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FROM: "Nadine B. Rosendale" <[removed]@carr.org>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:02 PM
I already gave her:
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
Any other suggestions?
- Nadine
Nadine B. Rosendale
Adult Services Supervisor
Carroll County Public Library
Mount Airy Branch
410.386.4470 ext.406
"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not."
-- Epistolae Morale
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
FROM: Susan LaBelle <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:32 PM
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FROM: Charlotte Bradshaw <[removed]@pls.lib.ca.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:36 PM
Educating Esme: diary of a teacher's first year by Esme Raji Codell.
Stand and Deliver by Nicholas Edwards (from the movie) of course there are
a couple of biographies on Jaime Escalante also.
Charlotte Bradshaw
Sanchez Branch
San Mateo County Library
[removed]@pls.lib.ca.us
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Nadine B. Rosendale wrote:
> I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
> something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
> or nonfiction.
>
> I already gave her:
>
> To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
> Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
> Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> - Nadine
>
> Nadine B. Rosendale
> Adult Services Supervisor
>
> Carroll County Public Library
> Mount Airy Branch
> 410.386.4470 ext.406
>
> "It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not."
> -- Epistolae Morale
> Lucius Annaeus Seneca
>
>
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FROM: "christine downs" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:41 PM
>From: "Nadine B. Rosendale" <[removed]@carr.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: inspirational teachers
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:59:50 -0500
>
>I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
>something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
>or nonfiction.
>
>I already gave her:
>
>To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
>Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
>Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
> - Nadine
>
>Nadine B. Rosendale
>Adult Services Supervisor
>
>Carroll County Public Library
>Mount Airy Branch
>410.386.4470 ext.406
>
>"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good
>or not."
> -- Epistolae Morale
> Lucius Annaeus Seneca
>
>
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FROM: "Ann Bouricius" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:53 PM
A new teacher's first year teaching fifth grade in a Chicago Public School. She's awesome!
Ann Bouricius/Annie Kimberlin
Columbus Metropolitan Library
FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:06 PM
>I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
>something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
>or nonfiction.
>
The description reminds me of the movie "Stand and Deliver". Books about Jaime Escalante, the high school math teacher whose urban high-school math class was the real-life basis for the movie, might be a possibility.
An older nonfiction title, "The Cross and the Switchblade" by David Wilkerson, might also be a possibility. As I recall, it's about a young minister's efforts to counsel/convert several New York gang members. It was published in the 1950's or 60's.
Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) PUblic Library
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:24 PM
The library catalog computer is down just now, so I can't give the exact
title of this book, but the *sub*title includes the words "...a Teacher, Her
Students, and Their High School." It would definitely qualify.
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FROM: Kathy Lee <[removed]@jefferson.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:34 PM
-----Original Message-----
From: Nadine B. Rosendale [[removed]@carr.org]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:00 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: inspirational teachers
I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
or nonfiction.
I already gave her:
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
Any other suggestions?
- Nadine
Nadine B. Rosendale
Adult Services Supervisor
Carroll County Public Library
Mount Airy Branch
410.386.4470 ext.406
"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good
or not."
-- Epistolae Morale
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
FROM: Lisa Mettauer <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:44 PM
A good one is The Freedom Writer's Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used
Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. By The Freedom
Writers with Erin Gruwell. Foreward by Zlata Filipovic. Gruwell introduces
her inner city students to the diaries of Zlata and Anne Frank, and the
students begin writing their own diaries.....
Lisa
At 01:59 PM 01/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
>something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
>or nonfiction.
>
>I already gave her:
>
>To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
>Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
>Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
> - Nadine
>
>Nadine B. Rosendale
>Adult Services Supervisor
>
>Carroll County Public Library
>Mount Airy Branch
>410.386.4470 ext.406
>
>"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good
or not."
> -- Epistolae Morale
> Lucius Annaeus Seneca
>
>
>......................................................................
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FROM: Patty Frobisher <[removed]@cityoflafayette.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 3:00 PM
Patty Frobisher
Lafayette Public Library
775 W Baseline Rd
Lafayette, CO 80026
[removed]@cityoflafayette.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Nadine B. Rosendale [[removed]@carr.org]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:00 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: inspirational teachers
I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
or nonfiction.
