Curricula
Glow Horse Learning provides coaching, consultation, pedagogy workshops, and training for critical thinking, writing, and creative engagement in the specialty topics listed below. Learning resource opportunities in each field include the development of primary and secondary bibliographies, syllabi, and assignment arcs tailored to match grade levels, cultural foci, school board standards, and educational goals. Additional materials based on Glow Horses's curricula can be found via our learning blog and on social media.
Academic Writing
This GH curriculum focuses on buildable skillsets for argumentation, research practices, analysis, thesis, and topic development. Together, we make your teaching of research papers stronger.
Critical Storytelling
This GH curriculum focuses on crafting complex arguments, research, and high-stakes discourse through narrative forms, generative creative practices, and hybrid genre writing approaches. Together, we make your teaching of original thought and analytic writing stronger.
Creative Writing
This GH curriculum focuses on innovative, critical-creative approaches to fiction, poetry, non-fiction, play-, and screenwriting across multiple genres, cultures, and eras. Together, we engage writing as an art, analytic resource, and widespread application to make your teaching of creative writing stronger.
Video Essays
This GH curriculum focuses on the rising multimodal genres of video essays, social media reels, and internet forums as key opportunities for learning valuable transferrable skillsets for creative content writing, research-backed posts, and digital production methods. Together, we demystify digital humanities, reshape screen time into a resource, and strengthen your teaching of new internet genres.
World Literature
This GH curriculum focuses on shared mythologies and takes up a refreshed approach to world literature by taking down boundaries between eras, hemispheres, and kingdoms. Together, we make your teaching of global storytelling stronger.
Shakespeare
This GH curriculum shakes up Shakespeare and takes 'the Bard' next-level with new activities and strategies for engaging his popular hits, deep-cut treasures, and all the world between. Together, we make your teaching of this 'ye olde' keystone stronger and (forsooth!) cooler.
The Renaissance
This GH curriculum takes a "renaissance" approach to the Renaissance (1300-1700), focusing on widespread global paradigm shifts through the lenses of literature, history, art, science, games, and creative writing. Together, we not only strengthen your teaching of this era, we simulate multimodal participation in its radical refashioning of knowledge and culture.
History of Science
This GH curriculum takes an interdisciplinary route through global chronicles of invention, discovery, and innovation. The outcome is hands-on engagement with scientific studies, historical documents, and cultural narratives of the natural world. Together, we not only strengthen your teaching of the history of science, but also hone your skills for interdisciplinary course design and pedagogy.
Contemporary Literature
This GH curriculum focuses on stories and lyrics crafted in the last 25+ years by weaving the classic genres of short fiction and verse alongside the rising genres of slam poetry and graphic novels. Together, we make your teaching of current trends and evolutions in literature stronger.
Natural Histories,
Natural Futures
This GH curriculum focuses on intersections between mediations of the natural world in Renaissance Europe and global cultures surrounding nature in the 21st century. Together, we making your teaching of eco-storytelling around the world stronger.
Monsters!
Time to shine, monster fans! Creatures and critters go next-level as this GH curriculum weaves monster theory and literature into a multimedia frame. Together, we build an approach that not only strengthens your teaching of monsters, but also reinvigorates boilerplate and survey classes with a twist!
Epic Poetry
This GH curriculum focuses on the shape and role of epic poetry in cultural imaginations around the world across the ages. Ranging from floods, to faith, to monsters, this curriculum creates a through-line of triumph, tragedy, and transformation. Together, we make your teaching of canonical cornerstones bring them to life and light.
Literature of Witness, Trauma, War, & Survival
This GH curriculum aims to bring trauma discourse to an accessible scale with navigable terms. Following GH's trajectory, the difficult subjects, including war, riots, the pandemic, and cultural violence, can come to the forefront for cathartic, thoughtful discussion and exploration. Together, we embolden and back you up in your teaching of difficult, sensitive materials.
Eco-Literature
This GH curriculum reworks ecocriticism to have an expansive reach and buildable frame and builds bridges between environmental narratives and STEM research across time. Together, we bolster your confidence with natural world storytelling and make your teaching of eco-literature stronger.
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SHARKS
This GH curriculum is committed to sharing the unsung past of sharks and underscoring their role in worldwide ecosystems and human history alike. Together, we take a footnote about 'Jaws' and strengthen it into an expansive, beautiful narrative that teaches key lesson about the natural world and the part that humans play within it.
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