Ann Teplick has been teaching at Seattle Children’s Hospital since 2011.
Every Wednesday morning, Ann Teplick walks down halls both colorful and labyrinthine, a suitcase on wheels trailing behind her. She arrives at her first destination—a classroom on the seventh floor of Seattle Children’s Hospital—and readies her papers, prompts, poetry, and pencils. All of Teplick’s students also happen to be patients at Seattle Children’s, where she has taught since 2011.
Teplick preserves students’ work in an annual anthology called Words of Courage.
Teplick’s teaching happens in partnership with a program called Writers in the Schools (WITS). Operated by Seattle Arts & Lectures, WITS
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