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Each year, more than two million teachers and students engage in our in-person workshops, lesson plans, online classes, and the best-selling Folger Editions of Shakespeare’s plays.
For four decades, our programs and resources have supported teachers in all kinds of schools and students of all abilities, both locally and nationally.
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New resources
Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare
This new series offers educators fresh insights, innovative tools, and detailed lesson plans for teaching some of Shakespeare’s most frequently taught plays.
Teaching with the Folger Method
The Folger Method is a way of teaching complex texts that enables all students to own—and enjoy—the process of reading closely, interrogating texts, discovering language with peers, and contributing to the ongoing human conversation about words and ideas. It is a radical engine for equity that teachers consistently call “transformative.”
Learn more about the principles and practices that make up the Folger Method and get started!
Upcoming professional development
All the Folger’s a Classroom: Teacher Weekend Intensive on Shakespeare’s Comedies
Othello and Storytelling: Who Gets to Speak?
As You Like It: Finding Joy, Freedom, and Voice
Resources for teachers
Teachers do the most important work on Earth. Come, explore the myriad of resources and programming we have created and curated for you and your students. Get ready to set your students on fire with excitement about literature. Yes, Shakespeare, and oh, so much more!
Teacher Membership
Become a Folger Teacher Member and join the Folger in a special way: gain access to hundreds of classroom resources, professional development discounts, and more!
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Lesson plans
Explore lesson plans that get students grappling on their own with a wide range of complex texts. Become an expert on teaching anything the Folger way, including Shakespeare.
Professional development
Folger Education offers in-person and virtual options for professional development. We have a range of options to fit your schedule, whether you’re teaching in the Washington, DC, area or elsewhere in the United States.
Student programs
Students are at the heart of our work. Folger’s work with students has spanned more than 40 years and students are a driving force behind our work.
Undergraduate teaching resources
Explore these tools for teaching, planning, and enhancing the undergraduate classroom! The Folger has resources related to a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including Early Modern Critical Race, Early Modern Food Studies, Book History, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Drama.