Search Results for Teachers -- United States -- Biography.

One teacher in 10 : LGBT educators share their stories

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2005.
2nd ed.
Book

The girls in the back of the class

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Johnson, LouAnne.
1995.
1st ed.
Book

Stories from the heart : teachers and students researching their literacy lives

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Meyer, Richard J.,
1996.
Book

Citizen teacher : the life and leadership of Margaret Haley

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Rousmaniere, Kate,
c2005.
Book

The master's wife

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Buck, Polly Stone.
1989.
1st ed.
Book

My second first year : leaving academia for a high school classroom

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Jones, Joseph R.,
[2019]
"Dr. Jones returned to the high school classroom after 15 years in higher education, most recently as an Associate Dean. This text chronicles his journey into his new teaching career. The premise of the text is framed on the attributes of a relational pedagogy. As such, the book discusses the relationships that Dr. Jones developed throughout the academic year. I n this capacity, relational pedagogy allows the reader a unique lens through which to view the schooling process in this metropolitan southern town. In the book, Jones examines topics such as standardized testing, racism, sexuality, cheating, among other topics, through a critical theory paradigm. In doing so, Jones is able to interweave theoretical concepts within the daily actions of the schooling process. As such, the text is a unique reconceptualization of schools and the purpose of schools"--
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Discovering senior space : a memoir

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Juhasz, Suzanne,
[2017]
Book

I'd like to apologize to every teacher I ever had : my year as a rookie teacher at Northeast High

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Danza, Tony.
©2012.
1st ed.
Himself a "discipline problem" in high school, actor Tony Danza discusses his experiences during a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Philadelphia's Northeast High School, exploring the difficulties and joys of keeping today's technologically savvy and often alienated students engaged.
Book

Across an inland sea : writing in place from Buffalo to Berlin

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Howe, Nicholas.
c2003.
Book

From the bayou to the bay : the autobiography of a Black Liberation scholar

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Smith, Robert C.
[2021]
"The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies"--
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One teacher in ten in the new millennium : LGBT educators speak out about what's gotten better ... and what hasn't

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[2015]
"Perhaps no profession is as challenging for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people than teaching. Working under constant suspicion arising from the long-held stereotype of LGBT people as pedophiles who are "after your kids," teachers who are LGBT face enormous challenges. The third edition of One Teacher in Ten allows LGBT educators to speak in their own voices about their experience of being LGBT in schools. Following on two volumes of completely original stories published in 1994 and 2004, the all-new third edition of One Teacher in Ten brings together stories from around America - and around the world - of teachers negotiating the challenge of being LGBT in the classroom. The result is a rich tapestry of varied experiences. From "Mr. G" who feels he must remain closeted in the comparative safety of New York City Public Schools to teachers who are out in places as far afield as South Africa and China, the educators in One Teacher in Ten span the full gamut of experiences, proving that LGBT teachers are as diverse and complex as humanity itself. Voices largely absent from the first two editions - including transgender people, people of color, and educators from outside the US - feature prominently in the new collection, giving readers a richer and deeper understanding of the diverse experiences of LGBT educators"--
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Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979 : a historian's biography

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Reid, John G.
[2005]
"Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who interpreted North American colonial history within a British imperial framework." "In this probing biography, John G. Reid examines Barnes's life as a female historian, providing a revealing glimpse into the gendered experience of professional academia in that era. Reid also examines the imperial school, which, although rapidly losing favour by the 1950s, had yielded results that were crucial to the study of North American colonial history."--Jacket.
Electronic resource

As bad as they say? : three decades of teaching in the Bronx

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Mayer, Janet Grossbach.
2011.
1st ed.
"Rundown, vermin-infested buildings; rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems; children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and this book tells the heroic stories of the author's students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher. In 1995, her students began a pen-pal exchange with South African teenagers who, under apartheid, had been denied an education. Almost uniformly, the South Africans asked, "Is the Bronx as bad as they say?" This dedicated teacher promised those students and all future ones that she would write a book to help change the stereotypical image of Bronx students and show that, in spite of overwhelming obstacles, they are outstanding young people, capable of the highest achievements. She walks the reader through the decrepit school building, describing the deplorable physical conditions that students and faculty navigate daily. Then, in eight chapters eight amazing young people are introduced, a small sample of the more than 14,000 students the writer has felt honored to teach. She describes her own Bronx roots and the powerful influences that made her such a determined teacher. Finally, the veteran teacher sounds the alarm to stop the corruption and degradation of public education in the guise of what are euphemistically labeled reforms. She also expresses optimism that public education and our democracy can still be saved, urgently calling on all to become involved and help save our schools."--Publisher's abstract.
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To the boathouse : a memoir

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Caws, Mary Ann.
2004.
Electronic resource

In search of Susanna

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Bunkers, Suzanne L.
©1996.
Electronic resource

An unquiet mind

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Jamison, Kay R.
1995.
1st ed.
From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.
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Spearpoint; teacher in America.

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Ashton-Warner, Sylvia.
1972.
[1st ed.]
Book

Leaders in education.

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Leaders in education.
Serial

Journey with children : the autobiography of a teacher

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Hawkins, Frances Pockman,
c1997.
Book

What it means to be a teacher : the reality and gift of teaching

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Gose, Michael D.
2007.
Book

The discipline of hope : learning from a lifetime of teaching

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Kohl, Herbert R.
c1998.
Book

Children learning : a teacher's classroom diary

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Lillard, Paula Polk.
1980.
Book

Light of the feather : a teacher's journey into Native American classrooms and culture

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Fedullo, Mick,
1993.
1st Anchor ed.
Book

Light of the feather : pathways through contemporary Indian America

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Fedullo, Mick,
c1992.
1st ed.
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Finally it's Friday : school and work in mid-America, 1921-1933

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Reid, Loren,
1981.
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Stories from a teachers heart: memories of love, life, and family

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Wirtz, Rita M.,
[2019]
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Cottage in the woods : one teacher's journey of discovery from the Alaska Bush to the Oregon Outback

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Petersen, John T.
c2007.
Book

To raise myself a little : the diaries and letters of Jennie, a Georgia teacher, 1851-1886

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Lines, Amelia Akehurst.
©1982.
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This teaching life : how I taught myself to teach

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Wassermann, Selma.
c2004.
Book

Chalkboard heroes : twelve courageous teachers and their deeds of valor

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Marzell, Terry Lee,
[2015]
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Lessons learned and cherished : the teacher who changed my life

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2023.
First edition.
"A giftable collection of essays from celebrity contributors celebrating the great work of teachers or a teacher they admire, curated by ABC journalist Deborah Roberts. Contributors include Oprah Winfrey, Jenna Bush Hager, Robin Roberts, Brooke Shields, Octavia Spencer, Misty Copeland, among others. Everyone can name a teacher that had an impact on their life. Educators not only open our minds to new ideas, but they also help us recognize our potential and our passions. However, they rarely get credit for the life changing work they do, and they may not have any idea how that work can impact a student all the way into adulthood. In Lessons Learned and Cherished: The Teacher Who Changed My Life, renowned ABC journalist Deborah Roberts curates a collection of essays, letters, and musings from celebrity friends and colleagues alike that share how teachers changed them and helped them get to where they are today"--
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Teacher narrative as critical inquiry : rewriting the script

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Ritchie, Joy S.
c2000.
Book

Matchsticks : an education in black and white

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Engh, Fred,
[2021]
"Fred Engh was white. He would become the first white student to attend Maryland State, a segregated college. His intention was not to break any racial barriers or make any headlines. He simply wanted a better life for himself and his family as an accredited teacher. What he learned from attending that college however was something he had not expected. This is a tale of discovery, understanding, and personal change. A lesson still as valuable today as it was then"--
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Ethics and teaching : a religious perspective on revitalizing education

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Block, Alan A.,
2009.
Book

Why teach? : notes and questions from a life in education

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Nehring, James,
[2015]
The author, who "accidentally" landed in teaching a year out of college, discovered, despite his love for his new profession, a school system consumed with order, efficiency, rules, and punishment. Why Teach? is an inside journey into American education and a call to move toward a more humanistic approach to teaching.--Adapted from publisher description
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An American teacher in Argentina : Mary Gorman's nineteenth-century odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas

