HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028944 • We are eager to begin production of The Poetry of Earth, Sea, and Sky. Designed, too, for Middle and High School teachers, The Poetry of Earth, Sea, and Sky will draw English Language Arts instruction into dialogue with science, and will include extraordinary footage of the natural world, conversations with poets, scholars, and scientists as well as footage shot in class and in the field with great teachers. • A recent partnership with Greenwich Country Day School and the Success Academy Network of charter schools will provide a base for the production of a new collection of classroom-ready educational material on The Poetry of Art Sport, and Play. This collection will include discussions on poems filmed everywhere from sports fields to Broadway theaters, and will feature dancers, athletes, fashion designers, and more. • With a growing archive of footage capturing teachers and students reading American poems, we are eager to expand our reach and move into America's schools, disseminating, testing, and learning from teachers and students using our materials. We hope to be able to begin work evaluating the impact of poetry on literacy levels and character development and, eventually, to produce a full suite of materials that foster character development along with intellectual growth. Working closely with such partners as The Nantucket Project, Nautilus Magazine, The Aspen Ideas Festival, and The Big Think, and, of course, HarvardX, Harvard's provider of free open online courses, we are continuing to create rich educational media on poetry for adult learners and lifelong learners. These materials include short form videos such as this one on Robert Pinsky's "Shirt" (as featured in The New Yorker), and, this spring, the sixth module of the free seven-part Poetry in America MOOC, which has registrants in over 150 countries. Growing rapidly, and outpacing our current staff and infrastructure, Poetry in America has a fundra