Published today's #poembox #poetry "Starved Trees" https://jgregorymcverry.com/mypoetry#today dedicated to students of color who must come to terms with fact that being black or brown can and does kill you #writingcommunity #clmooc #nctevillage
Starved trees grow strongest Abundance keeps roots from growing deep disconnected in soul and soil untethered to her healing ways While trees versed in denial withstand tall trials stability brought by Pain healing tears of wood and bark carried on winds of inequity #poemsofpresence
"There's a war going down between my brothers tonight I don't want no war going down tonight Civilization ha I call it as I see it I call it bullshit you know I still cannot believe it"
Anyone have good @makeblock tutorials? Lesson numbers and videos don't match up on YouTube. Son is getting stuck on lesson 6-3. No matter what he does the sensor picks up an obstacle, lights always stay green. Stuck in if/then loop
burning streets, flames reflect facade of justice every riot begins with The Law lynching a black man may not see a rope but same one pulls communities towards anger, wick on one side noose on other #poemsofpresence
Published #poembox #poetry "Peppered Moth." builds off of yesterday's poem "Atone" and talks about about the survival skills of POC in our schools https://jgregorymcverry.com/mypoetry#audiopoems #writingcommunity #literacies #nctevillage
Black and outdoorsy: https://edifiedlistener.blog/2020/05/28/black-and-outdoors-at-a-time-like-this/ from @edifiedlistener as part of #31DaysIBPOC blogging challenge #poemsofpresence
I have never written an autoethnography (beyond 15 years of blogging). Getting started now: http://longthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/doku.php?id=autoethnography anyone have examples of autoethnogaphies in #literacies #edpsych or #learningsciences studies #digped
#poemsofpresence Peppered moth OG survivor of nights outstretched from London to Atlanta peppered speckles dance on air As a child survival required pretending you were not there Stiff as tree, unseen London late 1700s Soot of Revolution stained trees Black one by one birds picked off white moths leaving streets devoid of form typica Today Yyur Blackness Bro
Hey @readycted if any of your member orgs want a great project to support check out what we are going with CfAL https://jgregorymcverry.com/tech4teens we could scale this across Connecticut with a bit of support.
Hey #edu407 next intro prompt: Listen to LL Cool J clip https://jgregorymcverry.com/videos/LLCoolJClip.m4a Be metaphorical think about last prompt and lit or get literal find lyrics, compare to how you think children may feel about #literacies in school.
#edu407 today's #DesignStudio vieo https://media.southernct.edu/media/Open+Design+Studio+Time/1_87ghhefp assignment workflow Use Blackboard journals Use Blackboard wiki Navigate Microsoft Teams Set up a Google Sites website How to set up a Google Blogger site
Published today's #poembox #poetry. Today's work "Atone" https://jgregorymcverry.com/mypoetry#audiopoems #writingcommunity #clmooc #nctevillage #saytheirnames George Floyd Trayvon Martin Breonna Taylor Ahmaud Arbery Tamir Rice Oscar Grant Eric Garner Philando Castile Samuel Dubose Sandra Bland Walter Scott Terrence Crutcher Tony McDade
Cline times while truth diverges in chasms of invented geographic boundaries. Selections of gospel flow in Adaptations of hunger. need to be right not get it right Creating boundaries in ranges of possibility #smallpoems