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Peard, Julyan G.,
[2016]
This is the story of Mary Gorman who, in 1869, was the first American woman to accept President Sarmiento's invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina. She lived a transnational and transformative life moving along Indian-White frontiers in the U.S. southwest and Argentina and participating in the early education of both countries. This book is based on original research and scholarly bibliography and accessible to both scholarly and general audiences.
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32 third graders and one class bunny : life lessons from teaching

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Done, Phillip.
2009
Phillip Done fixes staplers that won't staple, zippers that won't zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung "Happy Birthday" 657 times. A witness to the joys of discovery, Done inspires readers with the everyday adventures and milestones of his 32 third graders in this irresistible collection of bite-sized essays. From the nervous first day of school to the hectic Halloween parade to the disastrous spring musical, Done connects what happens in his classroom to the universal truths that touch us all. He reminds us of the delight of learning something for the first time and of the value of making a difference. 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny is for anyone who has ever taught children -- or been to third grade. It is a testament to the kids who uplift us -- and the teachers we will never forget. With just the right mix of humor and wisdom, Done reveals the enduring promise of elementary school as a powerful antidote to the cynicism of our times.
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Among men

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Siebers, Tobin.
c1998.
Book

A new day in the Delta : inventing school desegregation as you go

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Beckwith, David W.
©2009.
A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him a bit strange that he was accepted so quickly for this job while his other applications went nowhere, he was grateful for the opportunity. Beckwith reported for work to learn that he was to be assigned to an all-black school as the first step in Mississippi's long-deferred school d.
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Leaders in American education,

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1971.
Book

Souvenirs fresh and rancid

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Adler, Alfred,
1983.
1st hardcover ed.
Book

Insatiable : a story of my nine lives

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Fischer, George Uri.
©2000.
Regular print

Behind barres : the mystique of masterly teaching

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Gale, Joseph.
c1980.
Book

The unforgiving minute : a soldier's education

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Mullaney, Craig M.
2009.
A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow.
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Doing battle : the making of a skeptic

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Fussell, Paul,
c1996.
1st ed.
Book

Raising Ollie : how my nonbinary art-nerd kid changed (nearly) everything I know

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Rademacher, Tom,
[2021]
"The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child"--
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Teaching genius : Dorothy DeLay and the making of a musician

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Sand, Barbara Lourie.
2000.
Book

Conspiring with forms : life in academic texts

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Caesar, Terry.
c1992.
Book

Exit the rainmaker

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Coleman, Jonathan.
1989.
One day Jay Carsey just disappeared. Why and where are the subjects of this book?
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English papers : a teaching life

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Pritchard, William H.
1995.
Book

Miseducated : a memoir

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Fleming, Brandon P.,
2021.
First edition.
"An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation through literature and debate from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator -- all by the age of 27"--
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Zechariah Chafee, Jr., defender of liberty and law

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Smith, Donald L.,
1986.
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Cold War exile : the unclosed case of Maurice Halperin

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Kirschner, Don S.
c1995.
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November 1948

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Dawson, Carl.
1990.
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The heart too long suppressed : a chronicle of mental illness

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Hebald, Carol.
c2001.
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On Coon Mountain : scenes from a childhood in the Oklahoma hills

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Ross, Glen,
c1992.
1st ed.
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The good preschool teacher : six teachers reflect on their lives

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Ayers, William,
c1989.
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The truth book : escaping a childhood of abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses: a memoir

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Castro, Joy.
c2005.
1st ed.
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Academic lives : memoir, cultural theory, and the university today

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Franklin, Cynthia G.
c2009.
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You've got to be carefully taught : learning and relearning literature

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Klinkowitz, Jerome.
c2001.
Book

The art of teaching

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Parini, Jay,
2005.
Writer and critic Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in a memoir replete with hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft for instructors of all levels. He offers valuable insight into the many challenges that educators face, from establishing a persona in the classroom, to fostering relationships with students, to balancing a teaching load with academic writing and research.
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Helen's eyes : a photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher

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Delano, Marfe Ferguson,
[2008]
The epic story of Annie Sullivan, the pioneering teacher who overcame disability and misfortune before achieving her success as one of the most famous educators of all time.
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Why did I get a B? : and other mysteries we're discussing in the faculty lounge

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Reed, Shannon,
2020.
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
"This hilarious, inspirational, and wise collection of personal essays and humor from a longtime educator explores all the joys, challenges, and absurdities of being a teacher, following in the footsteps of such classics as Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, The Courage to Teach, and Up the Down Staircase. Shannon Reed did not want to be a teacher, but now, after twenty years of working with children from preschool to college, there's nothing she'd rather be. In essays full of humor, heart, and wit, she illuminates the highs and lows of a job located at the intersection of youth and wisdom. Bringing you into the trenches of this most important and stressful career, she rolls her eyes at ineffectual administrators, weeps with her students when they experience personal tragedies, complains with her colleagues about their ridiculously short lunchbreaks, and presents the parent-teacher conference from the other side of the tiny table. From dealing with bullies and working with special needs students to explaining the unwritten rules of the teacher's lounge, Why Did I Get a B? is full of as much humor and heart as the job itself"--
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The search for Thomas F. Ward, teacher of Frederick Delius

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Gillespie, Don C.
1996.
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I'm the teacher, you're the student : a semester in the university classroom

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Allitt, Patrick.
c2005.
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Strings attached : one tough teacher and the gift of great expectations

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Lipman, Joanne,
[2013]
First edition.
A biography of a Ukranian-born public school music teacher "whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for his students"--Dust cover flap.
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Black teachers on teaching

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Foster, Michèle.
1997.
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Dreamtime : a happy book

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Pickering, Sam,
©2011.
Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making the ordinary appears wondrous.
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Me and Shakespeare : adventures with the Bard

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Gollob, Herman.
c2002.
1st ed.
Gollob, inspired by performance of Hamlet, immersed himself in all things Shakespearean.
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Go to the sources : Lucy Maynard Salmon and the teaching of history

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Bohan, Chara Haeussler,
c2004.
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I'm the teacher, you're the student : a semester in the university classroom

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Allitt, Patrick.
©2005.
Electronic resource

College girl : a memoir

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Gray-Rosendale, Laura,
©2013.
The inspirational memoir of a woman who survived a brutal sexual assault and went on to become a university professor.
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Bangkok journal : a Fulbright year in Thailand

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Garrett, Stephen A.,
©1986.
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Beautiful child

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Hayden, Torey L.
[2003], c2002.
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The story I tell myself : a venture in existentialist autobiography

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Barnes, Hazel Estella.
1998, 1997.
[Pbk. ed., 1998].
Electronic resource

Stella!: mother of modern acting

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Ochoa, Sheana,
[2014]
Arthur Miller decided to become a playwright after seeing her perform with the Group Theater. Marlon Brando attributed his acting to her genius as a teacher. Theater critic Robert Brustein calls her the greatest acting teacher in America. At the turn of the 20th century by which time acting had hardly evolved since classical Greece Stella Adler became a child star of the Yiddish stage in New York, where she was being groomed to refine acting craft and eventually help pioneer its modern gold standard: method acting. Stella's emphasis on experiencing a role through the actions in the given circumstances of the work directs actors toward a deep sociological understanding of the imagined characters: their social class, geographic upbringing, biography, which enlarges the actor's creative choices. Always "onstage," Stella's flamboyant personality disguised a deep sense of not belonging. Her unrealized dream of becoming a movie star chafed against an unflagging commitment to the transformative power of art. From her Depression-era plays with the Group Theatre to freedom fighting during WWII, Stella used her notoriety as a tool for change. For this book, Sheana Ochoa worked alongside Irene Gilbert, Stella's friend of 30 years, who provided Ochoa with a trove of Stella's personal and pedagogical materials, and Ochoa interviewed Stella's entire living family, including her daughter Ellen; her colleagues and friends, from Arthur Miller to Karl Malden; and her students from Robert De Niro to Mark Ruffalo. Unearthing countless unpublished letters and interviews, private audio recordings, Stella's extensive FBI file, class videos and private audio recordings, Ochoa's biography introduces one of the most under recognized, yet most influential luminaries of the 20th century.
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Teacher : the one who made the difference

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Edmundson, Mark,
c2002.
1st ed.
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You've got to be carefully taught : learning and relearning literature

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Klinkowitz, Jerome.
©2001.
Electronic resource

