Articles tagged: Jeff Kass
opinion: Young people deserve access to resources a new library could make available
Posted: Oct 31, 2012The Ann Arbor District Library on the corner of William and Fifth streets.Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and Macarthur Genius Grantee, says that when he was growing up, an immigrant kid from the ... Read more »
Teacher and poet Jeff Kass' new book reaches out to 'Knuckleheads'
Posted: Mar 02, 2011“I wish more boys read more books.” Ever issued that lament? Help is on the way. I'm running out of ways to describe Jeff Kass' career in a succinct fashion, so I'll use list format ... Read more »
'Wrestle the Great Fear' offers a dynamic look at teaching tonight at EMU
Posted: Sep 15, 2010My man Jeff Kass is performing his one-man show, Wrestle the Great Fear, Wednesday evening at the Eastern Michigan University Student Center. If you are now or have ever been a teacher or a student, ... Read more »
From the Front of the Room: Lunch hour: A time for Pioneer students to unwind or another hectic part of the day?
Posted: Nov 03, 2009A few years ago, my family took a trip to California during spring break to visit relatives. While staying with my brother-in-law’s family in Davis, I realized just how long a high-school student’s school day ... Read more »
From the Front of the Room: A is for algebra; B is for baseball; C - is for you're off the team
Posted: Oct 06, 2009A week ago, feeling amped and restless after watching the end of the Michigan-Indiana game, I decide to go for a walk. We live close enough to the stadium to make a few bucks parking ... Read more »
File Under: Things I wish I could have done when I was in high school
Posted: Oct 05, 2009You know that super-hip series, the Best American Non-Required Reading? Did you know that the content in the 2009 issue was chosen, in part, by teens in our community? One of the things I hear ... Read more »
Jeff Kass: At the end of class, students should be thoroughly used up - and so should the teacher
Posted: Sep 15, 2009At the top of the policies and procedures hand-out for my Creative Writing class, which I spend much of the first week going over with my students, is a quotation from the playwright George Bernard ... Read more »
Slowly, they become real
Posted: Sep 10, 2009At first, I don’t know them. They’re a blur. With Skyline now hosting sophomores as well as freshmen, I’m not sure how many students currently inhabit Pioneer, but it feels like around 2,000. I teach ... Read more »
Stale old generation gaps meet brave new voices
Posted: Jul 29, 2009Recently I heard another person on NPR mention how Generation Y — loosely defined as anyone age 9 to 30, but perhaps more accurately translated as “kids these days” — is characterized by a sense ... Read more »
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