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...that can help kids overcome barriers to learning must be measured in more than dollars. "Boy, if you can increase the confidence of students in their own ability, you can affect a change in their lives," says Kleyn. Back in New Jersey, Nicole Davis might want to write a poem about that...
...poor home, and his limited language skills made for low grades. But last fall, six student tutors from the U.C. Irvine English program came to his fourth-grade classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only subtle changes at first. But two months later, when the kids wrote their final poems of the term, Raynaldo's reading had jumped from first- to third-grade level. And his poem had the glow of a prayer: "...the beauty of the hand of God/never let go of my mother and father/of the silver night/of the city so quiet and the birds singing like diamonds...
...entitled to at least a couple nights of sulking on your bunk bed when the rest of the proctor group forgets to invite you to watch "Dawson's Creek" with them or your teaching fellow puts you down in section--again. Enjoy the melodrama of these moments. Write a poem or two. If they're good, join the Advocate. If not, go back out into the wild unknown and chart your path...
...think that fits in with our spirit as much as a poem does," he says of the news analysis, "so there's lots of different ways we can come at this...
...said, that the chapter first voted to conduct the exercises in the manner it did today--starting with a prayer and following with a poem and then an oration...