Teaching life : letters from a life in literature

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Salwak, Dale.
©2008.
1st ed.
Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, Teaching Life reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students. Both a reflection on a life in literature and a primer on teaching as a vocation, this soul-stirring work also provides behind-the-scenes stories of many of the authors who have influenced Dale Salwak's career.
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Miseducated : a memoir

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Academic lives : memoir, cultural theory, and the university today

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Franklin, Cynthia G.
©2009.
Electronic resource

The art of teaching

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Parini, Jay.
2005.
Writer and critic Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in a memoir replete with hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft for instructors of all levels. He offers valuable insight into the many challenges that educators face, from establishing a persona in the classroom, to fostering relationships with students, to balancing a teaching load with academic writing and research.
Electronic resource

When history is personal

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Schwartz, Mimi,
2018.
Electronic resource

Scenes of instruction : a memoir

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Awkward, Michael.
1999.
"Scenes of Instruction is the memoir of noted scholar of African American literature Michael Awkward. Structured around the commencement ceremonies that marked his graduations from various schools, it presents Awkward's coming-of-age as a bookish black male in the projects of 1970s Philadelphia. His relationships with his family and peers, their struggles with poverty and addiction, and his eventual move from underfunded urban schools to a prestigious private school all become parts of a memorable script."--BOOK JACKET. "As a male scholar who has come under fire for describing himself as a feminist critic, he reflects on such issues as identity politics and the politics of academia, affirmative action, and the Million Man March. By connecting his personal experiences with larger political, cultural, and professional questions, Awkward uses his life as a palette on which to blend equations of race and reading, urbanity and mutilation, alcoholism, pain, gender, learning, sex, literature, and love."--BOOK JACKET.
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Once a professor : a memoir of teaching in turbulent times

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Apps, Jerold W.,
2018.
E-book edition.
Electronic resource

Season of the witch : border lines, marginal notes

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Griffin, Gail B.
©1995.
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When men were the only models we had : my teachers Barzun, Fadiman, and Trilling

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Heilbrun, Carolyn G.,
c2002.
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Beautiful child

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Hayden, Torey L.,
2003.
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Island of bones : essays

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Castro, Joy.
c2012.
What is "identity" when you're a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah's Witnesses? The answer isn't easy. You won't find it in books. Joy Castro has turned an unmoored life of searching and striving to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones. In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time. In the experiences of her past--hunger and abuse, flight as a fourteen-year-old runaway, single motherhood, the revelations of her "true" ethnic identity, the suicide of her father--Castro finds the "jagged, smashed place of edges and fragments" that she pieces together to create an island all her own. Hers is a complicated but very real depiction of what it is to "jump class, " to not belong but to find one's voice in the interstices of identity.--From publisher description.
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Messengers of music : the legacy of Julia E. Crane

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Collins, Caron L.
©2011.
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Martha Hill and the making of American dance

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Soares, Janet Mansfield.
c2009.
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The inception of modern professional education : C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906

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Kimball, Bruce A.,
c2009.
Studies in legal history
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Martha Hill and the making of American dance

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Soares, Janet Mansfield.
©2009.
A lively and intimate portrait of an unsung heroine in American dance.
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Architect of justice : Felix S. Cohen and the founding of American legal pluralism

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Tsuk Mitchell, Dalia.
2007.
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Exiles and communities : teaching in the patriarchal wilderness

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Pagano, Jo Anne,
©1990.
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Scraping by in the big eighties

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Singer, Natalia Rachel,
©2004.
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Under the Rose : a Confession.

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Alaya, Flavia.
2018.
An explosive true story of passion and transgression rendered in exquisite prose.
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Catherine Cater : an elegant rise above race and gender as scholar and professor

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Dodge, Robert,
[2016]
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Lives of women public schoolteachers : scenes from American educational history

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Holmes, Madelyn,
1995.
Garland reference library of social science ; v. 833
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Island of bones : essays

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Castro, Joy.
©2012.
What is "identity" when you're a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah's Witnesses? The answer isn't easy. You won't find it in books. And you certainly won't find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro's unmoored life of searching and striving that she's turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones. In personal essays that plumb the depths of not-belonging, Castro takes the all-too-raw materials of her adolescence and young adulthood and views them through the prism of time. The result is an exquisitely rendered, richly detaile.
Electronic resource

The life and legacy of Fred Newton Scott

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Stewart, Donald C.
c1997.
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Fred Newton Scott, a gifted educator and theorist, spent his life working to improve educational instruction at all levels, and dramatically broadened the scope of studies in rhetoric with his imaginative and interdisciplinary research. He was at once a pragmatic reformer, describing to secondary school teachers how to base composition instruction on the student's own experience, and a visionary scholar who used empirical methods and cognitive psychology to expand the study of rhetoric. In The Life and Legacy of Fred Newton Scott, the authors combine their expertise in rhetoric studies with extensive research on Scott. Beginning in 1980, Donald Stewart corresponded with Scott's descendants and studied Scott's long-forgotten essays, speeches, and books in order to write a complete account of his rich scholarly life.
Book

The accidental scholar

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Sheth, Jagdish N.
2014.
""Jagdish's autobiography tells a fascinating life story in a few hundred pages of what it is to be, in one person, a scholar, change agent, advisor, and entrepreneur, in other words, a Renaissance Man."" Philip Kotler The Accidental Scholar is the autobiography of Professor Jagdish N. Sheth, a renowned scholar and one of the foremost authorities in the world on marketing and consumer behaviour. This is the fascinating story of a young man from India who went to America to realise the American Dream and became a world-renowned educator and thought-leader. Professor Sheth tells us about the ma
Electronic resource

In thought and action [electronic resource] : the enigmatic life of S.I. Hayakawa

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Haslam, Gerald W.
2011.
"One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa scrambling onto a sound truck parked in front of San Francisco State College amid campus unrest. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address the assembled demonstrators, but instead he ended up ripping out speaker wires and halting an illegal campus demonstration--or denying first-amendment rights to the crowd, depending on your perspective. Indeed, Hayakawa's entire life defies simplistic labels, and his ability to be categorized largely depends on personal perspective. This intimate and detailed biography draws on interviews with friends and family members, as well as Hayakawa's own papers and journals, to bring this controversial and fascinating figure to life. He was an enigma to colleagues as well as adversaries, a Republican senator who consistently bucked his party's ideals with his support of the women's movement, abortion rights, and even Ronald Reagan's search for a female running mate. The son of Japanese immigrants, born and raised in Canada before moving to the United States, Hayakawa emerges here as a complex and complicated figure. His blend of heritage, politics, artistic inclination, and intellectual achievement makes him quintessentially American"--
Electronic resource
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Sit down and shut up : how discipline can set students free

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Henderson, Cinque,
[2018]
First edition.
"On his first day as a substitute teacher, Cinque Henderson was cursed and yelled at by a class of 11th graders. One kid openly threatened him. Cinque, not wanting trouble, called the hall monitor, who escorted the student to the office. But five minutes later, the office sent him back. He carried a note that simply read, "OK to return to class." That was it: no suspension, no detention, no phone call home, no picking up trash after school, no sidebar conversation with the office to figure out how they could intervene. In the generation since Henderson had gone to public school in a poor black town in the rural South, the world had undergone dramatic change. Sit Down and Shut Up: How Discipline Can Set Children Free, part memoir, part jeremiad, is a passionate and personal analysis of that change, the story of Henderson's single year as substitute teacher in some of America's toughest schools. Henderson found that the culprits for the failures of our worst schools weren't some endless stream of unqualified teachers, but rather the result of population in crisis. He soon came to see that public school classrooms were hothouse laboratories/microcosms--chaotic, teeming, vibrant, tough--of all our nation's most vexing issues of race and class. Beneath the surface, the legacy and stain of race--the price of generational trauma, the cost of fatherlessness, the failures of capitalism, the false promise of meritocracy--played itself out in every single interaction Henderson had. Henderson also found solutions, namely a recommitment to the notion that discipline--emotional, psychological, behavioral and moral--wisely and properly understood, patiently and justly administered--was the only proper route to freedom and opportunity for generations of poor youth"--
Book

No finish line : lessons on life and career

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Feldberg, Meyer,
[2020]
"Meyer Feldberg is a storyteller. The source of his stories is his rich and unique life, which took him from South Africa under apartheid to a C-Suite in present-day New York, from the hallowed halls of academia to the frenzy of global investment banking. As with all storytellers, there is a purpose embedded in each of his stories that is specific in its details but universal in its message. No Finish Line is Meyer Feldberg as his friends and colleagues know him. It is the professor dispensing sage advice. It is the mentor telling a tale about himself that is really about you. In his telling, Feldberg's story-both his successes and his failures-is a lesson plan for how to lead a worthy personal and professional life. This concise volume reminds the reader of the importance of courage and decency in our relationships. Feldberg shows how values like self-awareness, personal responsibility, and generosity play out in ways that in retrospect become pivotal. He relates his regrets as well as his triumphs, candidly sharing how our failures to live up to our own expectations can continue to haunt us. Written by a leading fixture of New York's educational, cultural, and business elite, No Finish Line is an engaging portrait of what matters most in living a good and successful life"--
Electronic resource

A shot story : from juvie to Ph. D.

