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Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
Educating Esme Diary of a Teacher's First Year - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Esme Raji Codell There aren't too many teachers who are written about in the New Yorker, People, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, and excerpted in Reader's Digest. But Esme Raji Codell is no ordinary teacher. An irrepressible spirit, she wears costumes in the classroom, dances with the kids during math lessons, rollerskates down the hallways, and puts on rous... more »ing performances with at-risk students in the library.
In Educating Esme, the uncensored diary of her first year teaching in a Chicago public school, she opens a window into the closed world of a real-life classroom. Refusing to let anything get in the way of delivering the education her fifth-graders deserve, this dedicated teacher finds herself battling bureaucrats, gang members, inflexible administrators, angry children, and her own insecurities, while at the same time changing her students' lives forever.
Read by the author. 2 sound cassettes (3 hr.)« less