RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Praise Song for Teachers: A Call to Action
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 321
OP 324
DO 10.17763/haer.79.2.k35124m041p202q3
VO 79
IS 2
A1 White, Ariane
YR 2009
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/79/2/321.abstract
AB When she received our call for submissions, high school educator Ariane White saw it as a pedagogical as well as an artistic opportunity. Moved by the shift in the country's leadership, she chose to express her reaction in the following poem. She then used her poem as a teaching and organizing tool, sharing it with colleagues and students in an effort to inspire them to engage creatively with this moment in history. In her poem, a variation on the inaugural "praise song," White calls on teachers to renew their commitment to nurturing all young people in their pursuit to experience the richness of life.