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Borkowski, David.
2015.
First edition.
"David Borkowski was nearly shot to death during a botched robbery when he was 15. Soon before turning 40, he obtained a Ph. D. in Literature and Rhetoric from the CUNY Graduate School. He is now a Professor of English. A Shot Story describes that journey"--
Electronic resource

From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds : the Memoirs of Irwin Weil.

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Irwin Weil; Tony Brown.
2015.
This book brings together a lifetime of experiences told by a beloved member of the field of Slavic languages and literature - Irwin Weil. During the Soviet era, Irwin frequently visited and corresponded with outstanding Russian cultural figures, such as Vladimir Nabokov, Korney Chukovsky, and Dmitrii Shostakovich. His deep love of the Russian people and their culture has touched the lives of countless students, in particular at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1966. It is these stories of an unassuming Jewish American from Cincinnati, Ohio who rubbed shoulders with some of the most prominent thinkers, writers, and musicians in the Soviet Union that are presented for the first time in this volume.
Electronic resource

The contributions of Martha Hill to American dance and dance education, 1900-1995

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McPherson, Elizabeth M.
©2008.
This book looks at the life of Martha Hill, the prominent educator and founding director of three pivotal degree-granting college dance programs or departments and two summer festivals. The first-hand narratives provide in-depth perspectives on Hill's life and legacy. This book contains 28 black and white photographs.
Electronic resource

Beautiful child

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hayden, Torey L.
2002.
1st ed.
A first-hand account by a special education teacher about five children in her classroom with a variety of needs and disabilities.
Book

Nontraditional : life lessons from a community college

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Kuhlman, Nan.
[2019]
First edition.
Book

Alan Brinkley : a life in history

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

[2019]
"Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut work, the National Book Award-winning Voices of Protest, launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of American political life--serious and original treatments of populist dissent, the role of mass media, the struggles of liberalism and conservatism, and the powers and limits of the presidency. A longtime professor at Harvard University and Columbia University, Brinkley has shaped the field of U.S. history for generations of students though his textbooks and his mentorship of some of today's foremost historians. Alan Brinkley: A Life in History brings together essays on his major works and ideas, as well as personal reminiscences from leading historians and thinkers beyond the academy whom Brinkley collaborated with, befriended, and influenced. Among the luminaries in this volume are the critic Frank Rich, the journalists Jonathan Alter and Nicholas Lemann, the biographer A. Scott Berg, and the historians Eric Foner and Lizabeth Cohen. Together, the seventeen essays that form this book chronicle the life and thought of a working historian, the development of historical scholarship in our time, and the role that history plays in our public life. At a moment when Americans are pondering the plight of their democracy, this volume offers a timely overview of a consummate student--and teacher--of the American political tradition."--Provided by publisher.
Electronic resource

Improvising out loud : my life teaching Hollywood how to act

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Corey, Jeff,
[2017]
Jeff Corey (1914-2002) made a name for himself in the 1940s as a character actor in films like Superman and the Mole Men (1951), Joan of Arc (1948), and The Killers (1946). Everything changed in 1951, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Corey refused to name names and was promptly blacklisted, which forced him to walk away from a vibrant livelihood as an actor and embark on a career as one of the industry's most revered acting instructors. In Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act, Corey recounts his extraordinary story. Among the actors who would soon fill his classes were James Dean, Kirk Douglas, Jane Fonda, Rob Reiner, Jack Nicholson, and Leonard Nimoy. In 1962, when the blacklist ended, Corey was one of the industry's first trailblazers to seamlessly reboot his acting career and secure roles in some of the classic films of the era, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), True Grit (1969), and Little Big Man (1970), in which he starred as the infamous Wild Bill Hickok. Throughout his life, Corey sought to capture the human heart: in conflict, in terror, in love, and in all of its small triumphs. His memoir, which he wrote with his daughter Emily Corey, provides a unique and personal perspective on the man whose teaching inspired some of Hollywood's biggest names to star in the roles that made them famous.
Electronic resource

Dauntless women in childhood education, 1856-1931,

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Snyder, Agnes,
1972.
Book

Don't call me home : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Auder, Alexandra,
[2023]
"A moving and wickedly funny memoir about one woman's life as the daughter of a Warhol superstar, and the intimate bonds of mother-daughter relationships Alex Auder's life began at the Chelsea Hotel--New York City's infamous bohemian hangout--when her mother, Viva, a longtime resident of the hotel and one of Andy Warhol's superstars, went into labor in the lobby. These first moments of Alex's life, documented by her filmmaker father, Michel Auder, portended the whirlwind childhood and teen years that Alex would go on to have. At the center of it all is Viva: a glamorous, larger-than-life woman with mercurial moods, who brings Alex with her on the road from gig to gig, splitting time between a home in Connecticut and Auder's father's loft in 1980s Tribeca, back again to the Chelsea hotel, and spending summers with Viva's upper-middle-class, conservative, hyperpatriarchal family of origin. In Don't Call Me Home, Auder meditates on the seedy glory of her childhood being raised by two counterculture icons, from walking a pet goat around Chelsea and joining the Squat Theatre company to coparenting her younger sister, Gaby, with her mother in the Chelsea Hotel and partying in East Village nightclubs. Flitting between this world and her present-day life as a yoga instructor, actor, mother, wife, and much-loved Instagram provocateur, Auder weaves a stunning, moving, and hilarious portrait of a family, and what it means to move away from being your mother's daughter into being a person of your own"--
Book

The inception of modern professional education : C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906

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Kimball, Bruce A.,
[2009]
Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently emulated. In this first full-length biography of the educator and jurist, Bruce Kimball explores Langdell's controversial role in modern professional education and in jurisprudence. Langdell founded his model on the idea of academic meritocracy. According to this principle, scholastic achievement determines or should determine one's merit in professional life. Cf. Introduction, page 2.
Electronic resource

Lone voyagers : academic women in coeducational universities, 1870-1937

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

1989.
Book

Miss Hill [DVD] : making dance matter

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

[2014]
Widescreen.
Martha Hill was a visionary who fought against great odds to make contemporary and modern dance a legitimate art form in America. In a career spanning most of the twentieth century, she became a behind-the-scenes leader in the dance world, and the founding director of Juilliard's Dance Division. Here is a celebration of dance and an examination of the passion to keep it alive.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD] :

Lone voyagers : academic women in coeducational universities, 1870-1937

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

1989.
Book

Struggling to learn : an intimate history of school desegregation in South Carolina

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Thomas, June Manning,
[2021]
"Author June Manning Thomas offers an intimate history of her experiences in Orangeburg, South Carolina during the 1960s. Thomas was among the plaintiffs in the court case Adams v. School Dist. No. 5, Orangeburg County (1964) and as a result was part of the first group of African American students to attend racially integrated public schools in Orangeburg. Thomas discusses her experiences with a sense of emotion and intimacy that helps readers to better comprehend the complexity of this moment. An academic by training, having received a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning and holding a distinguished professorship at the University of Michigan, Thomas overlays her own memories with archival research and secondary literature. This results in a historically minded memoir that deftly weaves broad historical context with a keen sense of personal experience. Thomas again brings a unique insight that builds upon the position of her family in the struggle for desegregation. Thomas' father was H.V. Manning, who served as president of Claflin University (1956-1984). This gave Thomas a unique position from which to view events in South Carolina, and especially in Orangeburg. Even in the sections of the manuscript that are more focused on historical framing, Thomas suffuses the text with her personal experiences and insights. Chapter 2, for instance, discusses her father's role in working for greater educational access for African Americans students. Chapter 5 then talks about economic boycotts in Orangeburg as a mechanism of protest. It also offers a first-hand account of the Orangeburg Movement. The heart of the book, however, comes in chapters 7-9, where Thomas discusses her own experiences as one of the first generation of African American students in South Carolina to attend desegregated schools, first in Orangeburg and then at Furman University in Greenville. Thomas' narrative is rich and complex. It highlights the ambiguities and internal tensions of the struggle for school desegregation and this period of South Carolina's history more generally"--
Electronic resource

