Jeff Schwartz is recent­ly retired from teach­ing at a pre‑K through 12 girls school in CT where he was espe­cial­ly inter­est­ed in young wom­en’s voic­es and stu­dent-cen­tered learn­ing. He’s been writ­ing poems and arti­cles on teach­ing for the last 40 years or so – first in Ohio where he grew up, then in Boston and Pitts­burgh where he stud­ied writ­ing, rhetoric, and lit, and cur­rent­ly in Fair­field, CT.