #ArtfulAI is available for teams, departments, and schools looking to lead discussions around my new book this year!
I hope you’ll find it’s a book that invites balanced conversation on this topic🙂
corwinpress.azureedge.net/sp-corwinpre...
I hope you’ll find it’s a book that invites balanced conversation on this topic🙂
corwinpress.azureedge.net/sp-corwinpre...
August 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I’m excited to share the official study guide for #ArtfulAI is available for teams, departments, and schools looking to lead discussions around my new book this year!
I hope you’ll find it’s a book that invites balanced conversation on this topic🙂
corwinpress.azureedge.net/sp-corwinpre...
I hope you’ll find it’s a book that invites balanced conversation on this topic🙂
corwinpress.azureedge.net/sp-corwinpre...
On the eve of my first day back to school, I’m remembering the many reflections of #ISTELive and #ASCDAnnual in San Antonio this summer. I’m grateful I got to go!
August 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
On the eve of my first day back to school, I’m remembering the many reflections of #ISTELive and #ASCDAnnual in San Antonio this summer. I’m grateful I got to go!