The journal of Charlotte Forten : a free Negro in the slave era

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Forten, Charlotte L.
1981, c1953.
Book

The republic of imagination : America in three books

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Nafisi, Azar.
2014.
"A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don't care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others-she invites us to join her as citizens of her 'Republic of Imagination,' a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream"--
Book

Growing minds : on becoming a teacher

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Kohl, Herbert R.
c1984.
1st ed.
Book

Struggling to learn : an intimate history of school desegregation in South Carolina

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Bill Nye : science guy / [DVD]

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

[2018]
Bill Nye is a man on a mission, to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking across the world. With intimate and exclusive access, as well as plenty of wonder and whimsy, this behind the scenes portrait of Nye follows him as he takes off his Science Guy lab coat and takes on those who deny climate change, evolution, and a science-based world view.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD]

Loved and wanted : a memoir of choice, children, and womanhood

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Parravani, Christa,
2020.
First edition.
"A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes for their children's lives"--
Book

The making of an adult educator : an autobiographical journey

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Knowles, Malcolm S.
c1989.
1st ed.
Book

Contemplating dis/ability in schools and society

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Connor, David J.,
[2018]
"This book chronicles the life of an inclusive educator through eight different stages of his career, from classroom teacher to college professor. Analysis of this rich narrative reveals complexities of how both the field of education's knowledge base and existing educational systems impact lives of children, teachers, and researchers"--
Electronic resource

A deaf child listened : Thomas Gallaudet, pioneer in American education

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Neimark, Anne E.
1983.
A biography of a man whose pioneering efforts in educating deaf children in the early part of the nineteenth century are still being felt today.
Book

Malcolm Shepherd Knowles : a history of his thought

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Henry, George.
©2011.
Electronic resource

An academic life : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Gray, Hanna Holborn,
[2018]
"A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taught at some of the world's most prestigious universities. She was the first woman to serve as provost of Yale. In 1978, she became the first woman president of a major research university when she was appointed to lead the University of Chicago, a position she held for fifteen years. In 1991, Gray was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to education. An Academic Life is a candid self-portrait by one of academia's most respected trailblazers. Gray describes what it was like to grow up as a child of refugee parents, and reflects on the changing status of women in the academic world. She discusses the migration of intellectuals from Nazi-held Europe and the transformative role these exiles played in American higher education--and how the émigré experience in America transformed their own lives and work. She sheds light on the character of university communities, how they are structured and administered, and the balance they seek between tradition and innovation, teaching and research, and undergraduate and professional learning. An Academic Life speaks to the fundamental issues of purpose, academic freedom, and governance that arise time and again in higher education and that pose sharp challenges to the independence and scholarly integrity of each new generation."--
Electronic resource

The life and times of T.H. Gallaudet

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Sayers, Edna Edith,
[2018]
Book

I have something to tell you : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Buttigieg, Chasten,
2020.
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
"A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America's future. Throughout the past year, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage, having left his classroom in South Bend, Indiana, to travel cross-country in support of his husband, former mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Pete's groundbreaking presidential campaign. Through Chasten's joyful, witty social media posts, the public gained a behind-the-scenes look at his life with Pete on the trail--moments that might have ranged from the mundane to the surprising, but that were always heartfelt. Chasten has overcome a multitude of obstacles to get here. In this moving, uplifting memoir, he recounts his journey to finding acceptance as a gay man. He recalls his upbringing in rural Michigan, where he knew he was different, where indeed he felt different from his father and brothers. He recounts his coming out and how he's healed from revealing his secret to his family, friends, community, and the world. And he tells the story of meeting his boyfriend, whom he would marry and who would eventually become a major Democratic leader. With unflinching honesty, unflappable courage, and great warmth, Chasten Buttigieg relays his experience of growing up in America and embracing his true self, while inspiring others to do the same."--provided by publisher.
Book

Stifled laughter : one woman's story about fighting censorship

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Johnson, Claudia
c1994.
Book

Beyond the miracle worker : the remarkable life of Anne Sullivan Macy and her extraordinary friendship with Helen Keller

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Nielsen, Kim E.
c2009.
Electronic resource

Get your elbow off the horn : stories through the years

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Gannon, Jack R.,
2020.
"A collection of short stories about Jack Gannon's life and family. Many of the stories also detail and recount Jack's experiences as a student, teacher, and coach at schools for the deaf"--
Electronic resource

Seeing language in sign : the work of William C. Stokoe

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Maher, Jane,
1996.
In 1995 William C. Stokoe arrived at Gallaudet College (later Gallaudet University) to teach English, specifically Chaucer. His own education in Old and Middle English, however, triggered a disparate response within him when he was first exposed to deaf people signing. While most of his colleagues conformed to current conventional theory and dismissed signing as mere mimicry of speech, Stokoe saw in it elements of a distinctive language all its own. Seeing Language in Sign traces the process that Stokoe followed to prove scientifically and unequivocally that American Sign Language (ASL) met the full criteria of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and use of language - to be classified a fully developed language. This perceptive account dramatically captures the struggle Stokoe faced in persuading the establishment of the truth of his discovery. Other faculty members ridiculed or reviled him, and many deaf members of the Gallaudet community laughed at his efforts. Seeing Language in Sign rewards the reader with a rich portrayal of an undaunted advocate who, like a latter-day Galileo, pursued his vision of doggedly regardless of relentless antagonism. He established the Linguistics Research Laboratory, then founded the journal Sign Language Studies to sustain an unpopular dialogue until the tide changed. His ultimate vindication corresponded with the recognition of the glorious culture and community that revolves around Deaf people and their language, American Sign Language.
Book

The double life of Paul de Man

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Barish, Evelyn,
[2014]
First Edition.
Describes the life of the Yale University professor behind the deconstruction movement, who at the time of his death was one of the most influential literary critics in America but was later revealed to be a Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite.
Book

Hans Hofmann

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Goodman, Cynthia.
c1986.
Book

Our last term : a teacher's diary

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Natkins, Lucille G.,
c1986.
Book

Surrendering Oz : a life in essays

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Friedman, Bonnie,
2014.
First edition.
Electronic resource

Teaching in tough times : encouragement for today's teacher

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Nichols, Judy
c1997.
Book

Gallaudet, friend of the deaf

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Degering, Etta.
1987, c1964.
A biography of Thomas H. Gallaudet, who believed the deaf deserved the availability of a high school and college education and set about making it a reality.
Book

Conversations with great teachers

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Smoot, Bill.
©2010.
Learning from the best, in and outside of the classroom.
Electronic resource

Coming to narrative : a personal history of paradigm change in the human sciences

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Bochner, Arthur P.,
[2014]
"Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences--especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory--have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes of inquiry. He outlines the theoretical contributions of such luminaries as Bateson, Laing, Goffman, Henry, Gergen, and Richardson in this transformation. Using diverse forms of narration, Bochner seamlessly layers theory and story, interweaving his professional and personal life with the social and historical contexts in which they developed"--
Electronic resource

Tisha : the story of a young teacher in the Alaska wilderness

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Purdy, Anne,
2018.
2018 Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition.
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with many of the townspeople, but is soon ostracized when she not only befriends the local Indians but also falls in love with one.
Book

Into woods : essays

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Roorbach, Bill.
c2002.
Book

Teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy : a tribute by the foster-child of her mind

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Keller, Helen,
1956, c1955.
Book

Why history matters : life and thought

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lerner, Gerda,
1997.
Book

Learning to fly : trapeze--reflections on fear, trust, and the joy of letting go

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Keen, Sam.
©1999.
1st ed.
A book on the art of the flying trapeze and the spiritual well-being it generates. The author took up the sport at the age of 61 and teaches it to recovering drug addicts, offering them more healthy kicks.
Book

James M. Landis, dean of the regulators

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Ritchie, Donald A.,
1980.
Book

