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Lighting Their Fires : How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-Up, Muddled-Up, Shook-Up World
by Esquith, Rafe (Author)-
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Summary
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.
This is a great book because it tells the truth. Rafe is saying that our culture, the stuff our children absorb countless times each day, is making it harder, not easier, to raise and teach children to become good citizens, good friends, good people.
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.
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Table of Contents
Pregame Show: Out of the Ordinary | p. 1 |
First Inning: The Readiness is all | p. 9 |
Second Inning: Keep your Eye on the Ball | p. 37 |
Third Inning: I can see for Miles and Miles | p. 61 |
Fourth Inning: Crossroads | p. 81 |
Fifth Inning: Sweeping Like Shakespeare | p. 99 |
Sixth Inning: All about Eve | p. 121 |
Seventh Inning: Even Higher | p. 141 |
Eighth Inning: School Daze | p. 159 |
Ninth Inning: The Long Run | p. 177 |
Postgame Show: Throwing Starfish | p. 189 |
Acknowledgments | p. 193 |
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