Esquith: Education can't be 'made easy'
Teacher Rafe Esquith has a new book, Lighting Their Fires. He tells Teacher Magazine that education takes time. To be good at anything — anything! — takes thousands and thousands of hours of patient...
View ArticleEsquith’s new book geared to rookie teachers
Rafe Esquith, who teaches Shakespeare to low-income Hispanic and Korean fifth graders in Los Angeles, has come out with a new book, Real Talk for Real Teachers: Advice for Teachers from Rookies to...
View ArticleConsistency creates ‘safe haven’
“One of the ways to combat the effects of living in poverty is to provide children with a really stable force,” teacher Rafe Esquith told Valerie Strauss. “I dress the same way. I have the same mood...
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Esquith suspended — for reading Twain?
Rafe Esquith with his fifth-grade students at Hobart School in Los Angeles. Can Los Angeles Unified administrators really be this stupid? Rafe Esquith, the award-winning teacher and author known for...
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It started with a joke
Rafe Esquith, famed for his fifth graders’ Shakespeare performances, has been suspended from teaching at his Los Angeles school since March because he joked about performing nude, reports Jay Mathews...
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Esquith fired: Is it a witch hunt?
Former “teacher of the year” Rafe Esquith was fired by the Los Angeles school board on charges of inappropriately touching minors, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a letter to Esquith’s attorneys in...
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