Teacher Of The Year

Edward Scott Ibur uses brazen and cutting satire to relay the story of a middle school teacher clinging to his career and dignity during a yaer spent in professional purgatory. 7th grade English teacher, Scott Eisenberg, bears the brunt of his principal's wrath through lousy evaluations and personal humiliation after a handful of his students fail the critical year-end state assessment. Given the option of termination or probation, the teacher agrees to work with three interventionists (shadows): an acrophobic Nepalese Sherpa, an inflexible retired army general and a streetwise hip-hop DJ who lays down the novel's diverse musical soundtrack featuring more than 100 songs. Eisenberg recounts a year spent with these unlikely saviors both in and out of the classroom. Similar to the stylings of Thank You for Smoking, Catch 22, Lucky Jim— Teacher of the Year and is a character driven novel about a teacher ensnared by No Child Left Behind and the ramifications of standardized testing pressure.

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Teacher Of The Year

Edward Scott Ibur uses brazen and cutting satire to relay the story of a middle school teacher clinging to his career and dignity during a yaer spent in professional purgatory. 7th grade English teacher, Scott Eisenberg, bears the brunt of his principal's wrath through lousy evaluations and personal humiliation after a handful of his students fail the critical year-end state assessment. Given the option of termination or probation, the teacher agrees to work with three interventionists (shadows): an acrophobic Nepalese Sherpa, an inflexible retired army general and a streetwise hip-hop DJ who lays down the novel's diverse musical soundtrack featuring more than 100 songs. Eisenberg recounts a year spent with these unlikely saviors both in and out of the classroom. Similar to the stylings of Thank You for Smoking, Catch 22, Lucky Jim— Teacher of the Year and is a character driven novel about a teacher ensnared by No Child Left Behind and the ramifications of standardized testing pressure.

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Teacher Of The Year

Teacher Of The Year

by Edward Scott Ibur
Teacher Of The Year

Teacher Of The Year

by Edward Scott Ibur

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Overview

Edward Scott Ibur uses brazen and cutting satire to relay the story of a middle school teacher clinging to his career and dignity during a yaer spent in professional purgatory. 7th grade English teacher, Scott Eisenberg, bears the brunt of his principal's wrath through lousy evaluations and personal humiliation after a handful of his students fail the critical year-end state assessment. Given the option of termination or probation, the teacher agrees to work with three interventionists (shadows): an acrophobic Nepalese Sherpa, an inflexible retired army general and a streetwise hip-hop DJ who lays down the novel's diverse musical soundtrack featuring more than 100 songs. Eisenberg recounts a year spent with these unlikely saviors both in and out of the classroom. Similar to the stylings of Thank You for Smoking, Catch 22, Lucky Jim— Teacher of the Year and is a character driven novel about a teacher ensnared by No Child Left Behind and the ramifications of standardized testing pressure.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940044693050
Publisher: Edward Scott Ibur
Publication date: 06/19/2012
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 537 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

A St. Louis native and longtime English teacher, Edward Scott Ibur is the director for the St. Louis Literary Award founded in 1967 at Saint Louis University. Under Ibur's tenure, the award recipients have included Margaret Atwood, Stephen Sondheim, and most recently, Edwidge Danticat. Edward Ibur is also the director of Gifted Arts, a creative arts program for writing and visual arts he started in 1997 (https://giftedarts.org/). Ibur is currently working on his second novel and lives in University City, MO.

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