The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why our society needs them now more than ever.
Former middle-school teacher and teachers' advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make-a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
Based on the poem that inspired a movement, What Teachers Make is Mali's sharp, funny, reflective, critical call to arms about the joys of teaching and why teachers are so vital to America today. It's a book that will be treasured and shared by every teacher in America-and everyone who's ever loved or learned from one.

What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

Biographies & Memoirs

Mali, Taylor

Memoirs

G.P.Putnam's Sons

In praise of the greatest job in the world... The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever. Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate and unforgettable response to a rich man at a dinner party who sneeringly asked him what teachers make. Mali’s sharp, funny, perceptive look at life in the classroom pays tribute to the joys of teaching…and explains why teachers are so vital to our society. What Teachers Make is a book that will be treasured and shared by every teacher in America—and everybody who’s ever loved or learned from one.

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The Teachers I Loved Best

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Educator and acclaimed poet Taylor Mali honors the magic of teachers and mentors in this joyful, energetic, uplifting gift book. Easy teachers who gave easy tests are not the teachers I loved the best.... Perfect for teacher appreciation gifts and graduation, here is an inspirational, rhyming picture book ode to the extra-special teachers we remember all those years later. Children will love seeing themselves and their favorite teachers in scenes bursting with positivity, highlighting not just academics but sports, drama, art, music, and community. And teachers will appreciate seeing their honored profession depicted with love and gratitude. With gorgeous and whimsical illustrations by Erica Root, here is a book that celebrates the commitment and diversity of the special people who mentor, lead, and inspire our children.

Parenthood and partnership dwell in Taylor Mali's poems in addition to a "tender gloom" that comes from having lost a father years before finally becoming one, a late father. Mali's signature playful eloquence and poignant observations are still at work here, but in these poems, Mali tells us, "all the smallest parts of me . . . can let down their tiny burdens all at once" ("My Sister Asks if She Can See More Grey"), and a wiser, more magnanimous voice emerges, a father's voice, gently offering up a new invocation: O, lightning, if you're listening, disregard my former invocations. And rain, please bless my simple little poems; they're plenty hard to write, and the world needs them no less. Let my family if not my other works outlive me. And to those who have survived the storm, forgive me. (from "Sonnet on My Former Invocations")

Late Father and Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Quercus Review Press

Thirteen poems about teaching & love. Some explicit language

Wisdom of the Root Cellar New Poems By

Taylor Mali

You don't need a classroom to be a teacher, and you don't need to be a teacher to help someone learn a lesson. Taylor Mali's poetry explores this truth in entertaining and plainspoken ways because "the last thing this world needs is another poem" ("The Call to What We Know"). Whether discussing the language of love or the love of language, the poems contained in The Last Time As We Are prove that "He who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

The Last Time As We Are

Write Bloody Publishing

The Last Time As We Are HC

Former middle-school teacher and teachers' advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make—a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.Based on the poem that inspired a movement, What Teachers Make is Mali's sharp, funny, reflective, critical call to arms about the joys of teaching and why teachers are so vital to America today. It's a book that will be treasured and shared by every teacher in America—and everyone who's ever loved or learned from one.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Tantor Audio

Taylor Mali speaks of the world of the teacher with poer and grace. His work is filled with the energy, joy, pathos, and humor of everyday life in the classroom. Strong and compassionate, his voice is our voice. He's been there. (Michele Foreman, 2001 U.S. Teacher of the Year)

What Learning Leaves

Words Worth Ink

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What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

The Teachers I Loved Best

The Teachers I Loved Best

Late Father and Other Poems

Wisdom of the Root Cellar New Poems By

The Last Time As We Are

The Last Time As We Are HC

What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

What Learning Leaves