PROPOSAL: Poetry in America for Middle and High School Teachers A. NATURE OF THE REQUEST Poetry in America, a collaboration between Elisa New and Programs in Professional Education (PPE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), will produce courses for national and international distribution to K­12 teachers. Drawing on Elisa New’s extensive archive of raw instructional video, HGSE has the goal of providing online graduate­level professional development courses for teachers who have never before had the opportunity to advance their careers online. Teachers will be able to use to this course to strengthen their