a chance to dip into this great blog on CCSS that focuses on our children's future in our nation's classrooms. Good news is that the word poetry does show up a number of times in the grade level reading standards and is mentioned at least once in an Appendix for writing standards, so teachers know it can be included as part of narrative writing. There is a lot to think about with the standards (adopted by almost all the states) as well as the testing that will result. This is not without controversy as I am sure you can imagine. I sincerely encourage you to consider becoming informed about this. Thank you to everyone for contributing so far! I'll continue to refresh the table throughout the day. For those wondering where your links are upon submission ... it's unfortunately only a semi-automatic process. I couldn't quite figure out how to automate it completely, but what I've done is actually pretty simple, for those who might wish to replicate it. Poetry Friday. We all love it. We all show up most weeks to contribute and check out each other's new content. But in keeping with this post's theme of Findability, Discoverability, and Marketing, I wonder if we can't collectively do more to expose Poetry (Friday) to more people. Most people link back to the round-up site every week, which is great, but I somehow doubt that that brings many new people into the fold. My experience managing the March Madness thing