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Teaching and artmaking are endeavours of wonder and discovery. One never knows which seed sprinkled in a class will come to bloom many years later. I tell my student teachers over and over again that, even with the best curriculum or greatest instruction, in reality you walk into the classroom and you are there on your feet, in your full body, and nothing you prepared may be what makes the ultimate teaching moment. The moments we wait for as artists, poets, and teachers are the ones that often come to us, unannounced, yet the soil has been prepared. The soil is our bodies, hearts, and minds.
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Snowber, C. (2017). Living, Loving, and Dancing the Questions. In: Wiebe, S., Lyle, E., Wright, P.R., Dark, K., McLarnon, M., Day, L. (eds) Ways of Being in Teaching. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-092-9_1
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