This is the first installment of a series about elementary and secondary school teachers who write. Not only the retired teachers who now devote their lives to writing as there are many, but the teachers who actively still teach AND maintain a career as a writer; those who balance parent-teacher interviews, report cards, staff meetings, and marking with a writing schedule, deadlines, edits, grant applications, and book signings. Perhaps, this series will be for me more of a work-in-progress. Or perhaps, it will help other teachers who precariously balance two careers. I try to pick up whatever I can from those teachers who write, those author/teachers whose work I consult and run to including SK Ali, Caroline Pignat, and Uzma Jalaluddin and other forms disciplines such as filmmaking such as Laurie Townshend and spoken word such as Malik I.M. aka Sun Toucha. I will also include teachers who may have left the classroom, not entirely, but embarked on various unique and creative careers including spoken word artist/author Motion and Humble the Poet.
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