I already gave her:
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
Any other suggestions?
- Nadine
Nadine B. Rosendale
Adult Services Supervisor
Carroll County Public Library
Mount Airy Branch
410.386.4470 ext.406
"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good
or not."
-- Epistolae Morale
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
FROM: Darlene Peasley <[removed]@adelphia.net>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 3:23 PM
Kathy Lee wrote:
> Try And Still We Rise: the trials and triumphs of twelve gifted inner-city
> high school students
> by Miles Corwin
> Kathy Lee
> Jefferson County Public Libraries
> Colorado
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nadine B. Rosendale [[removed]@carr.org]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:00 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: inspirational teachers
>
> I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
> something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
> or nonfiction.
>
> I already gave her:
>
> To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
> Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
> Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> - Nadine
>
> Nadine B. Rosendale
> Adult Services Supervisor
>
> Carroll County Public Library
> Mount Airy Branch
> 410.386.4470 ext.406
>
> "It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good
> or not."
> -- Epistolae Morale
> Lucius Annaeus Seneca
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcl.org>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 3:31 PM
Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library
Subject: inspirational teachers
From: "Nadine B. Rosendale" <[removed]@carr.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:59:50 -0500
I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
or nonfiction.
I already gave her:
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
Any other suggestions?
- Nadine
Nadine B. Rosendale
Adult Services Supervisor
Carroll County Public Library
Mount Airy Branch
410.386.4470 ext.406
"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good
or not."
-- Epistolae Morale
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
FROM: Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 4:09 PM
Vicki Biehl
Pearl River Public Library
--- christine jeffords <[removed]@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
>
> The library catalog computer is down just now, so I
> can't give the exact
> title of this book, but the *sub*title includes the
> words "...a Teacher, Her
> Students, and Their High School." It would
> definitely qualify.
>
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FROM: [removed]@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us (Judy Rossa)
REC'D: 1/22/01, 4:33 PM
Anything by Torey Hayden.
Judy Rossa
Bridgeport (CT) PL
FROM: "Carl Heffington" <[removed]@lmxac.org>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 4:42 PM
> Up the Down Staircaseby Bel Kaufman
>
> Kathy Lee wrote:
>
> > Try And Still We Rise: the trials and triumphs of twelve gifted
inner-city
> > high school students
> > by Miles Corwin
> > Kathy Lee
> > Jefferson County Public Libraries
> > Colorado
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nadine B. Rosendale [[removed]@carr.org]
> > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:00 PM
> > To: Fiction_L
> > Subject: inspirational teachers
> >
> > I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational
book:
> > something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
> > or nonfiction.
> >
> > I already gave her:
> >
> > To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
> > Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
> > Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> > - Nadine
> >
> > Nadine B. Rosendale
> > Adult Services Supervisor
> >
> > Carroll County Public Library
> > Mount Airy Branch
> > 410.386.4470 ext.406
> >
> > "It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are
good
> > or not."
> > -- Epistolae Morale
> > Lucius Annaeus Seneca
> >
> > ......................................................................
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FROM: "Fairlie Kinnecom" <[removed]@slco.lib.ut.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 7:14 PM
FROM: snoep <[removed]@triad.rr.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 9:00 PM
tee
> >
> > > I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational
> book:
> > > something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
> > > or nonfiction.
> > >
> > >
FROM: Vicki Nesting <[removed]@bellsouth.net>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 10:27 PM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vicki Nesting, Regional Branch Librarian
St. Charles Parish
East Regional Library
Destrehan, Louisiana
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[removed]@bellsouth.net
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FROM: "Warner" <[removed]@massed.net>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 2:36 AM
Stacey Bess wrote Nobody Don't Love Nobody: Lessons on Love from the School
with No Name, about her experience teaching in a school for homeless
children in Salt Lake.
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REC'D: 1/23/01, 8:00 AM
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian
FROM: [removed]@carmel.lib.in.us (Mary Boyden)
REC'D: 1/23/01, 8:27 AM
Mary Boyden
Readers' Advisory Librarian
Carmel Clay Public Library
>
>From: "Nadine B. Rosendale" <[removed]@carr.org>
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:59:50 -0500
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: inspirational teachers
>
>I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
>something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
>or nonfiction.
