Lighting Their Fires : How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-Up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World Paperback - 2010
by Rafe Esquith
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One of the most celebrated educators who's also a "New York Times"-bestselling author teaches parents how to create extraordinary children--in the classroom and beyond.
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- Title Lighting Their Fires : How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-Up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
- Author Rafe Esquith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2010
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0143117661I2N00
- ISBN 9780143117667 / 0143117661
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code 649.1
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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. 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.
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.
