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Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach
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Each and every day teachers show up in their classrooms with a relentless sense of optimism. Despite the complicated challenges of schools, they come to and remain in the profession inspired by a conviction that through education they can move individuals and society to a more promising future.
In Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach a diverse group of ninety teachers describe the complex of emotions and experiences of the teaching life – joy, outrage, heartbreak, hope, commitment and dedication. Each heartfelt commentary is paired with a cherished poem selected by the teacher. The contributors represent a broad array of educators: K-12 teachers, principals, superintendents, college professors, as well as many non-traditional teachers. They range from first year teachers to mid-career veterans to those who have retired after decades in the classroom. They come from inner-city, suburban, charter and private schools.
The teachers identified an eclectic collection of poems and poets from Emily Dickinson, to Richard Wright, to Mary Oliver to the rapper Tupac Shakur. It is a book by teachers and for all who teach.
The book also includes a poignant Foreword by Parker J. Palmer (The Courage to Teach), a stirring Introduction by Taylor Mali (What Teachers Make), and a moving Afterword by Sarah Brown Wessling (Teaching Channel).
Where Teaching with Fire honored and celebrated the work of teachers; Teaching with Heart salutes the tenacious and relentless optimism of teachers and their belief that despite the many challenges and obstacles of the teaching life, much is possible. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
A Note to Our Readers (Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner)
Foreword (Parker J. Palmer)
Introduction (Taylor Mali)
ch. 1 Relentless Optimism
Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” reflection (Randi Weingarten)
Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues” reflection (Stephen Lazar)
Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love” [Excerpt] reflection (Rachel Willis)
Edgar Lee Masters’s “George Gray” reflection (Mel Glenn)
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” reflection (Kaitlin Roig)
Rudyard Kipling’s “if” reflection (Andy Wood)
Loris Malaguzzi’s “No Way. The Hundred is There.” reflection (Tiffany Poirier)
Gerald Jonas’s “Lessons” reflection (Julie A. Gorlewski)
Taylor Mali’s “What Teachers Make” reflection (Kevin Hodgson)
ch. 2 Teachable Moments
Rainier Maria Rilke’s “All will come again into its strength” reflection (Gregory John)
Richard Wilbur’s “The Writer” reflection (Emily Brisse)
Theodore Roethke’s “The Waking” reflection (Nora Landon)
Emily Dickinson’s “’Tis so much joy! ’Tis so much joy!”
reflection (Lily Eskelsen García)
Paul Boswell’s “This Splendid Speck” reflection (Christine Intagliata)
Stanley Kunitz’s “Halley’s Comet” reflection (Rob Maitra)
Emily Dickinson’s “If I can stop one Heart from breaking” reflection (Annette Breaux)
John O’Donohue’s “Beannacht” reflection (Emanuel Pariser)
D. H. Lawrence’s “The Best of School” reflection (Tom Vander Ark)
ch. 3 Beauty in the Ordinary
Fernando Pessoa’s “To Be Great, Be Entire” reflection (Vicki Den Ouden)
Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Famous” reflection (Safaa Abdel-Magid)
Pablo Neruda’s “In Praise of Ironing” reflection (Cindy O’Donnell-Allen)
Louise Glück’s “Aubade” reflection (Kent Dickson)
W. H. Auden’s “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” [Excerpt] reflection (Jamie Raskin)
Stephen Crane’s “LVIII” reflection (Liam Corley)
Mary Oliver’s “Crossing the Swamp” reflection (Maureen Geraghty)
Philip Levine’s “What Work Is” reflection (Holly Masturzo)
Walt Whitman’s “Section II from ‘Song of Myself’ ” reflection (Jennifer Boyden)
ch. 4 Enduring Impact
Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Kindness” reflection (Hannah Cushing)
Margaret Atwood’s “You Begin” reflection (Karen Harris)
Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Please Call Me by My True Names” reflection (Ruth Charney)
William Stafford’s “Deciding” reflection (Michael Poutiatine)
Li-Young Lee’s “Eating Together” reflection (Wanda S. Praisner)
John O’Donohue’s “Blessing: For Presence” reflection (David Henderson)