>
>I already gave her:
>
>To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
>Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
>Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
> - Nadine
>
>Nadine B. Rosendale
>Adult Services Supervisor
>
>Carroll County Public Library
>Mount Airy Branch
>410.386.4470 ext.406
>
>"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not."
> -- Epistolae Morale
> Lucius Annaeus Seneca
>
>
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FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 8:33 AM
Barry
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REC'D: 1/23/01, 8:52 AM
-----Original Message-----
From: Warner [[removed]@massed.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:31 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Inspirational teachers
Teacher--Sylvia Ashton Warner
Among Schoolchildren Tracy Kidder
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From: Fairlie Kinnecom <[removed]@slco.lib.ut.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: Inspirational teachers
Stacey Bess wrote Nobody Don't Love Nobody: Lessons on Love from the School
with No Name, about her experience teaching in a school for homeless
children in Salt Lake.
FROM: "Barbara Scanio" <[removed]@gwmail.plano.gov>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 9:59 AM
>>> [removed]@carr.org 01/22/01 12:59PM >>>
I have a request from a teacher who is looking for "an inspirational book:
something about an urban population, teaching, etc." It could be fiction
or nonfiction.
I already gave her:
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson
Teaching Stories by Judy Logan
Any other suggestions?
- Nadine
Nadine B. Rosendale
Adult Services Supervisor
Carroll County Public Library
Mount Airy Branch
410.386.4470 ext.406
"It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not."
-- Epistolae Morale
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 10:15 AM
-------------------------------------------------------
Patton, Frances Gray.
Good morning, Miss Dove; illustrated by Garrett Price.
New York : Dodd, Mead, [1954]
218 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: Susanne Clower <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 11:33 AM
Susanne Clower
Chicago Public Library
Harold Washington Library Center
[removed]@chipublib.org
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FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 1:51 PM
Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ
....my views are my own....
-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor
>>> [removed]@usmc-mccs.org 01/23/01 08:03AM >>>
Pat Conroy's "The Water Is Wide" is the story of his teaching experience on
the islands of South Carolina. "Among Schoolchildren" by Tracy Kidder is his
account of a year spent in the classroom with a teacher and her pupils.
-----Original Message-----
From: Warner [[removed]@massed.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:31 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Inspirational teachers
Teacher--Sylvia Ashton Warner
Among Schoolchildren Tracy Kidder
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From: Fairlie Kinnecom <[removed]@slco.lib.ut.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: Inspirational teachers
Stacey Bess wrote Nobody Don't Love Nobody: Lessons on Love from the School
with No Name, about her experience teaching in a school for homeless
children in Salt Lake.
FROM: "Barbara Scanio" <[removed]@gwmail.plano.gov>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 4:34 PM
>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 01/22/01 02:12PM >>>
The library catalog computer is down just now, so I can't give the exact
title of this book, but the *sub*title includes the words "...a Teacher, Her
Students, and Their High School." It would definitely qualify.
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FROM: "Debbie Saryan" <[removed]@nedcc.org>
REC'D: 1/24/01, 8:32 AM
Debbie Saryan
At 09:32 AM 1/23/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I suggest "Educating Esme" by Esme Codell; "Holler if
>You Hear Me" by Gregory Michie; and "Music of the
>Hear" (a book and a movie - I believe the book was
>written after the movie was made) by Roberta Guaspari
>with Larkin Warren. The first two are set in Chicago,
>the last in Harlem. Also, Jonathan Kozol has written
>many books on this topic, beginning with "Death at an
>Early Age," which focused on Boston.
>
>Susanne Clower
>Chicago Public Library
>Harold Washington Library Center
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FROM: "Nadine B. Rosendale" <[removed]@carr.org>
REC'D: 1/25/01, 11:12 AM
"An inspirational book about teaching in an urban community"
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder - Brimming with the exuberance and
innocence of childhood, Among School Children is the intense and affecting
chronicle of a Holyoke, Massachusetts, fifth-grade teacher's passionate
dedication to the children in her classroom. (Kidder also wrote House & Old
Friends.)
