•  Towards a Poetry Friendly School (teachers, media specialists, administrators)
This session is a comprehensive day-long workshop for administrators, teachers and media specialists that begins with the premise that a poetry friendly school will be a ore literate one, a more humane one and ultimately a home for a school that finds value in the arts and the integration of the arts with general academic study. With the encouraging of reading and writing at its core, the session seeks to offer a practice of poetry engagement in schools that can create a community of excellence in learning. Dawes offers useful tips about how to teach poetry in schools, how to encourage more reading, how to invite writers, how to integrate poetry into the teaching of the Social Sciences, the sciences, Mathematics and any other subject area pursued in schools. Towards a Poetry Friendly School has been modified for various groups by Dawes who seeks to work closely with schools, school districts and conferences to ensure that the sessions are relevant and appropriate for their needs.

•  Teaching Poetry to High School Students (teachers, media specialists, administrators)
One of the challenges facing many teachers these days is that of teaching poetry to high school students. Many of these teachers have not had any training in the pedagogy of teaching poetry to high school students, and approach teaching merely from what they recall from a few classes at college and in high school. Dawes uses the session to demonstrate that any effective course in English literature must have at its main target, the preparation of students to read poetry effectively and to write about it coherently and systematically. He also seeks to get them to enjoy the reading of poetry. These sessions are designed to give teachers al the skill sets they will need to teach with confidence and success.

•  Teaching Across the Curriculum: The Case of Poetry (teachers, media specialists, administrators)
In this session Dawes proposes that one of the ost effective ways of introducing inter-disciplinary learning and practice, is to use poetry as a bridge across disciplines. He shows how the study of poetry can enhance the study of history, geography, music, art, politics, architecture, and the sciences. He uses examples of poetry that engage themes related to these subject areas and that offer a way to understand these subjects areas while remaining fully valid as works of poetry. Dawes offers a list of practical and effective exercises and projects that can be employed in schools to enact this inter-disciplinary approach to learning.

•  Talking Up the Novel in Verse (teachers, media specialists, administrators)
In this session, Dawes offers a comprehensive workshop on the value of the novel in verse and its effectiveness in encouraging reluctant readers to read. He also offers ways in which the novel-in-verse can be used by the student and teachers to start to be more pen to poetry as a literary form.

•  The value of Creative Writing in the Study of English Literature (teachers, media specialists and administrators)
Many teachers are convinced that teaching students to write creatively will not have any value to them when it comes to writing critically about the art form. In these sessions, Dawes begs to differ. He proceeds to show that the art of making poems offers an unusually helpful opportunity for students to learn about the insides of a poem and about the structures and devices of poems not through lectures, but through the process of writing in the form He offers very detailed outlines of workshops exercises that can be used, and more than that, he shows that learning poetry in this manner gives the student a perspective of the art form that is impossible to replicate any other way.