Ms. Irish is an educator with more than thirty years of experience working with parents, educators, teens, and children in a variety of capacities. She has facilitated poetry slams and has given presentations in communication skills, classroom management, and school and parent involvement. Most of the poems in this book have been used in classrooms, after-school programs, poetry jams, and career days at elementary and junior high schools. Some poems have been published in school newspapers, and one in a (NEA) National Educators Association booklet -a poem called """"Closing the Achievement Gap."""" | The Gift Of Words by Janice Irish, Paperback | Indigo Chapters