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High
School Students by Miles Corwin - A book that both lifts the heart and
afflicts the soul. It is an account of dreams fulfilled, of children from
shattered families in a murderous neighborhood who will themselves into a
program for gifted students and ultimately into college and the American
mainstream. It is also an account of dreams endangered--by a society that
thinks the SAT is the sole measure of merit, by a ghetto culture that
glorifies self-destruction and academic failure, and even by a pair of
teachers whose brilliance is undermined by their own bitter feud.
Christy by Catherine Marshall - When Christy Huddleston leaves a life of
privilege and ease to teach in the impoverished Smokey Mountains, her faith is
severely tested by her pupils, the love of two men, and the curious customs of
the mountain people in her community. Yet she grows to love these people and
the simple, fulfilling lifestyle to be found in the heart of God's country.
The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson - This is the true story of
the beginning of David Wilkerson's ministry to the gangs of New York City and
the conversion of Nicky Cruz, the notorious gang leader.
Dangerous Minds (aka My Posse Don't Do Homework) by Louanne Johnson - A feisty
female ex-Marine teaches a class of inner-city high school students about
self-respect, courage and success. What had been called "the class from hell"
went on to defy everyone's expectations, and proved that Louanne Johnson's
unorthodox technique worked.
Educating Esme by Esme Raji Codell - Esme Raji Codell has come to teach - and
she's not going to let incompetent administrators, abusive parents, gang
members, weary teachers, dim-witted principals, angry children, or her own
insecurities get in the way. Esme is fresh mouthed yet compassionate; she can
be pigheaded and generous, cynical and charming. In this diary, a record of
her frustrations, her achievements, and her struggles to maintain her
individuality in the face of bureaucracy, she reveals what it takes to be a
genuine teacher.
Escalante The Best Teacher in America by Jay Mathews - The story of a high
school teacher whose students, underprivileged and Hispanic, have set
standards in mathematics all but unequaled in American education. Jaime
Escalante is the high school math teacher whose urban high-school math class
was the real-life basis for the movie Stand & Deliver.
Flamboyant by Elizabeth Swados - When Chana Landau begins her job as a teacher
at Harvey Milk High School, she leaves the protection of her traditional
Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn for a school that embodies everything she
has been forbidden to experience. In a hostile classroom filled with sexually
"different" teens, street kids, and drug addicts, Chana's one support is
Flamboyant, a 15-year-old prostitute and an accomplished writer whose brash
exterior hides a secret. Flamboyant is an unforgettable novel of cultural
difference, friendship, and faith.
Girls in the Back of the Class by Louanne Johnson - A sequel to the
best-selling Dangerous Minds finds instructor Louanne focusing on the girls in
her class when she realizes how they have taken a back seat to the more
demanding and difficult boys.
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite - The author's experiences as a teacher
in the slums of London.
Good Morning, Miss Dove by Frances Gray Patton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton - Full of enthusiasm, young English
schoolmaster Mr. Chipping came to teach at Brookfield in 1870. It was a time
when dignity and a generosity of spirit still existed, and the dedicated new
schoolmaster expressed these beliefs to his rowdy students. Nicknamed Mr.
Chips, this gentle and caring man helped shape the lives of generation after
generation of boys. He became a legend at Brookfield, as enduring as the
institution itself. And sad but grateful faces told the story when the time
came for the students at Brookfield to bid their final goodbye to Mr. Chips.
Hardball, A Season in the Projects, by Daniel Coyle - A journalist describes
the struggle of a group of youngsters from a Chicago housing project and their
white-collar coaches to triumph in Little League baseball, chronicling their
journey from the first practice to the championship game.
Holler if You Hear Me: the Education of a Teacher and His Students by Gregory
Michie - Greg Michie has written one of the season's most fascinating, albeit
under-publicized books. Michie moved to Chicago and became a teacher in an
inner city school, where he basically found another world--not a foreign
world, as many comfortable suburbanites may think of it, but one different in
its innate toughness. There he met and was "educated" by his students as much
as he helped educate them. Michie's book is full of passionate writing and is
of immediate interest to anyone concerned about children and/or education.
