{"product_id":"some-kids-i-taught-and-what-they-taught-me-9781800751675","title":"Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith a new afterword.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' - Philip Pullman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent place to do it. She invites you to meet some of the kids she has taught in her thirty-year career.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoin her as she explains everything about sex to a classroom of thirteen-year-olds. As she works in the school 'Inclusion Unit', trying to improve the fortunes of kids excluded from regular lessons because of their terrifying power to end learning in an instant. Or as she nurtures her multicultural poetry group, full of migrants and refugees, watches them find their voice and produce work of heartbreaking brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile Clanchy doesn't deny stinging humiliations or hide painful accidents, she celebrates this most creative, passionate and practically useful of jobs. Teaching today is all too often demeaned, diminished and drastically under-resourced. \u003cem\u003eSome Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me\u003c\/em\u003e will show you why it shouldn't be.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClanchy, Kate:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eKate Clanchy is a writer, teacher and journalist. Her poetry collection \u003cem\u003eSlattern\u003c\/em\u003e won a Forward Prize. Her short story 'The Not-Dead and the Saved' won both the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award and the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. Her novel \u003cem\u003eMeeting the English\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award. Her BBC 3 radio programme about her work with students was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes prize. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature, and an anthology of her students' work, \u003cem\u003eEngland: Poems from a School\u003c\/em\u003e, was published to great acclaim. In 2019 she published \u003cem\u003eSome Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me\u003c\/em\u003e, a book about her experience of teaching in state schools for several decades, which won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing; and in 2020 published \u003cem\u003eHow to Grow Your Own Poem\u003c\/em\u003e, which Hollie McNish described as 'the best book I've read about how to practise writing poetry'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swift Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51812598317330,"sku":"9781800751675","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_122e9c6c-52c3-484f-8b11-c97f742d6082.jpg?v=1766491661","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/some-kids-i-taught-and-what-they-taught-me-9781800751675","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}