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As part of teacher appreciation month, Morning Edition asked NPR's audience to write a poem about teachers who have had an impact on their lives. We put out this call a week before the mass ...
Which leads us to this amazing poem about teachers. Warning: There is some mild profanity near the end. The fascinating spoken words poem is done by Taylor Mali who writes about this project ...
Now we want to hear from you about a teacher who has impacted you in ways big or small. Send us your appreciation as a poem. It can be any form — a haiku, a free verse, an epistolary ...
As she explained in her video, the teacher presented Wade with a new tissue packet and taped onto it was a printed poem. Tavia Wade shared a TikTok post about a poem her daughter’s kindergarten ...
"She handed me a poem stapled to a small pack of Kleenex tissues. It was so thoughtful. I tried my best to hold it together while my daughter was meeting her teacher and settling into her class." ...
Yorktown High School English and creative writing teacher Melanie McCabe read a selection of poems from her first book, “History of the Body,” at Westover Branch Library on Monday, Jan. 7.
The poem was titled “Dear Minister” and dealt with a teacher’s working conditions. This poem was supposed to be performed by Zoriah Martindale, but she was denied the opportunity after the ...
A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... Schoolchildren would stand and recite approved works for their teachers and peers. That kind of learning has mostly gone out of fashion ...