ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 is a complete novel in verse. This chapter emerges as a series of poems that are at the same time explosive, gentle, intuitive, courageous, informative, and provocative. This chapter powerfully speaks to every classroom teacher, teacher educator, and educational researcher. Crafted from the experiences of the Blue Diamonds, Smith’s notes as a teacher and researcher, and the language of theory and pedagogy, the poems are truths that every educator should hear and feel. This is a chapter that should be read again and again as, each time, the readers absorb more and more from its power, beauty, and message.
