Words, Words, Words: Exploring Shakespeare and Complex Texts
Teacher Weekend Intensive: Professional Development from Folger Education
Booking and details
Register nowDates Fri, Mar 28 - Sat, Mar 29, 2025
Venue Folger Library
Tickets $300
Duration 8:00am - 5:00pm each day
Join us for two jam-packed days of teaching and learning at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
- Explore ways of engaging with Shakespeare’s language following the arc of learning. We’ll start with a word and work our way up to the whole play. It’s lively, messy, fun, and impactful—just like learning. We’ll work with Shakespeare’s language and other complex texts, first as learners and then as teachers. Sessions will be led by Folger Mentor Teacher Corinne Viglietta.
- Discover how this way of teaching and learning can transform your classroom. We’ll spend time on the nitty-gritty of how this works in the real world, no matter the class size or level. After this Weekend Intensive, you’ll leave the Folger with lessons and Essential Practices you can use in your classroom on Monday.
- See all that’s new at the Folger Shakespeare Library, like highlights from the collection, the 82 First Folios, and a working recreation of a 17th-century printing press.
- Learn with a cutting-edge scholar of the Early Modern period. You’ll experience a lecture with Dr. Michele Osherow and be able to take things back to your classroom to deepen your students’ understanding.
- Experience a performance of Folger Theatre and Cincinnati Shakespeare’s production of A Room in the Castle, which tells the story of Ophelia, her handmaid, and Queen Gertrude. Ticket is included in your tuition fee.
Folger Mentor Teachers
Liam Dempsey
Associate Director of Education
Corinne Viglietta
Corinne Viglietta teaches Upper School English at The Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland. From 2014-2022, Corinne was Associate Director of Education at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she had the honor of exploring the wonders of language with thousands of amazing teachers, students, and visitors. Corinne played a key role in Folger’s national teaching community and school partnerships. She has led workshops on the Folger Method for numerous organizations, including the Smithsonian, National Council of Teachers of English, and American Federation of Teachers. Corinne is a lifelong Folger educator, having first discovered the power of this approach with her multilingual students in DC and France. She has degrees in English from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Maryland.
Michele Osherow
Michele Osherow (Dramaturg) Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale (2023, 2018, 2009), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Amadeus, 1 Henry IV (2019, 2008), Love’s Labor’s Lost, Nell Gwynn, King John, Macbeth (2018, 2008), The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016, 2006, 2022), texts&beheadings/ ElizabethR, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar; Fiasco Theater Company’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (dramaturg and actor), Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello (2011, 2001), Cyrano, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Hamlet, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Much Ado About Nothing, Arcadia, The Tempest, Measure for Measure (dramaturg and actor). University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Associate Professor of English.