Lighting Their Fires by Rafe Esquith audiobook

Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

By Rafe Esquith
Read by James Yaegashi

Recorded Books, Inc.

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9781664502017

  • ISBN: 9781664609846

Runtime: 5.98 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Family & Relationships
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

An award-winning educator and the New York Times best-selling author of Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, Rafe Esquith knows a thing or two about connecting with today's young people. Here he offers parents sound, proven advice on raising children ready to thrive in the 21st century.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Celebrating his young students’ everyday accomplishments, Esquith outlines the struggles and stakes that face them all, while making teaching (and learning) look easy.” Publishers Weekly
“An inspiring, helpful resource.” Booklist

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Author

Author Bio: Rafe Esquith

Author Bio: Rafe Esquith

Rafe Esquith is an American teacher who taught at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, in Los Angeles, California, from 1984 until 2015. Esquith has authored books about teaching and his annual class Shakespeare productions were featured in the 2005 documentary The Hobart Shakespeareans.

His teaching honors include the 1992 Teacher of the Year, for The Walt Disney Company’s American Teacher Awards, a Sigma Beta Delta Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University, Oprah Winfrey’s $100,000 “Use Your Life Award”, Parents Magazine’s “As You Grow Award”, National Medal of Arts, and Esquith was made an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD
Category: Nonfiction/Family & Relationships
Runtime: 5.98
Audience: Adult
Language: English