Educating Esmé

Author : Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565129719

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At once "a pop culture phenomenon" (Publishers Weekly) and "screamingly funny" (Booklist), Educating Esmé "should be read by anyone who's interested in the future of public education" (Boston Phoenix Literary Section). A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé—as she prefers to be called—does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. Her diary opens a window into a real-life classroom from a teacher’s perspective. While battling bureaucrats, gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this gifted young woman reveals what it takes to be an exceptional teacher. Heroine to thousands of parents and educators, Esmé now shares more of her ingenious and yet down-to-earth approaches to the classroom in a supplementary guide to help new teachers hit the ground running. As relevant and iconoclastic as when it was first published, Educating Esmé is a classic, as is Madame Esmé herself.

Author : Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565129719

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Educating Esmé by Esmé Raji Codell Pdf

At once "a pop culture phenomenon" (Publishers Weekly) and "screamingly funny" (Booklist), Educating Esmé "should be read by anyone who's interested in the future of public education" (Boston Phoenix Literary Section). A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé—as she prefers to be called—does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. Her diary opens a window into a real-life classroom from a teacher’s perspective. While battling bureaucrats, gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this gifted young woman reveals what it takes to be an exceptional teacher. Heroine to thousands of parents and educators, Esmé now shares more of her ingenious and yet down-to-earth approaches to the classroom in a supplementary guide to help new teachers hit the ground running. As relevant and iconoclastic as when it was first published, Educating Esmé is a classic, as is Madame Esmé herself.

Author : EsmŽ Raji Codell
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565122796

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Educating EsmŽ by EsmŽ Raji Codell Pdf

An enthusiastic first-year teacher in the Chicago public school system reveals her frustrations, achievements, and struggles to maintain her individuality in the face of incompetent administrators, abusive parents, gang members, and weary teachers.

Author : Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0340883715

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Sahara Special by Esmé Raji Codell Pdf

Sahara is thrilled to be moving out of the special education class and into repeat fifth grade - at last she is 'normal dumb' and not 'special dumb'. Then her new teacher arrives and, with the aid of some unusual teaching methods, shows Sahara just how clever she actually is.

Author : Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher : Tinder Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755372263

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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Pdf

From the Costa Award winning, bestselling author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed. 'Unputdownable' Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?

Author : Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1565123085

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How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esmé Raji Codell Pdf

"An exuberant treasure trove for parents." —Publishers Weekly Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on. Esmé Raji Codell—an inspiring children's literature specialist and an energetic teacher—has the solution. She's turned her years of experience with children, parents, librarians, and fellow educators into a great big indispensable volume designed to help parents get their kids excited about reading. Here are hundreds of easy and inventive ideas, innovative projects, creative activities, and inspiring suggestions that have been shared, tried, and proven with children from birth through eighth grade. This five-hundred-page volume is brimming with themes for superlative storytimes and book-based birthday parties, ideas for mad-scientist experiments and half-pint cooking adventures, stories for reluctant readers and book groups for boys, step-by-step instructions for book parades, book-related crafts, storytelling festivals, literature-based radio broadcasts, readers' theater, and more. There are book lists galore, with subject-driven reading recommendations for science, math, cooking, nature, adventure, music, weather, gardening, sports, mythology, poetry, history, biography, fiction, and fairy tales. Codell's creative thinking and infectious enthusiasm will empower even the busiest parents and children to include literature in their lives.

Author : Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416990864

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Fairly Fairy Tales by Esmé Raji Codell Pdf

Best-selling author Esme Raji Codell takes readers through a very different verison of some beloved fairy-tales in Fairly Fairy Tales.

Author : Esmé Weijun Wang
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141991542

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The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang Pdf

'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain. What happens when your whole conception of yourself is turned upside down? When you're aware of what is occurring to you, but unable to do anything about it? Written with immediacy and unflinching honesty, this visceral and moving book is Wang's story, as she steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light. Following her own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in her life, she ranges over everything from how we label mental illness to her own use of fashion and make-up to present herself as high-functioning, from the failures of the higher education system to how factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease compounded her experiences. Wang's analytical, intelligent eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with haunting personal narrative. The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core and provides unique insight into a condition long misdiagnosed and much misunderstood.