Marva Collins' Way by Marva Collins - Marva Collins offers a beacon of hope in
the midst of America's educational crises. Collins recounts her successful
teaching strategies and offers inspirational advice on how to motivate
children to fulfill their potential. This updated edition contains a new
epilogue for parents and teachers.
Music of the Heart (a book and a movie - I believe the book was written after
the movie was made) by Roberta Guaspari with Larkin Warren.
Nobody Don't Love Nobody: Lessons on Love from the School with No Name by
Stacey Bess - This is a book about a middle-class teacher who takes a job
teaching homeless kids in Salt Lake City. She talks about the kids
individually, the problems they had to face being homeless and the joys when
she made a breakthrough. It was a lesson on hope and defiance of the odds.
One Child by Torey Hayden - A dedicated teacher shares her success story with
Sheila, an autistic child abandoned by her mother and abused by an alcoholic
father, who was declared a hopeless case in spite of her genius intellect.
(most anything by Torey Hayden Murphy's Boy, Somebody Else's Kids, etc.)
Ordinary Resurrections, by Jonathan Kozol, non-fiction, very inspiring with a
lot of personal stories, very much like fiction - focuses on St. Anne's School
in the South Bronx. Jonathan Kozol has written many books on this topic,
beginning with "Death at an Early Age," which focused on Boston.
Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde - It all started with the social studies
teacher's extra-credit assignment: come up with a plan to change the world for
the better, and do it. Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney began by doing
something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them
to "pay it forward" by doing a favor for three more people, who in turn would
help three others, and so on, each act a link in a chain of human kindness.
And no one -- not his teacher, his mom, or anyone in his small California town
-- could ever have dreamed of how far Trevor's plan would go. (The hero is the
boy, but the teacher did inspire him.)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks - The story of an eccentric
Edinburgh teacher who inspires cultlike reverence in her young students, the
novel was Spark's best-known work. The novel explores themes of innocence,
betrayal, and cold rationality opposed to unchecked emotionalism. The story of
Miss Brodie's ultimate downfall is told from the unsympathetic perspective of
one of her students.
Push by Sapphire - This is about a last chance kind of program for urban high
schoolers. The narrator is a teenage girl who has survived pregnancy, poverty,
and abuse. She can barely read, but is challenged by a teacher who asks all
the students to keep a journal. The changes we see in this character over the
course of the book are certainly inspiring.
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High
School by Samuel G. Freedman - Small Victories is the story of one incredibly
dedicated teacher and the struggles she and her students face both inside the
classroom and out; a book with important lessons for anyone concerned about
the quality and state of education in America today.
Teacher by Sylvia Ashton Warner - Ashton-Warner was a careful observer of the
young Maori children she taught. She knew that what she had been trained to do
in a college teacher-training program wasn't working, so she really looked to
see what the children cared about, and invented ways to teach them based upon
their deep interests and respecting their culture, different from her own.
She, a left-handed artist, was different from the mainstream, and wanted to be
appreciated...and she carried this and other knowledge from her personal life
into her teaching. Ashton-Warner wasn't a woman of perfection, but she made a
contribution that lasts...This book has changed the lives of many, many
teachers
'Tis by Frank McCourt - The author of Angela's Ashes tells his story as an
impoverished immigrant who becomes an inspirational teacher in the New York
City High Schools.
To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield - This best-selling novel that
inspired a legendary "Masterpiece Theater" presentation invokes a vivid
panorama of English life and history.
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman - Up the Down Staircase is the funny and
touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose dash with school
bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents--anyone
concerned about public education. Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for
themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by
students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and
wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight
against all that stands in the way of good teaching.
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy - First-person account of the year spent by
the author teaching black children on an impoverished island off the South
Carolina coast.
The Freedom Writer's Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change
Themselves and the World Around Them. By The Freedom Writers with Erin
Gruwell. Foreword by Zlata Filipovic. Gruwell introduces her inner city
students to the diaries of Zlata and Anne Frank, and the students begin
writing their own diaries.
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