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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
Author: Rafe Esquith
Narrator: James Yaegashi
Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: 03/11/2008
Category: Family & Relationships - Parenting
Synopsis
Best-selling author Rafe Esquith, the only teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts, has garnered the American Teacher Award and numerous other honors. Still teaching fifth graders in a small, leaky classroom in downtown Los Angeles, Esquith fosters a wholesome climate where character, humility, and diligence matter and support is unconditional. For his mostly poor and Hispanic students, Esquith models two maxims: Be nice and work hard, and There are no shortcuts. And his students thrive!