Tara Sophia Mohr’s “Your Other Name” reflection (Lianne Raymond)
Jim R. Rogers’s “Good Morning!” reflection (Jane Zalkin)
Galway Kinnell’s “Saint Francis and the Sow” reflection (Kirsten Olson)
ch. 5 The Work Is Hard
Antonio Machado’s “VI” reflection (Michael L. Crauderueff)
Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” reflection (Kathleen Melville)
Calvin Coolidge’s “Persistence” reflection (April Niemela)
Sharon Olds’s “On the Subway” reflection (Lori Ungemah)
Anonymous’s “Work Gloves” reflection (Tom Meyer)
William Stafford’s “Next Time” reflection (Leanne Grabel Sander)
Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark—” reflection (Rachel Fentin)
Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” reflection (Ronald Gordon)
Wislawa Szymborska’s “Life While-You-Wait” reflection (Veta Goler)
ch. 6 Tenacity
Tupac Shakur’s “The Rose That Grew from Concrete” reflection (Jose Vilson)
Philip Levine’s “M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit, 1942” reflection (Laura Roop)
Mel King’s “Struggle” reflection (Susan Rodgerson)
Langston Hughes’s “Theme for English B” reflection (Paola Tineo)
Irene Rutherford McLeod’s “Lone Dog” reflection (LouAnne Johnson)
Billy Collins’s “On Turning Ten” reflection (Will Bangs)
Edgar A. Guest’s “It Couldn’t Be Done” reflection (Glendean Hamilton)
Lao-Tzu’s “On Leadership” reflection (Larry Rosenstock)
William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus” reflection (Caridad Caro)
ch. 7 Feisty
Rumi’s “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing” reflection (Hugh Birdsall) Mary Oliver’s “The Poet Dreams of the Classroom” reflection (Katie Johnson)
Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son” reflection (Ron Walker)
Jane Kenyon’s “Otherwise” reflection (Alison Overseth)
Richard Brautigan’s “The Memoirs of Jessie James” reflection (Stephen Mahoney)
Marge Piercy’s “To be of use” reflection (Amy Christie)
Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” reflection (Mary Beth Hertz)
Olive Senior’s “Colonial Girls School” reflection (Dena Simmons)
The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell’s “An Innocent Freedom Writer” reflection (Kayleigh Colombero)
ch. 8 Moment to Moment
Bill Holm’s “Advice” reflection (Teri O’Donnell) Katha Pollitt’s “Lilacs in September” reflection (David S. Goldstein)
Herman Hesse’s “The Ferryman” reflection (Rachel Boechler)
Mark Nepo’s “The Appointment” reflection (Judy Sorum Brown)
Captain Ed Davidson’s “Footprints by the Sea” reflection (Sandi Bisceglia)
Rumi’s “The Guest House” reflection (Richard H. Ackerman)
Chuang Tzu’s “Flight from the Shadow” reflection (Mark Bielang) Thomas Merton’s “In Silence” reflection (Thomas A. Stewart)
Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love” reflection (Tim Ryan)
ch. 9 Together
John Daniel’s “A Prayer among Friends” reflection (Melissa Madenski)
Maya Angelou’s “Alone” reflection (Nina Ashur)
Stephen Dunn’s “The Sacred” reflection (Dan Mindich)
James A. Autry’s “On Firing A Salesman” reflection (Brian Dixon)
Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to make much of Time” reflection (Cordell Jones)
Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats” reflection (Kathleen Glaser)
Raymond Carver’s “Happiness” reflection by (Dennis Huffman)
X. J. Kennedy’s “Little Elegy” reflection (Kenneth Rocke)
Mel Glenn’s “A Teacher’s Contract” reflection (Harriet Sanford)
ch. 10 Called to Teach
Gary Snyder’s “For the Children” reflection (Julia Hill)
Maya Angelou’s “The Lesson” reflection (Jovan Miles)
Gregory Orr’s “It’s not magic; it isn’t a trick” reflection (John Mayer)
Judy Sorum Brown’s “Hummingbirds asleep” reflection (Sandie Merriam)
John Fox’s “When Someone Deeply Listens to You” reflection (Nell Etheredge)
Alexis Rotella’s “Purple” reflection (Leatha Fields-Carey)
William Stafford’s “The Way It Is” reflection (Donna Y. Chin)
Langston Hughes’s “I loved my friend” reflection (Margaret Wilson)
Wendell Berry’s “The Real Work” reflection (Amy Harter)
ch. 11 Using Poetry for Reflection and Conversation
Afterword by Sarah Brown Wessling
Center for Courage & Renewal
The Contributors
The Editors
Gratitudes
Credits
Each and every day teachers show up in their classrooms with a relentless sense of optimism. Despite the complicated challenges of schools, they come to and remain in the profession inspired by a conviction that through education they can move individuals and society to a more promising future.
In Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach a diverse group of ninety teachers describe the complex of emotions and experiences of the teaching life – joy, outrage, heartbreak, hope, commitment and dedication. Each heartfelt commentary is paired with a cherished poem selected by the teacher. The contributors represent a broad array of educators: K-12 teachers, principals, superintendents, college professors, as well as many non-traditional teachers. They range from first year teachers to mid-career veterans to those who have retired after decades in the classroom. They come from inner-city, suburban, charter and private schools.
The teachers identified an eclectic collection of poems and poets from Emily Dickinson, to Richard Wright, to Mary Oliver to the rapper Tupac Shakur. It is a book by teachers and for all who teach.
The book also includes a poignant Foreword by Parker J. Palmer (The Courage to Teach), a stirring Introduction by Taylor Mali (What Teachers Make), and a moving Afterword by Sarah Brown Wessling (Teaching Channel).
Where Teaching with Fire honored and celebrated the work of teachers; Teaching with Heart salutes the tenacious and relentless optimism of teachers and their belief that despite the many challenges and obstacles of the teaching life, much is possible. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
A Note to Our Readers (Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner)
Foreword (Parker J. Palmer)
Introduction (Taylor Mali)
ch. 1 Relentless Optimism
Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” reflection (Randi Weingarten)
Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues” reflection (Stephen Lazar)
Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love” [Excerpt] reflection (Rachel Willis)
Edgar Lee Masters’s “George Gray” reflection (Mel Glenn)
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” reflection (Kaitlin Roig)
Rudyard Kipling’s “if” reflection (Andy Wood)
Loris Malaguzzi’s “No Way. The Hundred is There.” reflection (Tiffany Poirier)
Gerald Jonas’s “Lessons” reflection (Julie A. Gorlewski)
Taylor Mali’s “What Teachers Make” reflection (Kevin Hodgson)
ch. 2 Teachable Moments
Rainier Maria Rilke’s “All will come again into its strength” reflection (Gregory John)
Richard Wilbur’s “The Writer” reflection (Emily Brisse)
Theodore Roethke’s “The Waking” reflection (Nora Landon)
Emily Dickinson’s “’Tis so much joy! ’Tis so much joy!”
reflection (Lily Eskelsen García)
Paul Boswell’s “This Splendid Speck” reflection (Christine Intagliata)
Stanley Kunitz’s “Halley’s Comet” reflection (Rob Maitra)
Emily Dickinson’s “If I can stop one Heart from breaking” reflection (Annette Breaux)
John O’Donohue’s “Beannacht” reflection (Emanuel Pariser)
D. H. Lawrence’s “The Best of School” reflection (Tom Vander Ark)
ch. 3 Beauty in the Ordinary
Fernando Pessoa’s “To Be Great, Be Entire” reflection (Vicki Den Ouden)
Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Famous” reflection (Safaa Abdel-Magid)
Pablo Neruda’s “In Praise of Ironing” reflection (Cindy O’Donnell-Allen)
Louise Glück’s “Aubade” reflection (Kent Dickson)
W. H. Auden’s “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” [Excerpt] reflection (Jamie Raskin)
Stephen Crane’s “LVIII” reflection (Liam Corley)
Mary Oliver’s “Crossing the Swamp” reflection (Maureen Geraghty)
Philip Levine’s “What Work Is” reflection (Holly Masturzo)
Walt Whitman’s “Section II from ‘Song of Myself’ ” reflection (Jennifer Boyden)
ch. 4 Enduring Impact
Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Kindness” reflection (Hannah Cushing)
Margaret Atwood’s “You Begin” reflection (Karen Harris)
Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Please Call Me by My True Names” reflection (Ruth Charney)
William Stafford’s “Deciding” reflection (Michael Poutiatine)
Li-Young Lee’s “Eating Together” reflection (Wanda S. Praisner)
John O’Donohue’s “Blessing: For Presence” reflection (David Henderson)
Tara Sophia Mohr’s “Your Other Name” reflection (Lianne Raymond)
Jim R. Rogers’s “Good Morning!” reflection (Jane Zalkin)
