{"id":94714,"date":"2021-06-26T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94714"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:35:00","slug":"the-most-important-lessons-cant-be-found-in-any-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-most-important-lessons-cant-be-found-in-any-textbook\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe most important lessons can\u2019t be found in any textbook.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave up using textbooks<br \/>\nlong ago<br \/>\nRelying instead<br \/>\non the lives lived<br \/>\nby my students<br \/>\nto fuel their imaginations<br \/>\nand motivations<\/p>\n<p>Allowing them the freedom<br \/>\nto sort through traumas<br \/>\nof the past and explore hope<br \/>\nfor their futures<br \/>\nour conversations became<br \/>\nthe basis of learning<br \/>\nvalidating and affirming<\/p>\n<p>We share in teaching<br \/>\nbetween lines of compound<br \/>\ncomplex and simple sentences<br \/>\nlearning the flexibility<br \/>\nof the comma to add<br \/>\nof the colon to announce<br \/>\nof the semicolon to gently separate<\/p>\n<p>The period draws an end<br \/>\nbut also leads to new beginnings<br \/>\neach line shaping their experiences<br \/>\ngiving voice to thought &amp; feeling<br \/>\neach line influencing my perceptions<br \/>\ngiving insight and understanding<\/p>\n<p>There is no textbook in the world<br \/>\nmore informed than the one<br \/>\nwe each write of our own lives<br \/>\neach page a revelation<br \/>\neach page a possibility<br \/>\nof what it all could mean<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 9: Take a common saying like \u201cTo get lost is to learn the way\u201d or \u201cDon\u2019t count your chickens before they hatch\u201d or \u201cThis too shall pass,\u201d as the basis of writing a poem.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave up using textbooks long ago Relying instead on the lives lived by my students to fuel their imaginations and motivations Allowing them the freedom to sort through traumas of the past and explore hope for their futures our conversations became the basis of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94789,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94714\/revisions\/94789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}