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Education and living with Purpose

Purposeful thoughts on advocating for middle school students. Some write blogs on how to be a good educator, I would like to focus on why.  




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Write This Down!

3/8/2016

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A poem inspired by Taylor Mali at the MAMSE conference March 4,  2016
Brown elbow patches
Red Ralph Lauren corduroy blazer
East Coast poet strides the floor
Singsong voice rising in pitch

Invokes images of fire, jumpers, 7th grade boys, girls and pens
Ragged emotion-gladius of battle
Teaching us to teach again.
We sit in folding chairs rapt in words.
He is sage on the stage today.
Force, matter, motion,
Physics drives individuals.
Physics slams poets.


“Write this down!” he says-
A truth he just recalled.
“Poetry is written to be heard first.”
Nouns, concrete, broken objects you can throw
Assuage our ears
Write this down.
Lingered like a reluctant school girl.
Write this down.
Pedaled like a rusty tricycle on two wheels
Write this down.
Commenced like a valedictorian.
Write this down.
Write this.
Write.


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    Lori Hartman is a lifetime educator and a possibility advocate.  She earned a Master of Arts  in Counseling Education Counseling Psychology from Western Michigan University and is an L.P.C.


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