Nurturing creative minds

A pop song parody which some of my students created with me, about the joys of being on Facebook.

IN early 2012, a teacher and spoken-word artist friend of mine, Elaine, approached me to be part of a drama and poetry teaching project. I felt anxious, having zero experience in teaching. However, I had good working experiences with kids before, and I am a dramatic person by nature, and these instilled Elaine with enough good faith to have me on board.

Holding my breath, I turned in a resignation letter to the company that I had been employed with for the past nine years, and jumped headfirst into the nationwide school tour of a popular educational language TV show called Oh My English.