The teaching legacy of O.B. Hardison, Jr. : with selected writings on education

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Brestensky, Dennis F.
c2002.
Book

Improvising out loud : my life teaching Hollywood how to act

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Corey, Jeff,
[2017]
Book

Silvio Scionti : remembering a master pianist and teacher

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Guerry, Jack,
©1991.
1st ed.
Electronic resource

Writing home : a literacy autobiography

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Goldblatt, Eli.
©2012.
In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years of his life-in the classroom but mostly outside it. Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography traces Goldblatt's search for home and his growing recognition that only through his writing life can he fully contextualize the world he inhabits. Goldblatt connects his educational journey as a poet and a teacher to his conception of literacy, and assesses his intellectual, emotional, and political develop.
Electronic resource

From the cast-iron shore : in lifelong pursuit of liberal learning

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Oakley, Francis,
[2019]
Electronic resource

Sites : a third memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Fowlie, Wallace,
1987.
Book

Bootstraps : from an American academic of color

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Villanueva, Victor,
c1993.
Book

Karl Llewellyn and the realist movement

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Twining, William L.
[1973]
Book

Off mike : a memoir of talk radio and literary life

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Krasny, Michael,
c2008.
Book

Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Preston, Ashley Robertson,
[2023]
"Broadening the familiar view of Mary McLeod Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, this book highlights Bethune's global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora"--
Book

The Barney years

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Rucker, John.
c1992.
Book

Reflections : my life in the deaf and hearing worlds

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Christiansen, John B.
2010.
Book

In the eye of the typhoon

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lo, Ruth Earnshaw.
c1980.
1st ed.
Book

Andrew D. White, educator, historian, diplomat

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Altschuler, Glenn C.
1979.
Book

American boy : a life inspired by American ideals : an autobiography

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Soremekun, Fola,
[2018]
This is an exhilarating autobiography of a dreamer, adventurer, historian, and a pioneer. In a captivating narrative that holds the reader's attention throughout, Professor Soremekun weaves emotional, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous stories of his life in the context of his beloved family, his unshakeable faith, and major historical world events - all of which greatly influenced him. The theme that drives and sustains him is truly the American spirit, in which he steeped himself at a young age. That and an innate drive early on in life earned him the nickname "American Boy" by his Nigerian peers. The culmination of his dreams was his journey, by sea, to the United States for school in 1956 and a half-century teaching career that periodically took him back to Africa (Nigeria and Zambia) and to traverse other continents and countries around the globe. After retiring in 2012 from Citrus College in California, Professor Soremekun returned to his native Nigeria where he currently lives out his dream of training a new generation inspired by the same ideals.--Publisher's description.
Book

Lives on the boundary : the struggles and achievements of America's underprepared

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Rose, Mike.
c1989.
Book

Manuel Barrueco [videorecording] : a gift and a life

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

c2005.
A biographical documentary portrait; includes extensive footage of Barrueco performing and teaching, and interviews with Plácido Domingo, David Russell, Sérgio and Odair Assad, David Tanenbaum, Roberto Sierra, Eliot Fisk, Andy Summers, Al Di Meola, and others. Features performances from Barrueco's 2004 solo recital in Peabody's Friedberg Hall, a 1994 concert in Antwerp, Belgium, and a 2002 performance with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia in La Coruña, Spain. "In intimate and candid interviews, Manuel traces his journey from Santiago de Cuba and his first public performance at the age of eleven to his debut recital at Carnegie Hall and his long and distinguished international recording and concert career; Maestro Barrueco performs music by Bach, Scarlatti, Albéniz, Granados, Villa-Lobos, Lecuona, Rodrigo, Sierra, Assad, Corea, Di Meola, and Lennon/McCartney"--Container.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [videorecording] :

Helen and teacher : the story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lash, Joseph P.,
c1980.
Book

In the eye of the typhoon

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lo, Ruth Earnshaw.
c1980.
1st ed.
Book

My life of language : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Ogden, Paul W.,
2017.
Paul W. Ogden has dedicated his life to educating young deaf and hard of hearing people and raising awareness of what it means to be deaf in a hearing world. He has taught and mentored a generation of teachers, and his classic volume, The Silent Garden, has served as a guide for parents and educators for over thirty years. Now he tells his personal story of challenges faced and lessons learned, revealing that the critical, guiding factors for him have always been language and successful communication.
Book

Teachers, straight talk from the trenches

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Dichter, Susan.
c1989.
Book

Hazeltine, the professor

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Wheeler, Harold Alden,
1978.
Book

Andrew D. White, educator, historian, diplomat

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Altschuler, Glenn C.
1979.
Electronic resource

Calling : essays on teaching in the mother tongue

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Griffin, Gail B.
c1992.
Book

No small lives : handbook of North American early women adult educators, 1925-1950

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Imel, Susan,
©2015.
Regular print

Teachers' reading/teachers' lives

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Rummel, Mary Kay.
c1997.
Book

Force through delicacy : the life and art of Charles H. Woodbury, N.A. (1864-1940)

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Young, George M.
1998.
Renowned marine artist Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940) began his now famous Ogunquit, Maine, art school in 1898, the anniversary of which this book celebrates. Woodbury's Ogunquit shore scenes earned him a reputation as the "heir" of Winslow Homer, and he became the foremost of his generation at painting the interaction of elemental forces where land meets sea. By age 30, he was recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as a leading American artist of the day. Woodbury's Ogunquit school was an immediate success, attracting 60 to 100 students each summer, and established the coastal community as a center for fine art. On land acquired from the Woodbury family is the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. This volume is published in connection with a summer of 1998 exhibit at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art celebrating the 100th anniversary of Woodbury's first class in Ogunquit. Illustrations include 10 full color Woodbury paintings, and a number of etchings and sketches.
Book

Helen and teacher : the story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lash, Joseph P.,
[1997]
Radcliffe biography series
Book

Sorrow is the only faithful one : the life of Owen Dodson

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hatch, James Vernon,
c1993.
Book

Lives on the boundary : a moving account of the struggles and achievements of America's educationally unprepared

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Rose, Mike.
1990, c1989.
Book

Lee Strasberg, the imperfect genius of the Actors Studio

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Adams, Cindy Heller.
1980.
1st ed.
Book

Journal of rehearsals : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Fowlie, Wallace,
1977.
Book

Before we get started : a practical memoir of the writer's life

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lott, Bret.
c2005.
1st ed.
Book

Black philosopher, white academy : the career of William Fontaine

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Kuklick, Bruce,
©2008.
At a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was the only black member of the Penn faculty. Bruce Kuklick sheds light on Fontaine's career as a black scholar as well as on the discipline of philosophy and academic life at mid-century.
Electronic resource

Jack Grout : a legacy in golf : pioneer tour pro and teacher to Jack Nicklaus

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Grout, Dick.
©2012.
The author presents the life story of Jack Grout, from his childhood in middle-class Oklahoma, to his PGA tournaments playing against Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead and Gene Sarazen, to his role as golf teacher to Raymond Floyd, David Graham, Lanny Wadkins, and, for 39 years, to Jack Nicklaus.
Electronic resource

The inspirational untold stories of secondary mathematics teachers

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[2020]
"Personal story telling is a powerful and interesting medium through which one can share experiences, insights, successes, and difficulties in meaningful contexts. Teaching in general, and mathematics teaching in particular, is much more than what meets the eye. Most people have only experienced teaching from the vantage point of a student and have impressions of teachers and teaching that are simplistic and usually totally incorrect. The lives of mathematics teachers are varied and contrary to what one might think they are. The journeys of exemplary in-service teachers are not linear; there are many bends, potholes, and detours through which they have navigated. The "road conditions" of teaching are fodder for the 12 untold stories collected in this volume, whose authors graduated from a special four-year undergraduate mathematics teacher preparation program, containing innovative components, many of which are revealed through the experiences described in their stories. The range of narratives vary in every possible way, from the reasons they became mathematics teachers, to the number of years teaching, to the experiences encountered while teaching, to the different roles they have assumed throughout their careers. Nevertheless, one strand permeates all of the stories--their passion for what they do and their ability to reflect on early college experiences that contribute to their performance. These inspiring narratives will shed light on the developmental processes of mathematics teachers, what it means to teach mathematics, and the components of a secondary mathematics teacher preparation program that can contribute to their expertise"--
Electronic resource

Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist

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Heumann, Judith E.,
[2020]
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society.
Book

Becoming southern writers : essays in honor of Charles Joyner

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

[2016]
Southern writers, historians, and artists celebrate the life and career of a beloved mentor, friend, and colleague.
Electronic resource

The unconscious actor : out of control, in full command : the art of performance in acting and in life

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hickman, Darryl.
c2007.
1st ed.
Book

One way back : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Ford, Christine Blasey,
2024.
First edition.
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court; this is the true behind-the-scenes story of that testimony.
Book

A dream of passion : the development of the method

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Strasberg, Lee.
c1987.
1st ed.
Book

Jews in the American academy, 1900-1940 : the dynamics of intellectual assimilation

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Klingenstein, Susanne,
©1991.
Electronic resource

Mollie is three : growing up in school

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Paley, Vivian Gussin,
1986.
Book

Ardent spirits : leaving home, coming back

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Price, Reynolds,
2009.
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Recounts the author's observations of post-World War II Great Britain, his Oxford University education, and his encounters with such figures as J.R.R. Tolkien, W.H. Auden, and Stephen Spender.
Book

Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Heumann, Judith E.
[2020]
"Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school, to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license because of her paralysis and becoming the first wheelchair rider to receive a teacher's license, to leading the Section 504 sit-in, which led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judy has set precedents that improved rights for disabled people. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Being Heumann is a story of one woman's lifelong battle - from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - to make real a world in which we all belong."--provided by publisher.
Regular print

Feminist accused of sexual harassment

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Gallop, Jane,
1997.
Book

She's not there : a life in two genders

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Boylan, Jennifer Finney,
c2013.
2nd pbk. ed.
Book

Inheritance : an autobiography of whiteness

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Woods, Baynard,
2022.
First edition.
"In this gripping and perceptive memoir, Woods takes us along on his journey to understand how race has impacted his life. Unflinching and uninhibited, Inheritance explores what it means to reckon with whiteness in America today and what it might mean to begin to repair the past"--
Book

A lifetime of labor : the autobiography of Alice H. Cook

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Cook, Alice H.,
1998.
1st ed.
A pioneer in union organizing, worker education, and equal rights for working women, Cook's work took her across the country and around the world, across racial, ethnic, national, gender, and class lines, and across obstacles she refused to accept as impassable. In A Lifetime of Labor, Cook recounts a life of activism, teaching, and research that spanned nearly a century and intersected with progressive movements at home and abroad.
Book

The sword of imagination : memoirs of a half-century of literary conflict

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Kirk, Russell.
c1995.
Book

Teachers' reading/teachers' lives

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Rummel, Mary Kay.
©1997.
Electronic resource

Feminist science education

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Calabrese Barton, Angela.
c1998.
Book

Political woman : the big little life of Jeane Kirkpatrick

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Collier, Peter,
2012.
This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine and fighting the Cold War to a victorious conclusion. Political Woman traces the complex interlock between Kirkpatrick's personal and professional lives using her as yet unarchived private papers and extensive interviews with her and her family and with dozens of friends and associates. The portrait that emerges, filled with character and anecdot.
Electronic resource

Signs of life : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Taylor, Natalie
c2011.
1st ed.
Book

Chasing hellhounds : a teacher learns from his students

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hoffman, Marvin,
1996.
1st ed.
Book

A room with a different view : first through third graders build community and create curriculum

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Ostrow, Jill.
c1995.
Book

Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Heumann, Judith E.,
[2019]
Electronic resource

Dale Carnegie : the man who influenced millions

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Kemp, Giles.
c1989.
1st ed.
Book

The imprisoned guest : Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the original deaf-blind girl

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Gitter, Elisabeth,
2001.
1st ed.
Book

Being Heumann

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Heumann, Judith E.
[2020]
Unabridged
"A disability rights activist tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school to rolling her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 sit-in, Judy has set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy helped to successfully pressure the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled people's rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Being Heumann is a story of one woman's lifelong battle to make real a world in which we all belong." -- provided by publisher.
CD

Late-life love : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Gubar, Susan,
[2019]
First edition.
"'Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging.'-- Stephen Greenblatt. On Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles her into an appreciation of their luck. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, Susan considers how older lovers differ from their youthful counterparts--and from ageist stereotypes. When her husband encounters age-related disabilities, Susan procrastinates over moving from their burdensome house in the country to a more manageable town apartment by searching out literature on the longevity of desire by authors from Ovid and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson. During subsequent months of care-giving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, and apartment-hunting, Susan studies the obstacles many older couples overcome and marvels at the passion that buoys her own relationship. A memoir proving that love and desire have no expiration date, Late-Life Love is a resounding retort to negative valuations of old age and a celebration of second chances"--
Book

Writing about your life : a journey into the past

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Zinsser, William Knowlton.
©2004.
"This book by William Zinsser, author of the classic guide On Writing Well, tells you how to write about the people and places and events in your life that have been important to you - whether you're writing a memoir, a family history or just a recollection of experiences you'd like to preserve or more fully understand. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing and often inspiring moments in his long and unusually varied life as a writer, editor, teacher and traveler."
Book

The alchemy of race and rights

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Williams, Patricia J.,
1991.
Book

From prayer to pragmatism : a biography of John L. Childs

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Straddling worlds : the Jewish-American journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Harper, Steven J.,
2007.
Book

Mary McLeod Bethune : voice of black hope

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Meltzer, Milton,
1987.
Women of our time
Book

She's not there : a life in two genders

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Boylan, Jennifer Finney,
2003.
1st ed.
A memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor.
Book

China watcher : confessions of a Peking Tom

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Baum, Richard,
©2010.
Richard Baum shares anecdotes from his professional life as a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, discussing his experiences as a China watcher over the course of forty years.
Electronic resource

And also teach them to read = Y, tambien, enséñeles a leer

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hirshon, Sheryl L.
c1983.
Book

The untouched minutes

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Morrill, Donald,
©2004.
"In February 2001, on what started out as a typical Sunday afternoon, Donald Morrill and his wife Lisa Birnbaum became the victims of a home invasion and found themselves faced with the specter of ultimate contingency. In The Untouched Minutes, Morrill recounts and examines the events of that day and its aftermath as well as the circumstances surrounding the murders of Dartmouth professors Half and Suzanne Zantop, which occurred the same week." "Set against the unfolding drama of post-9/11 America, The Untouched Minutes explores how violence and the threat of violence color and recast one's assumptions and can plot the course of people facing the unknown, the unknowable, the irredeemable. Morrill presents a memorable portrait of what it means to take back the life that, finally, wasn't taken, and in the process he offers a powerful meditation on terror and security, home and travel, art, race, luck, and our individual places in the wider world."--BOOK JACKET.
Electronic resource

My body is a book of rules

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Washuta, Elissa.
[2014]
First edition.
Book

Just beneath my skin : autobiography and self-discovery

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Foster, Patricia,
c2004.
Book

A history of physical education and sports in the U.S.A.

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lee, Mabel,
c1983.
Book

Mary McLeod Bethune : woman of courage

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

McKissack, Pat,
2013.
"Read about Mary McLeod Bethune's life. Discover how she started a school, and worked in the White House"--Provided by publisher.
Book

Crossing the line : a year in the land of apartheid

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Finnegan, William.
c1986.
1st ed.
Book

Nothing gold can stay : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Rural women teachers in the United States : a sourcebook

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Wyman, Andrea.
1997.
Book

A feminist legacy : the rhetoric and pedagogy of Gertrude Buck

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Bordelon, Suzanne,
c2007.
Book

A child went forth : reflective teaching with young readers and writers

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Carr, Janine Chappell.
1999.
Book

Invitations to the world : teaching and writing for young

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Peck, Richard,
c2002.
Book

I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You : My Life and Pastimes.

