Jennifer Wolfe's Blog
February 28, 2023
“Afterlight”: Found Poetry
In the process of slowing down, it is infinitely simpler and easier to notice the beauty around me. The grey rainy skies blend into the rooftops and bare-branched honey locust trees in my backyard, afterlight echoing a hollowing, a sense of endings and beginnings shifting in and out of each other. I found these words […]
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October 18, 2022
To Be A Writer Today Is To Have Lived
Instead of writing being what got me through, helped me understand, and kept me grounded in ritual and routine, it changed into worry, tension, rumination, and simply hard work.
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November 21, 2021
Teacher Tired: When November Feels Like April
Teacher tired is a real thing. I’m not going to argue the details here – I’ve shared thoughts about why teachers need the summer off, and how hard it is to take a sub day... Read more Teacher Tired: When November Feels Like April
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October 30, 2021
The Teachers are NOT All Right
It’s been eleven months since I ‘closed’ the door to my classroom and left teaching in my public school district. Thirty years of working with middle school kids, sharing my love of reading, writing, and... Read more The Teachers are NOT All Right
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May 16, 2021
What Have You Made This Year?
Three months into my new job, I’ve made some discoveries about teacher and students and education – and myself. Now that I’m no longer in the classroom every day, I’ve had some space to think... Read more What Have You Made This Year?
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March 1, 2021
Why I Left The Classroom During a Pandemic
On January 25, 2021, I closed my classroom door for the last time. After 30 years, during a pandemic, I decided to stop teaching junior high. It wasn’t because I’m retiring, and it wasn’t because... Read more Why I Left The Classroom During a Pandemic
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January 30, 2021
Anti-Racist Teaching and Justice
“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”-Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s tough to think about the damage done during... Read more Anti-Racist Teaching and Justice
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January 15, 2021
Illuminate: Finding My Way Gently Into 2021
These mornings are neither dark nor light, clear nor completely obscured, just intriguing enough to keep searching, illuminating into 2021.
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January 1, 2021
Books in 2020 Were A Saving Grace
And according to my website statistics, lots of people who read jenniferwolfe.net liked books in 2020, and also like lists of books and book recommendations!
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December 31, 2020
Books in 2020 Were A Saving Grace
And according to my website statistics, lots of people who read jenniferwolfe.net liked books in 2020, and also like lists of books and book recommendations!
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