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Dispatches from Frontier Schools

Sarah Beddow

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Description:Dispatches from Frontier Schools is a collection of poems that pulls the reader right into the brutalities, and beauty, of teaching in a struggling charter school. With humor, wit, tears, anger, exhaustion, elation, and a refusal to give up, these poems highlight the struggles of a teacher trying to maintain her dignity and her identity and do right by her students and her own children—while being pulled apart by a system that doesn’t support or defend teachers. More than just an anthem for teachers, however, this collection is a cry for all women who try to give all they can to everything and everyone.********Sarah Beddow’s debut full-length collection, Dispatches from Frontier Schools, is an incredibly important contribution to our public discussions about education in the United States. Her testimony, these poems, makes evident the myriad and deeply troubling flaws in our public school system(s) and highlights all the ways students are dragged through schooling that serves no one by stressing expediency, rote memorization, and parroting over intellectual challenge and critical thinking: “A. is angry with me because / I made her read this book / and this conversation hurt / her / It hurts me / too,” laments Beddow.And behind their desks (and in their cars, and in their homes, grading papers late at night), Beddow shows us, again and again, that teachers are asked to hold an unsustainable amount of emotional, physical, and intellectual space for trends disguised as pedagogy, reactive administrative demands, and student needs that surpass the scope and breadth of K-12 training. These poems are brutal, laying bare the tragic and terrible ways our country is failing us all. But they are also full of moments that are often missing in contemporary education – like humility, compassion, and empathy: “we stand in the hallway as D. tells me / she is pregnant she is due in December She cries and covers her / face with her hands I well up but hide it by biting the inside of my bottom lip.” This book should be required reading for career administrators, board of education politicos, and all the legislators who pay little more than lip-service to our nation’s educators. These poems—unique in structure and perspective, and full of beautifully orchestrated lyric turns—are a criticism, and a call for a reckoning, to be sure. “Wait I / I know this I remember /this This is burn/out The fire / out and in its place just / a rock lined pit,” she writes in “Re: Gratitude.” “the student who says thank you is rare You / are rare / And I look him in the eyes Then /I have to leave because soon this room will / be ablaze and I have nothing left to burn.”~ Sarah Kain Gutowski, author of Fabulous Beast: PoemsIn her memoir-in-poems Dispatches from Frontier Schools, Sarah Beddow creates a vital frontline record of American education as it abuts the pandemic. Here, we meet Beddow, a woman teacher in full, frank embodiment: an educator unwilling to subsume herself entirely to the twinned demands of capitalism and data-driven academic achievement bearing down on her and her students by her charter school employer, yet one who still burns to offer her entire intellectual and energetic self to her under-resourced students. “In the Instruction and Culture Cabinet meeting I once again / melted / when the principal asked us to be a team,” she writes in the poem “Dispatch re: White Out,” “to / buy in I buy in / I always / buy in… in the end when I arrive home I don't talk to my / family like I’ve been thinking / to and instead / I write about the day / about the exhaustion / about the students we do not serve.” Throughout Dispatches from Frontier Schools, Beddow contrasts the sterile and un-seeing language of corporate education with her own vibrant, devastating personal testimonies and disclosures, granting us an intimate, eviscerating glimpse into the negotiations, struggles, heartbreaks, and joys as lived from her side of the overflowing teacher’s desk.~ Rachel Mennies, author of The Naomi LettersWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dispatches from Frontier Schools. To get started finding Dispatches from Frontier Schools, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 124

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Riot in Your Throat

Release: 2022

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Description: Dispatches from Frontier Schools is a collection of poems that pulls the reader right into the brutalities, and beauty, of teaching in a struggling charter school. With humor, wit, tears, anger, exhaustion, elation, and a refusal to give up, these poems highlight the struggles of a teacher trying to maintain her dignity and her identity and do right by her students and her own children—while being pulled apart by a system that doesn’t support or defend teachers. More than just an anthem for teachers, however, this collection is a cry for all women who try to give all they can to everything and everyone.********Sarah Beddow’s debut full-length collection, Dispatches from Frontier Schools, is an incredibly important contribution to our public discussions about education in the United States. Her testimony, these poems, makes evident the myriad and deeply troubling flaws in our public school system(s) and highlights all the ways students are dragged through schooling that serves no one by stressing expediency, rote memorization, and parroting over intellectual challenge and critical thinking: “A. is angry with me because / I made her read this book / and this conversation hurt / her / It hurts me / too,” laments Beddow.And behind their desks (and in their cars, and in their homes, grading papers late at night), Beddow shows us, again and again, that teachers are asked to hold an unsustainable amount of emotional, physical, and intellectual space for trends disguised as pedagogy, reactive administrative demands, and student needs that surpass the scope and breadth of K-12 training. These poems are brutal, laying bare the tragic and terrible ways our country is failing us all. But they are also full of moments that are often missing in contemporary education – like humility, compassion, and empathy: “we stand in the hallway as D. tells me / she is pregnant she is due in December She cries and covers her / face with her hands I well up but hide it by biting the inside of my bottom lip.” This book should be required reading for career administrators, board of education politicos, and all the legislators who pay little more than lip-service to our nation’s educators. These poems—unique in structure and perspective, and full of beautifully orchestrated lyric turns—are a criticism, and a call for a reckoning, to be sure. “Wait I / I know this I remember /this This is burn/out The fire / out and in its place just / a rock lined pit,” she writes in “Re: Gratitude.” “the student who says thank you is rare You / are rare / And I look him in the eyes Then /I have to leave because soon this room will / be ablaze and I have nothing left to burn.”~ Sarah Kain Gutowski, author of Fabulous Beast: PoemsIn her memoir-in-poems Dispatches from Frontier Schools, Sarah Beddow creates a vital frontline record of American education as it abuts the pandemic. Here, we meet Beddow, a woman teacher in full, frank embodiment: an educator unwilling to subsume herself entirely to the twinned demands of capitalism and data-driven academic achievement bearing down on her and her students by her charter school employer, yet one who still burns to offer her entire intellectual and energetic self to her under-resourced students. “In the Instruction and Culture Cabinet meeting I once again / melted / when the principal asked us to be a team,” she writes in the poem “Dispatch re: White Out,” “to / buy in I buy in / I always / buy in… in the end when I arrive home I don't talk to my / family like I’ve been thinking / to and instead / I write about the day / about the exhaustion / about the students we do not serve.” Throughout Dispatches from Frontier Schools, Beddow contrasts the sterile and un-seeing language of corporate education with her own vibrant, devastating personal testimonies and disclosures, granting us an intimate, eviscerating glimpse into the negotiations, struggles, heartbreaks, and joys as lived from her side of the overflowing teacher’s desk.~ Rachel Mennies, author of The Naomi LettersWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dispatches from Frontier Schools. To get started finding Dispatches from Frontier Schools, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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