Shirley Jones Luke is a ninth grade English teacher in Boston and a member of Educators for Excellence’s National Teacher Leader Council. Shirley is a literacy and social justice advocate, as well as a poet and a writer.
Posts By Shirley Jones Luke
Teachers and Students Need Culturally Relevant Education
Each September, my ninth-graders insist they do not like poetry. And each June, they leave my class as fledgling poets. They come to not only enjoy reading poetry but also creating it because they...
