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public education & teaching teachers ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
This is how teachers learn best: caffeine & reflection :). Well, at least the teachers I know ~ This week I helped with a two-day workshop with teachers in a town near here — one of the many small Oklahoma towns (population about 2,000 or so) that are fighting lack of funding as they try…
poetry and the new Poet Laureate ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
There’s a new US Poet Laureate — Philip Levine. This may not be earth-shaking to many, but to a poet, whose vanity plate gives her ‘POETIC’ license, it’s HUGE :). And I like Levine’s work. I never like all of someone’s work — not even my own :). And Levine’s mentor was a poet I’m…
lost journals, Alzheimer’s and hope ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I lost my journal yesterday. Now, in the spectrum of griefs, on a day when almost 100 people lost their lives in Norway, this is a very tiny blip. It’s just paper, w/ some words and drawings and pasted-in ephemera. Perhaps because so many of the elders in my family had Alzheimer’s, losing memories is…
the wind, ventifacts & advice to a young teacher ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’ve been trying to spend time outside each day, even if it’s only to sit and watch the birds jostle each other at the various feeders. And I’ve been thinking about wind — always a presence in Oklahoma. If I’d had this word yesterday, it certainly would have been in yesterday’s post. The word is…
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