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Back in February, I came across the poetry of Taylor Mali, but have been thinking about his work again recently. My first exposure to his work was a performance of The Problem With Teachers… (low bandwidth version here), his reply to some teacher-bashing. His web site contains a few audio and video versions of his work, as well as several in text format.

Empowering? I hate the word and feel that it is terribly overused. I would say inspiring and powerful. I shared a few of Mr. Mali’s works with my fellow staff and they were equally moved.

Taylor Mali wants to create 1000 new teachers by 2006. Will he make it? Well, I don’t know about that, but his words have kept me energized a couple of times when I needed it. Now, as I think about returning to school in a couple of weeks, I am trying to re-energize myself and think again about what it means to me to be a teacher.

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