Weekly Wide-Awake: How to Revolution

[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!

Melanie Faith

Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.

Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.

The Society of Professional Journalists

In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.

I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.

Maxine Greene

Philosopher and Education Scholar

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Weekly Wide-Awake: How to Revolution

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.
Joy Harjo

This week I want to think about revolution. The revolution that is fall. The revolution that is creativity. The revolution that is discovery. The revolution that is our work. The revolution that is our history. The revolution that is the hummingbird and the elephant and cheetah. The revolution that lives between as if and not yet. The revolution that smells like possibility and courage. The revolution that tastes like vulnerability and forgiveness. The revolution that sounds like a hymn or prayer. The revolution that is new like morning. The revolution that is vulnerable like truth. The revolution that is strong like scar tissue. The revolution that is boundless like joy.

We have the power for revolution.

Thank you Joy Harjo for reminding me of the power of revolution.

Weekly Wide-Awake: How to Revolution

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