Now, More Than Ever
Breathe
in hope,
then exhale
your gratitude.
Remember these truths:
students over standards,
patience over procedures,
compassion over compliance,
care over content, and grace over
gimmicks. We must humanize our teaching.
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2020
This poem is an etheree. It is also a found poem, comprised of bits of a post I read on the Nextdoor app, and this tweet by Shana V. White:
I see this happening in at least one place...in my principal, whose motto has always been, "Whatever you do, don't get us in the paper," and who is now using words like SCREAM and RIDICULOUS to talk about some of the processes and protocols our system is insisting on. Progress!
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