Recently, Wendy Coakley-Thompson interviewed me for the Washington, DC Publishing Industry Examiner about education, writing, and how my passions intersect:
2. In what ways do both poetry and education writings satisfy your need for creative self-expression?
Poetry satisfies my more creative urges, where I get to play with the more ethereal, the emotional, the wedges where I don’t have to be professional, or, more succinctly, where I can be the me that my friends know. My education writing touches on the professional, but I also get to do things within that sphere that not many do. I get to mix the events that happen in the classroom and juxtapose them with what happened outside of it, and present it to people who don’t normally think about that.
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Jose, who is a writer and a math teacher, without contradiction in those spaces …
I love this C&H cartoon – never seen it before. As somebody who edits teacher writing just about every day, I can say with confidence that 90% of K12 teachers don’t write this way. The other 10% aspire to become “higher” educators. 8^)=
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Nice to know. I strive to be high. Take that how you will. :-)