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Book Review of The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child

The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child
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For a beginning teacher, this book is great. However, I think teachers need to remember that there is a difference between rules and procedures. A lot of the "rules" Ron Clark describes are procedures and ways he did things in his classrooms. This is not the Bible of teaching like some people make it out to be but if you are having a hard time with classroom management, it is a good place to start. It's also inspiring to see the difference he makes in the lives of "tough kids".