Collaborative Haiku

Welcome to the Collaborative's Haiku Page

All the poems posted here are the result of a Collaborative Haiku Contest held in December 2010. In addition to the usual syllabic requirements involved in this ancient Japanese style, each poem had to speak to the heart of the agency's work in reaching, teaching and inspiring learners of all ages. 

Congratulations to our contest winner, Bernice Chandler-Petrovick, one of our SEIS special education teachers. Bernice won a t-shirt with her haiku printed on the front.

Bernice's winning submission:

Clearly, learning helps
Elevate mind and spirit
So students flourish

 Read on and enjoy more of our Collaborative haiku contest entries! (Just how many syllables are there in "collaborative," anyway?)

Collaborative
Spreads our educational
Success through the state

Drink from the fountain,
and grow wise with help from the
Collaborative

Sad little flower
Wilted and alone, reborn
By CES grows

Flowers turn to light
Children turn to CES
Together they grow
- Bernice Chandler- Petrovick

CES, the best
darn educators for the
most students statewide
 - Mary Ingram

Here for all to see,
our new-found transparency --
SO collaborative!

We're now CES
Call us "The Collaborative,"
but NEVER "ces."

When we suffer from
collaboration fatigue,
humility helps.
- Corky Klimzak

together we learn
collaborative effort
inspire, teach, succeed
- Catherine Holmes

Everyone can learn
Try the Collaborative
We will find the way
- Marie McCourt

COLLABORATIVE
5 beats linguistically stand
a mountain of thought
- Kat McClelland

What is our best name?
"The Collaborative" works
We'll remember it.
- Len Lubinsky

vital labor live
lead create collaborate
be love read evolve
- a haiku from the letters of "Collaborative" by Erika Hollister