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What makes a teacher great?

A skilled teacher has a willingness to let students’ natural curiosities and skills emerge to the forefront of learning during class time. Curriculum is important, but the students’ buy-in is more so.

Wicked Winds

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Cherry blossoms sometimes curl, dry, and fly away
Plans crash amongst the tides despite our calm agendas

Who said there’d be no wicked winds
What sacred book of days ever promised perfect

We arrive and pass this way on our way to leaving
Fruit and blue-green golden hours coursing through our veins

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What notable things happened today?

Four days ‘til my 56th birthday, and it finally dawned on me today that this storm is not without God’s presence.

A Like

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We are Earth
We are red rock
We’re what stars say in mid-night talks

We are wind
Elevation
Poignant, patient, punctuation

Fly sky, loud clouds

Crowns found

Why cry

We are fire
We are pow’rlines
We’re collaborators, and we’ll be fine

Inspiration Credit: Sage Student Schoolwork; Tiger R., age 10

Habu

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hey we had fun
humble spaces
lavish places

but awful, was nebraska — as bad medicine

Oh, the rush and push from heav’n to Hell
along the way, the in-between
where love was a yes and and a No

let’s close our eyes and sleep, my friend
then, wake and give this a go, again

Nomad Man

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“Darlin’” My Treasures weren’t yours to define
My Triangular Teak three-dimensional lines

My Plush Orange/Grey comfort, my zippy Red Car
You neither valued up close nor afar

My soul, Smooth and Square, and as soft as White Leather
You’ll dream, breathe, and walk each day, giv’n to none better

My Tall, choicest Chairs to join me at my Table
Who’d have known you’d sit dormant…in a basement…unable

My Keys you possess, they are all-heart-shaped still
That you’d give back My Pieces — I have no faith you will