Jeff Wyman

Elementary and Secondary education today are suffering, especially since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. Student performance is declining, bad behavior is increasing, and teachers face greater challenges than ever before. Unstuck in the Middle: A Progressive Guide to Teaching Middle School offers constructive tips on overcoming this situation through engaging practices in the classroom, based on the author’s highly successful career as a middle school teacher, spanning more than thirty years.

Jeff Wyman is a teacher, poet, musician, and songwriter. After working as a professional musician for twenty-three years in the San Francisco Bay Area, he began a thirty-year career as a middle school teacher, and upon retirement, as a tutor. Jeff’s first book of sonnets received rave reviews, and he continues to regularly write and share his poems with friends and on social media. He lives and teaches in Eugene, Oregon.

Imagine the world you want to live in
Long after the pandemic has ended
Let’s fight for a new one and not give in
Until the broken parts have been mended

100 Sonnets For Our Time offers a lyrical glimpse of the most unusual time many of us have lived through. Jeff Wyman examines the pandemic, political climate, loves found and lost, nostalgia, and more in a series of sonnets that are more conversational than most, but maintain all the proper elements of the structure. These topical and hopeful verses will help anyone through rough times.