Jose Hernandez Diaz ’15 (Los Angeles, MFA) introduces readers to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt in his debut chapbook The Fire Eater: Poems (2020). Surreal, playful, and always poignant, the prose poems explore the ordinary and the not-so-ordinary occurrences of life.
Kate Sipe ’02
What if classrooms were envisioned as a small democracy? What if our students practiced democracy in their classroom year after year? Further, what if they knew they deserved it? Kate Sipe, ’02, Antioch University Seattle MA in Education with Graduate Teacher Preparation and an adjunct faculty who teaches Classroom Management courses, published a timely post in Medium in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election about the importance of democratic schools and teaching civics to our children: “Psst… Hey teachers… Let’s teach civics in our classrooms every single day.” Start today. Start small. Just start. Let your classroom be a microcosm