Every educator should have this video cued and ready to play for every CEO who wants to reinvent the classroom even though they’ve never taught in one and every politician who calls the underpaid and overworked teachers of America lazy.

More on Taylor Mali, the educator and poet we’re celebrating, can be found here.

(video below via @Ryan)

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