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Search - Educating Esmé : Diary of a Teacher's First Year
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Educating Esme Diary of a Teacher's First Year Author: Esmé 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. Esmé is fresh mouthed yet compassionate; she can be both pigheaded and generous, cynical and charming. In this diary, a... more »
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Eve B. (Eve-thebooknut) reviewed Educating Esmé : Diary of a Teacher's First Year on + 81 more book reviews
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very funny, witty and also very candid. It's a 1st year teachers diary. She teaches in a inncer city school of Chicago. It's not for "born-again idealists." She's blunt and at times down right crude in her approach to reaching those students that most need her. She loves her students and fights every day for them to understand her love for them and her
desire for them to break the pattern that has been set before them.
desire for them to break the pattern that has been set before them.
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Megan D. (glowbuggreen) reviewed Educating Esmé : Diary of a Teacher's First Year on + 13 more book reviews
Quick read...I think I finished it in 2 hours. But I loved it! Very inspirational.
Mary Elaine L. (Laney) reviewed Educating Esmé : Diary of a Teacher's First Year on + 899 more book reviews
An education book about an even more exceptional teacher.
Entertaining and true!
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Professionals & Academics >> Educators
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
- Nonfiction >> Education >> General
- Nonfiction >> Education >> Elementary School
- Nonfiction >> Education >> Pedagogy