Barbara has worked as a visiting poet in over 60 school districts in Massachusetts including Andover, Beverly, Boston, Brookline, Duxbury, Hingham, Newton, and Sharon. Her programs with students, teachers and families include reading and writing workshops in Childhood Memory, Parenting, and Watchfulness.

"Barbara Hyett has been one of the most outstanding artists participating in the Artists-In-Residence Program, funded by the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Her passion and skill in teaching children to write poetry is remarkable and widely known. Everywhere I go, from the Museum of Fine Arts to the homes of friends, I hear enthusiastic testimony of Barbara's talent in bringing poetry to people through teaching and reading. As a compliment to her role as teacher, Barbara has also edited several volumes of children's poetry."
- Anne Hawley, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and
Humanities

"I cannot speak highly enough of the work which Ms. Hyett did with the students and the teachers in these settings. Her sensitivities to multiracial and multi-cultural situations were outstanding. We have letters in our files from the principals of each school commending her work. At one school Ms. Hyett's work was so admired by the principal that he credited her program with raising all of the students' reading scores on the city-wide tests."
- Polly Price Rabinowitz, Executive Director, Cultural Education Collaborative,
Boston

"I have never seen anyone conduct a class by the workshop method better than Barbara does it. Every teacher of writing, no matter how experienced, can learn something from her."
- James Buechler, former English Department Head, Duxbury

"She believes passionately that each student, albeit adult or child, has a dynamic creative potential and she truly enjoys discovering and revealing this ability."
- Martha M. Wright, Department of Education, Museum of Fine Arts.