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  • Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire

    The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56

    by Rafe Esquith ...
    Read Rafe Esquith's posts on the Penguin Blog.From one of America’s most celebrated educators, an inspiring guide to transforming every child’s educationIn a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and drugs, there is an exceptional classroom known as Room 56. The fifth graders inside are first-generation immigrants who live in poverty and speak English as a second language. They also ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Real Talk for Real Teachers

    Advice for Teachers from Rookies to Veterans: "No Retreat, No Surrender!"

    by Rafe Esquith ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author and world-renown teacher offers no-nonsense wisdom for teachers of all agesThere’s no one teachers trust more to give them classroom advice than Rafe Esquith. After more than thirty years on the job, Esquith still puts in the countless classroom hours familiar to every dedicated educator. But where his New York Times bestseller Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Lighting Their Fires

    How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up,Shook-up World

    by Rafe Esquith ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire shares his proven methods for creating compassionate childrenDuring twenty-five years of teaching at Hobart Elementary School in inner city Los Angeles, Rafe Esquith has helped thousands of children maximize their potential—and became the only teacher in history to receive the president's National Medal of Arts. In Lighting ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • There Are No Shortcuts

    by Rafe Esquith ...
    Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known as the Jungle, where few of his students speak English at home, and many are from poor or troubled ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire

    The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56

    by Rafe Esquith ...
    Narrated by James Yaegashi ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    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, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lighting Their Fires

    How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

    by Rafe Esquith ...
    Narrated by James Yaegashi ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 59 min

    An award-winning educator and the New York Times best-selling author of Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, Rafe Esquith knows a thing or two about connecting with today's young people. Here he offers parents sound, proven advice on raising children ready to thrive in the 21st century. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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