Jami Williams

Check out Your Words in My Mouth: Poetry from/for Strangers by Jami Hunt-Williams on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/913…

#LoserTeachers deserve combat pay... we can't even define the enemy anymore. We love your students, how about a modicum of respect??? I love being a teacher and embraced the life that goes with it, but WILL NOT EMBRACE this label.

Incognito students make for great Candids.

OFFICIALLY obsessed with Liza's Beaded Charm wrist enhancers at #martharose - my new go-to gift for everyone!!! Stacks so swell with all my other faves! #NoNakedWrists

I wrote a book, a novel. My student read it and asked me if I could write her a piece of poetry for her to perform her senior year. THAT is how I define being a successful teacher AND author. #BitTime – at St Louis, MO

The friendships and relationships that have evolved from being a teacher have been some of the greatest blessings in my life. I couldn't say that when I worked for a Fortune 500 company... #Priceless – at Mexico, MO

My students are going to tackle the school safety issue by researching, finding funding routes and coming up with policies to make schools safer. The only agenda I promote is critical thinking. Can't wait to hear their ideas... – at Missouri, USA

If their learning is not more important than your teaching, you are doing it WRONG. – at Mexico, MO

If you want to prevent violence in schools, how about federal funding for licensed psychologists at every facility? How about federal funding that fully funds security? If you are going to use us as a political tool, pay us for our use. #SchoolSecurityNow – at Mexico, MO

When it's a snow day and you miss your kids... #TeacherEmotionsGotMe

Today's metaphor for life: poet style No one else's scraps to hold me down, Emptiness means freedom, But never forget there always arms reaching for what gives appearance of freedom. Counterpoint: Never is garbage better than the risk of emptiness.

Should journalists get involved? After watching REPORTER about Darfur, my students say yes!

If you can't use your cell phone in a classroom, you definitely shouldn't be caught using it on national television during the State of the Union address. #Etiquette #TeacherLife – at Mexico, MO

Best gift ever... – at Mexico, MO

Reverse investigative reporting. They are given a crime and must create the clues and the backstory to hand off to another group in the class to solve it. #mhsconnections

When this is your view out the backdoor you get why the kids are a bit squirrelly... #Yikes

Teacher envy: student helps herself focus in class by making the rubber band ball. #FiguringItOutForYourself #StudentWin

If you like me as a teacher, then you'll have mixed feelings about me as a writer... but what the heck! Follow my author account @jamiwrites for Twitter poems and random scratches of questionable talent! – at Mexico, MO

When you can't deal with it, document it... thankful my path brought me to teaching and through that I fell in love with storytelling. #CameraPhoneDoumentary – at Missouri, USA

When your students stay after class to continue the discussion, that's the best evaluation in the world. #TeacherWin – at Mexico, MO