Rafe Esquith and The Hobart Shakespeareans Official Website
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Rafe Esquith and The Hobart Shakespeareans Official Website.
www.hobartshakespeareans.org/ |
Inner-City Teacher Takes No Shortcuts to Success : NPR
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Apr 26, 2005 … For 24 years, Rafe Esquith has taught at an inner city school in Los Angeles, inspiring his fifth graders to excel far beyond the low …
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4608476 |
P.O.V. – The Hobart Shakespeareans . About the Film . About Rafe …
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Rafe Esquith grew up in Los Angeles and attended the city’s public schools. A 1981 graduate of UCLA, Esquith has taught fifth grade at Hobart Boulevard …
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/hobart/about_rafe.html Podcast by Rafe Esquith–THIS IS WORTH LISTENING TO!
“Reading is something that educated people do everyday to engage themselves with the world.”
“Kids are spending too much time alone and they make poor decisions about how to spend their time.”
“making my class a safe haven”
“teaching them skills they need to get out of poverty”
“He challenged me to stay away from the ordinary, and I did.”
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redpony said,
July 18, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Here’s another exciting program getting students involved in technology. Barrinton Irving is the first black pilot to fly completely around the world–at age 23! He has founded an organization named “Build and Soar” which is giving students from Florida a chance to build planes and learn about careers in aeronautics.
http://sev.prnewswire.com/airlines-aviation/20070517/AQTH09117052007-1.html
http://www.golocaljamaica.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1179518760/5
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4081/is_200709/ai_n21099969