Galway Kinnell’s “Saint Francis and the Sow” reflection (Kirsten Olson)
ch. 5 The Work Is Hard
Antonio Machado’s “VI” reflection (Michael L. Crauderueff)
Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” reflection (Kathleen Melville)
Calvin Coolidge’s “Persistence” reflection (April Niemela)
Sharon Olds’s “On the Subway” reflection (Lori Ungemah)
Anonymous’s “Work Gloves” reflection (Tom Meyer)
William Stafford’s “Next Time” reflection (Leanne Grabel Sander)
Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark—” reflection (Rachel Fentin)
Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” reflection (Ronald Gordon)
Wislawa Szymborska’s “Life While-You-Wait” reflection (Veta Goler)
ch. 6 Tenacity
Tupac Shakur’s “The Rose That Grew from Concrete” reflection (Jose Vilson)
Philip Levine’s “M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit, 1942” reflection (Laura Roop)
Mel King’s “Struggle” reflection (Susan Rodgerson)
Langston Hughes’s “Theme for English B” reflection (Paola Tineo)
Irene Rutherford McLeod’s “Lone Dog” reflection (LouAnne Johnson)
Billy Collins’s “On Turning Ten” reflection (Will Bangs)
Edgar A. Guest’s “It Couldn’t Be Done” reflection (Glendean Hamilton)
Lao-Tzu’s “On Leadership” reflection (Larry Rosenstock)
William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus” reflection (Caridad Caro)
ch. 7 Feisty
Rumi’s “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing” reflection (Hugh Birdsall) Mary Oliver’s “The Poet Dreams of the Classroom” reflection (Katie Johnson)
Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son” reflection (Ron Walker)
Jane Kenyon’s “Otherwise” reflection (Alison Overseth)
Richard Brautigan’s “The Memoirs of Jessie James” reflection (Stephen Mahoney)
Marge Piercy’s “To be of use” reflection (Amy Christie)
Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” reflection (Mary Beth Hertz)
Olive Senior’s “Colonial Girls School” reflection (Dena Simmons)
The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell’s “An Innocent Freedom Writer” reflection (Kayleigh Colombero)
ch. 8 Moment to Moment
Bill Holm’s “Advice” reflection (Teri O’Donnell) Katha Pollitt’s “Lilacs in September” reflection (David S. Goldstein)
Herman Hesse’s “The Ferryman” reflection (Rachel Boechler)
Mark Nepo’s “The Appointment” reflection (Judy Sorum Brown)
Captain Ed Davidson’s “Footprints by the Sea” reflection (Sandi Bisceglia)
Rumi’s “The Guest House” reflection (Richard H. Ackerman)
Chuang Tzu’s “Flight from the Shadow” reflection (Mark Bielang) Thomas Merton’s “In Silence” reflection (Thomas A. Stewart)
Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love” reflection (Tim Ryan)
ch. 9 Together
John Daniel’s “A Prayer among Friends” reflection (Melissa Madenski)
Maya Angelou’s “Alone” reflection (Nina Ashur)
Stephen Dunn’s “The Sacred” reflection (Dan Mindich)
James A. Autry’s “On Firing A Salesman” reflection (Brian Dixon)
Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to make much of Time” reflection (Cordell Jones)
Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats” reflection (Kathleen Glaser)
Raymond Carver’s “Happiness” reflection by (Dennis Huffman)
X. J. Kennedy’s “Little Elegy” reflection (Kenneth Rocke)
Mel Glenn’s “A Teacher’s Contract” reflection (Harriet Sanford)
ch. 10 Called to Teach
Gary Snyder’s “For the Children” reflection (Julia Hill)
Maya Angelou’s “The Lesson” reflection (Jovan Miles)
Gregory Orr’s “It’s not magic; it isn’t a trick” reflection (John Mayer)
Judy Sorum Brown’s “Hummingbirds asleep” reflection (Sandie Merriam)
John Fox’s “When Someone Deeply Listens to You” reflection (Nell Etheredge)
Alexis Rotella’s “Purple” reflection (Leatha Fields-Carey)
William Stafford’s “The Way It Is” reflection (Donna Y. Chin)
Langston Hughes’s “I loved my friend” reflection (Margaret Wilson)
Wendell Berry’s “The Real Work” reflection (Amy Harter)
ch. 11 Using Poetry for Reflection and Conversation
Afterword by Sarah Brown Wessling
Center for Courage & Renewal
The Contributors
The Editors
Gratitudes
Credits