Author : Brendan Halpin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504009690

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Losing My Faculties by Brendan Halpin Pdf

In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist. Unique among teaching memoirs, Losing My Faculties is not the story of a heroic teacher who transforms the lives of his hardbitten students; rather, it’s the inspirational and often unpretty truth about people who choose to get up ridiculously early day after day and year after year to go stand in front of teenagers. It’s also a rarely-seen, all-access view of both suburban and urban education, including the ugly truth behind the mythology at a much-hyped charter school.

Author : Esme Raji Codell
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061455164

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Seed by Seed by Esme Raji Codell Pdf

His real name was John Chapman. He grew apples. But wait. So what? Why should we remember him and read about him and think about him and talk about him today, more than two hundred years after he was born? Why should we call him a hero? Esme Raji Codell and Lynne Rae Perkins show us, in eloquent words and exhilarating pictures, why Johnny Appleseed matters now, perhaps more than ever, in our loud and wired and fast-paced world.

Author : Esme Kerr
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545904056

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Mischief at Midnight by Esme Kerr Pdf

The thrilling follow-up to boarding school mystery The Girl with the Glass Bird. Best friends... for never?Anastasia Stolonov and Edie Wilson are back at boarding school after spending the summer apart, and they can't wait to be dormmates again! Unfortunately, things don't go as planned, and Edie is stuck with Janet, the new girl at Knight's Haddon. Janet isn't like anyone the other girls have ever met before. She's cool, confident, and a little rebellious, so Edie is thrilled that Janet seems to like her. And as Edie's friendship with Anastasia becomes rocky, Janet is the only one on Edie's side. But when mysterious things begin to happen, Edie starts to think that Janet may not be all she seems--and suddenly events take a dangerous turn. Will Edie be able to salvage her friendships and uncover what's going on before the clock runs out?

Author : Rafe Esquith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781101622872

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Real Talk for Real Teachers by Rafe Esquith Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling author and world-renown teacher offers no-nonsense wisdom for teachers of all ages There’s no one teachers trust more to give them classroom advice than Rafe Esquith. After more than thirty years on the job, Esquith still puts in the countless classroom hours familiar to every dedicated educator. But where his New York Times bestseller Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire was food for a teacher’s mind, Real Talk for Real Teachers is food for a teacher’s soul. Esquith candidly tackles the three stages of life for the career teacher and offers encouragement to see them through the difficult early years, advice on mid-career classroom building, and novel ideas for longtime educators. With his trademark mix of humor, practicality, and boundless compassion, Esquith proves the perfect companion for teachers who need a quick pick-me-up, a long heart-to-heart, or just a momentary reminder that they’re not alone.

Author : Tamara Macfarlane
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444905335

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Amazing Esme by Tamara Macfarlane Pdf

Follow the wildly imaginative adventures of Esme as she leaves behind her circus home for the first time to spend the summer with her cousins Magnus, Cosmo and Gus at Maclinkey Castle where it's easy to get lost and where you can discover all sorts of weird and wonderful animals in unlikely places - there are porcupines in beds, lizards in drawers and giraffes on the loo. It's all a little wonderful and a lot overwhelming and when her pet donkey, Donk, turns up in a parcel sent from her parents, the fun really begins. When hundreds of baby penguins hatch in Esme's top floor bedroom, the children have to figure out how to get them outside. Esme and her cousin have the ingenious idea of building a helter skelter around the castle turret, but this is just the start - soon Maclinkey Castle is turned into a full-on Fairground Circus with a big wheel, Bumper Bears, and the show stopping Flying Tigers starring Esme herself!

Author : Esme Raji Codell
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061455199

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It's Time for Preschool! by Esme Raji Codell Pdf

Hooray! It's time to go to preschool. And that means it's time for . . . Having fun Making friends Learning about the world Sharing with others Using your manners Playing games Running, jumping, and swinging Imagining and creating Snacks and naps Drop-off and pick-up More, more, more! EsmÉ Raji Codell and Sue RamÁ introduce very young children—and their parents and caregivers—to the world of preschool in this cheerful and welcoming book that is guaranteed to make the first day (and every day) a bit less scary and a lot more fun!

Author : Esme Raji Codell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0053240510

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