Lighting Their Fires by Rafe Esquith

Lighting Their Fires by Rafe Esquith

The New York Times bestselling author of Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire shares his proven methods for creating compassionate children

During 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 Their Fires, Esquith translates the inspiring methods from Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire for parents. Using lessons framed by a class trip to a Dodgers game, he moves inning by inning through concepts that explain how to teach children to be thoughtful and honorable people--as well as successful students--and to have fun in the process.

For the past twenty-eight years, Rafe Esquith has been a teacher at Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles. He is the only classroom teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts from the president. The American Teacher Award and People magazine's Heroes Among Us Award are among his many other distinctions and awards. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9780670021086
ISBN 10	0670021083
Title	Lighting Their Fires
Author	Rafe Esquith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2009-08-25
Number of pages	208
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