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'Found' Poetry from the IOE R&D Network Conference - 28 June 2016

Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words and phrases ‘found’ in other sources, and reframing them as poetry; so a ‘found’ poem must use only the original words – what someone else has said or written. A ‘found’ poem can take single words or phrases out of a whole conversation, and mix up or repeat any of the original words to create rhythms and rhymes; so it ends up having its own shape.

As a form of qualitative data collection, it works by capturing the personal tones of voice and individual turns of expression, as well as key terms in the ‘dominant discourse’; by taking single words/phrases out of context and juxtaposing them with other words/phrases, the poem will typically reveal something interesting and meaningful about the collective atmosphere. And, because of the particular choices of words and phrases made, the poem will also be imbued with the writer’s own individuality and concerns. Found poems can be used alongside other forms of data collection to make a multiple record of a complex event or situation.


Throwing It Open
 
It’s an uncertain time, it’s why I’m here.
It’s very complicated. I’m at the very beginning
Of thinking about this, hoping to observe
Something magical. It’s an uncertain time,
I was really struggling, I was extremely nervous
Actually listening. Actually listening it’s a slowing
Down, I’m going to go quite fast, we need to know
What to do, we just move on and move on.
It’s very expensive. I’ve got a lot to say,
It’s all about listening to how that person thinks –
I asked him what actually moved him.
Of course as human beings, who you are
In the world, in the 22nd century, we are
Struggling: how can you be patient when you’re
Worried about not doing it properly,
Being told to do things, simple quick answers?
I’m going to go quite fast. It’s an uncertain time,
A national obsession, that little hamster wheel –
They don’t let the students breathe really,
Sharpen their pencils. You have to be willing
To stop. It opened my eyes, I found myself
Holding back. It was like a two minutes’ silence,
The gift of listening, the time and the trust,
A beautiful thing: lonely souls falling in love,
Jazz music, laughter, the beginning of wisdom.
It’s why I came.
 

Lesley Saunders lesley@lesleysaunders.org.uk


The need to take control
Research and development
Social intelligence
Human feeling does not pollute understanding
Understanding
It’s all about coming to an understanding
Improving our practice as professionals
Helping everyone to manage the load.
Collaborating to create a better future
That future
The 22nd Century
That of course is the challenge.
Many of the jobs children will be doing haven’t even been created yet.
Created, Creating
Creating knowledge
Take risks and challenges
Think differently
The beginning of wisdom.
Turn this into the knowledge we can use.
Created knowledge
Tools for thinking
Becoming wise.

Savannah Morgan
Student, Phoenix High School



A developing self-assessment
to cover all bases.
Collaborative capacity in mind,
to operate in a multicultural world.
We have a question
more deepening than sustaining
sustaining, developing, embedding, observing
self-regulated learners
A habit of mind
that you can develop over time.
Be the expert within and between,
great decisions that are neatly packaged.
To design our future
and blend and mix
learning from failure
at a wide development angle
Nurture the professionalism
as it requires inquiry and innovation.
Be the expert
and preach to the converted.
Don’t just become obsessed,
enrich the community rigorously
stepping back into the comfort zone
is a challenge of leadership drawing on hope.

Chevonne Brown
Student Phoenix High School


What would they look like
on a single side of A4
When arriving - a conversation that needs to be with words?
These external effects that create too many degrees of awareness?
NOW tweak it
Not rushing to conclusions
Stop, be humble, inquire humbly and equally
challenge someone, take the next steps
Do you really have the passion?
Or do you sort of go?
Is there something out there that is a plan with action?
What works for you?
What works with you?
Not even words make things add up.
 
What would they look like
On a single side of A4
When arriving - a conversation that needs to be with words?
 
Aaliyah Rahman
Student from Phoenix High School


Fast Changing Times
What is our starting point?
We have to start with ourselves
I am thinking…
I have no idea what that means.
 
But we have to remember,
as we are moving forward
there are questions you don’t know the answer to.
Don’t just become obsessed.
 
I am thinking…
everything you do
-those individual differences
could mean change.
 
Not stretching so much,
It’s about being passionate.
Design the future.
Lets give ourselves a little bit of a moment.
We are here,
We are leaders.

Javiera Quirot
Student Phoenix High School

 


Is there anything missing?
We’re frustrated, pushing, fast-changing times
tweak it, change it, don’t put that in
SLOW DOWN
is there anything missing?
stop, be practical, powerful, obsessed but humble,
aware of human feeling and well being.
 
Is there anything missing?
No, no it’s high quality,
a good way, a better way, one stage ahead.
 
One statement, two statements, three sets of words.
A loaded point.

Seynab Abdirrahman
Student, Phoenix High School



Who’s driving?
 
These are fast changing times
Who’s driving?
We are in a global world
Who’s driving?
Computation, new media, symbols, signs…
These are fast changing times
Who’s driving?
 
Think differently!
What does that mean?
Improve our practice through innovation
Orientation – take the development angle
Improve our practice
Becoming wise
Evidence informed – opening doors
Triangle!
 
The importance of emotion, at the centre of learning, an organic ecosystem
Ask young people how much challenge there is in their learning
How does that affect us?
Anxious?
Frustration?
I play the piano badly!
Practice…practice…practice
Inquiry is about learning
I don’t mean to preach, but this could mean change
Bringing those connections
Not rushing…
Powerful learning.
Our learning doesn’t just take place in our classrooms, in schools
Connect with outsiders beyond the school
Norway
Singapore
Ask questions you don’t know the answer of
Toby!
Toby talks about challenge
Thinking together is important
What are the implications for everything else?
Throw it out
Slow it down
I’m thinking my way through this
Change the mindset, things can fly
I don’t mean this negatively…
These are fast changing times
Who’s driving?
James Rickwood
Teacher, Phoenix High School

 

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