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Overview

One of America's most celebrated educators teaches parents how to create extraordinary children-in the classroom and beyond

In his bestselling book, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, readers were introduced to Rafe Esquith and his extraordinary students in Hobart Elementary School's Room 56. Using his amazing and inspiring classroom techniques, Esquith has helped thousands of children learn to maximize their potential. In Lighting Their Fires, Esquith shows that children aren't born extraordinary; they become that way as a result of parents and teachers who instill values that serve them not just in school, but for the rest of their lives. Framed by a ...

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Overview

One of America's most celebrated educators teaches parents how to create extraordinary children-in the classroom and beyond

In his bestselling book, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, readers were introduced to Rafe Esquith and his extraordinary students in Hobart Elementary School's Room 56. Using his amazing and inspiring classroom techniques, Esquith has helped thousands of children learn to maximize their potential. In Lighting Their Fires, Esquith shows that children aren't born extraordinary; they become that way as a result of parents and teachers who instill values that serve them not just in school, but for the rest of their lives. Framed by a class trip to a major league baseball game, Lighting Their Fires moves inning by inning through concepts that help children build character and develop enriching lives. Whether he is highlighting the importance of time management or offering a step-by-step discussion of how children can become good decision makers, Esquith shows how parents can equip their kids with all the tools they need to find success and have fun in the process. Using examples from classic films and great books, he stresses the value of sacrifice, the importance of staying true to oneself, and the danger that television can pose to growing young minds. Lighting Their Fires is that rarest of education books: one that explains not just how to make our children great students, but how to make them thoughtful and honorable people.

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Rafe Esquith's books all have clever titles (Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire; There Are No Shortcuts), but this L.A. elementary school teacher isn't a Mr. Gimmick; he's an award-winning educator whose students year after year validate his principles with their academic and vocational success. In this book, he lays out a systematic plan for parents who want their kids to succeed. Esquith's Lighting Their Fires is no mere salve; it is another salvo in the war for young minds that must be won.
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In his follow-up to Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, elementary school teacher Esquith focuses on financially disadvantaged but scholastically ambitious fifth-graders from Hobart Elementary School, located in the middle of a critically poor Los Angeles neighborhood. Directed primarily at parents, educators and administrators, this volume offers anecdotes and suggestions for inspiring and encouraging each child to live up to his or her tremendous promise. Framed by the story of a Dodgers baseball game to which he brings a small group of students, Esquith notes the values of his students in contrast to many of the adult ticket-holders: punctuality, focus, confidence, selflessness, humility, and others. He then probes the meaning of each value, like the way being on time reflects a belief in control over one's destiny, as well as a sense of responsibility. Celebrating his young students' everyday accomplishments, Esquith outlines the struggles and stakes that face them all, while making teaching (and learning) look easy.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780670021086
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 8/25/2009
  • Pages: 208
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Rafe Esquith
Rafe Esquith

Rafe Esquith has taught at Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles for twenty-four years. He is the only teacher to have been awarded the president's National Medal of the Arts. His many other honors and awards include the American Teacher Award, Parents magazine As You Grow Award, Oprah Winfrey's Use Your Life Award TM, and People magazine's Heroes Among Us Award.

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  • Posted September 9, 2009

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    "Forget it! Another home run for Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans!"

    That's how the great Dodgers announcer Vin Scully might call the release of this book, Rafe Esquith's third volume of insights into teaching and parenting.

    The living legend Vin Scully comes to mind for two reasons: first, Esquith's new book tells the story of a night at Dodgers game with five of his students, where they go to further their education about America's pastime; second, because Vinnie's love for the game, his passion for excellence, his dedication to his craft, and his gift for making work and play become one are all qualities Rafe Esquith works daily to instill in his inner-city Los Angeles fifth graders.

    Like thousands of others of teachers over the years, I've been welcomed as a visitor into Room 56 at Hobart Elementary, and it's a place where you always feel better when you leave than you did coming in. Why? You come away with a sense of hope for the future, I suppose. This book is the same way -- even dipping into various chapters in the bookstore when I first saw it, I felt, as a parent and teacher, encouraged, inspired, cheered on.

    For decades, as a teacher hungry for wisdom and mentorship, I have perused the Education section of bookstores. Over time I have obtained a shelf-full of very good books on progressive education and some gripping first-person stories. I find them all interesting and inspiring. But this book may be the first one I'll come back to and re-read in times of trouble. It is a truth-telling "Day in the Life" snapshot of a journey that is ongoing, a journey that is difficult, fun, painful, joyous, revelatory, numbing, all of those things, and also very, very important.

    Esquith, a veteran of a quarter of a century at Hobart Elementary, happily and humbly admits that his teaching becomes better every year, thanks to his students. So does his writing about his teaching. I look forward to his fourth book a few years from now!

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    Wonderful insights into motivating kids.

    I am very impressed with the ideas supported in this book. It talks about how to get kids to motivate from the inside rather than always using external rewards. I chose to rate it a 5 star though there were a few things to which I did not agree. Still overall a good read and insightful information.

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    The person I purchased this book for has a child that is so hyper that I almost wanted to purchase him a motorcycle helmet instead. I thought this book was a better choice. She didn't. She wrote me a thank you note and said in a very clipped manner "thanks for the interesting book." eek. She was not a happy camper, but let's face it, with a kid like that who could be happy.

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  • Posted December 5, 2009

    Must Read for All Parents and Educators

    Shares timeless principles to develop all children into extraordinary children. Wish I had read when my children were younger.

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