Always makes me proud to see my former students presenting at SC Teachers of English and sharing their successes. Kerwin Johnson, you are such an inspiration to so many people including me. I can’t wait to see your next achievements. 😁♥️ #sccte2023

Forever proud of you Amy McAllister Skinner😁😘 Congratulations 🎉 on winning SC Teachers of English’s Outstanding Administrator award. #sccte2023

Congratulations 🎉 Jennifer Wells on winning the SC Teachers of English Secondary Section High School Teacher of Excellence Award. Your positive energy and optimism inspires your students and colleagues. #sccte2023

Frankenmonster fun today in #aplit as the students brought their Frankenfamily creations to life #cfhs #allaboutthesymbolism

Teachers shouldn’t have to set up wishlists each year to get supplies for students in their classrooms. When corporations need pens and printer ink, they don’t run to social media and beg for supplies. #clearthelist by making sure the 💰 gets to the classrooms in the first place

For perspective, I took REAL stories about teachers and just replaced them with other professions. If you think these are insane, then you should feel the same when it is about teachers...

Need a way to get to know your students? Check out this community builder that uses Dr. Clint Smith poem "Something You Should Know" as a mentor text. Created by Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓, designed by yours truly, and it's free! #TeachLivingPoets Click here: bit.ly/3nzTQcu

Hoping year 29 will be the best one yet😁

We made it to the first Friday🎉😬🏁 #cfpantherlife #corgis #1stweekofschool

I’m amazed at teacher contracts…specifically what little time (prep) is provided for teachers to actually get stuff done. If teachers ONLY worked contractual hours, 90% of the needed work wouldn’t happen even for the most efficient ones. 🤔

I understand that everyone has to die. Today, I found out that I didn’t think of Louise as an everyone. Safe travels to the stylish lady with the relentless lines who loved Otis Redding & Aretha Franklin & RHOA & once told me THERE ARE NO LAWS AGAINST SADNESS! #LouiseGluck

I still have my battered anthology of poems from my first college poetry class and looking back at the annotations a much younger me left on this poem reminded me of the first time I was introduced #LouiseGlück ‘s work. Thank you♥️ poetryfoundation.org/poems/49610/th…

Let’s talk teaching ELA Grade Level and Favorite texts to teach: Seniors Beowulf (Heaney translation) Short Story: Good County People Novel: The Road Poem: Pass On by Michael Lee, anything by Marcus Amaker or Rudy Francisco or Plath Play: Othello and The Glass Menagerie

In this week’s March Madness Poetry Bracket, Clint Smith’s poem, “Here Nor There,” and Phil Kaye’s, “Before the Internet,” move on to the next round. #teachlivingpoets #aplit

Fine then, I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all. —Ada Limón poets.org/poem/instructi…