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

McInerny, Ralph.
2011.
Electronic resource

The alchemy of race and rights

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Williams, Patricia J.,
1991.
Diary of a law professor.
Regular print

Learning and hatred for meaning

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Letiche, Hugo K.,
1984.
This study poses the problems of theoretical and philosophical pedagogy in the practice of teaching. The research goal was to improve my teaching. A concrete experience of undergraduate lecturing is the subject. This unconventional New Paradigm research strives for an immediacy of contact between text and practice. How does a beginning lecturer grapple with this job? What is it like to establish oneself as a teacher? The emphasis is upon the experience of teaching, of the school, and what is expected of one as instructor.
Electronic resource

Facing it : epiphany and apocalypse in the new nature

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.
2014.
First edition.
Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M. Jimmie Killingsworth seeks alternative images and episodes to invoke presence without crippling the hope for survival and sustenance in places and communities of value. In deft, highly accessible prose, Killingsworth takes the reader through a Cold-War childhood, an adolescence colored by anti-war and ecological activism, and an adulthood darkened by terrorism.
Electronic resource

The girl who buried her dreams in a can

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Trent, Tererai,
[2015]
"The true story of a little girl who made an impossible dream achievable" --
Book

Dancing on water : a life in ballet, from the Kirov to the ABT

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Tchernichova, Elena.
c2013.
Book

Ecotone : wayfaring on the margins

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Writing home : a literacy autobiography

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Goldblatt, Eli.
c2012.
Book

The rise and fall of English : reconstructing English as a discipline

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Scholes, Robert E.
c1998.
Book

Teacher with a heart : reflections on Leonard Covello and community

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Perrone, Vito.
c1998.
Book

Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement.

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Twining, William.
2012.
2nd ed.
An intellectual biography of Karl Llewellyn, originally published in 1973. Includes a preface by Frederick Schauer and an afterword by William Twining.
Electronic resource

Teaching from the heart and soul : the Robert F. Panara story

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lang, Harry G.
2007.
Book

On a wave

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Ziolkowski, Thad,
c2002.
"A disenchanted, unemployed English professor decides one day on a whim - partly playful, partly desperate - to sneak off from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline. How did he become this semidepressed, chain-smoking, aimless man, when for a few shining years of his childhood he was invincible?" "The boy is Thad Ziolkowski, who grows up amid the late '60s counterculture in coastal Florida. After his parents' divorce, nine-year-old Thad escapes from his difficult family - notably a brooding and explosive new stepfather - by heading for the thrilling, unchartered waters of the local beach. There, buoyed by the primal force and tribal inclusion of surfing, he pours his adolescent energy into mastering the almost mystical intricacies of the waves. In the bosom of the surf the boy is able to stay offshore for years, until his life is upended once again, this time by tragedy; depositing him at a crossroads between a life in the waves and coming back to land."--BOOK JACKET.
Book

The rise and fall of English : reconstructing English as a discipline

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Making the words stand still

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lyman, Donald E.
1986.
Book

An unquiet mind

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Jamison, Kay R.
1996, c1995.
1st Vintage Books ed.
Book

A room for learning : the making of a school in Vermont

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Birdsey, Tal.
2009.
1st ed.
In this stirring account of a teacher and his twelve students tucked away in the mountains of Vermont, educator Tal Birdsey fervently documents the founding year of his small junior high school with wit and humility. Part memoir, part meditation on the power of art and poetry, and part criticism of standardized education, A Room for Learning evokes a spirit of change, allowing adolescents a hand in their education. With no set curriculum and limited resources, the students delve deep into the poetry of Auden and Bukowski, the music of Coltrane, the emotional landscape of Elie Weisel's Night. Isolated from mainstream culture and constantly on the brink of apathy, this diverse group of kids created a literary community that celebrated learning, and demon strated how a classroom can be place of transformative power.
Book

The Yale biographical dictionary of American law

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

c2009.
Book

Jacob Neusner : an American Jewish iconoclast

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hughes, Aaron W.,
[2016]
"Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular project only conducted by--and of interest to--religious adherents to one which now flourishes in the secular setting of the university. He is also one of the most colorful, creative, and difficult figures in the American academy. But even those who disagree with Neusner's academic approach to ancient rabbinic texts have to engage with his pioneering methods. In this comprehensive biography, Aaron Hughes shows Neusner to be much more than a scholar of rabbinics. He is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and was an outspoken political figure during the height of the cultural wars of the 1980s. Neusner's life reflects the story of what happened as Jews migrated to the suburbs in the late 1940s, daring to imagine new lives for themselves as they successfully integrated into the fabric of American society. It is also the story of how American Jews tried to make sense of the world in the aftermath of the extermination of European Jewry and the subsequent creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and how they sought to define what it meant to be an American Jew. Unlike other great American Jewish thinkers, Neusner was born in the U.S., and his Judaism was informed by an American ethos. His Judaism is open, informed by and informing the world. It is an American Judaism, one that has enabled American Jews--the freest in history--to be fully American and fully Jewish."--Publisher's description.
Electronic resource

The art of memory : an ethnographer's journey

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Varese, Stefano,
[2020]
"Combining personal and family recollections with incisive accounts of academic, political, and institutional experiences, The Art of Memory offers a remarkable account of the life of one of the foremost Latin American ethnographers and a leading expert in Indigenous cultures, peoples, and cosmologies. Varese narrates the story of his journey from Italy to Peru, his formative years as an anthropologist and the critical work he did with Amazonian communities in the 1970s, his transformation into an activist scholar, his move to Mexico and his long-standing commitment with the peoples of Oaxaca, and his life as an academic in the United States ... combines the personal, the political, and the transnational to produce a vivid account of a unique and fulfilling journey"--
Electronic resource

A feminist legacy : the rhetoric and pedagogy of Gertrude Buck

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

The scarlet professor : Newton Arvin, a literary life shattered by scandal

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Werth, Barry.
2002, c2001.
First Anchor Books ed.
Book

The scarlet professor : Newton Arvin, a literary life shattered by scandal

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Werth, Barry.
c2001.
1st ed.
Book

Correctional

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Shankar, Ravi,
[2021]
"The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his promotion to full professor was finalized. During his ninety-day pretrial confinement at the Hartford Correctional Center -- a level 4, high-security urban jail in Connecticut -- he met men who shared harrowing and heart-felt stories. The experience taught him about the persistence of structural racism, the limitations of mass media, and the pervasive traumas of twenty-first-century daily life. Shankar's bold and complex self-portrait -- and portrait of America -- challenges us to rethink our complicity in the criminal justice system and mental health policies that perpetuate inequity and harm. Correctional dives into the inner workings of his mind and heart, framing his unexpected encounters with law and order through the lenses of race, class, privilege, and his bicultural upbringing as the first and only son of South Indian immigrants. Vignettes from his early life set the scene for his spectacular fall and subsequent struggle to come to terms with his own demons. Many of them, it turns out, are also our own." --
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I alone have escaped to tell you : my life and pastimes

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

McInerny, Ralph M.
c2006.
"With I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You, Ralph McInerny describes his childhood in Minnesota; his grammar school and seminary education, his decision to leave the path toward ordination; his marriage to his beloved Connie and their active family life and travels; and his life as a fiction writer. We learn of his career as a Catholic professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, his views on the Catholic Church, his experiences as an editor and publisher of Catholic magazines and reviews, his involvement with the International Catholic University, and his thoughts on other Catholic writers. Part homage to his academic home for the last half century and part appreciation of the many significant friendships he has fostered over his life, McInerny's reminiscences beautifully convey his lively interest in the world and his gift for friendship and collegiality."--BOOK JACKET.
Book

English language, English literature : the creation of an academic discipline

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

McMurtry, Jo,
1985.
Book

Jacob Neusner : an American Jewish iconoclast

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Diary of a citizen scientist : chasing tiger beetles and other new ways of engaging the world

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Russell, Sharman Apt
2014.
In the exploding world of citizen science, hundreds of thousands of volunteers are monitoring climate change, tracking bird migration, and following their bliss counting stardust for NASA or excavating mastodons. The sheer number of citizen scientists, combined with new technology, has begun to shape how research is conducted. Non-professionals become acknowledged experts: dentists turn into astronomers and accountants into botanists. Diary of a Citizen Scientist is a timely exploration of this phenomenon, told through the lens of nature writer Sharman Apt Russell's yearlong study of a little-known species, the Western red-bellied tiger beetle. In a voice both humorous and lyrical, Russell recounts her persistent and joyful tracking of an insect she calls "charismatic," "elegant," and "fierce." Patrolling the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, collector's net in hand, she negotiates the realities of climate change even as she celebrates the beauty of a still-wild and rural landscape.
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A body, undone : living on after great pain

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Crosby, Christina,
[2016]
Shortly after her 50th birthday in 2003, Crosby was in a bicycle accident that paralyzed her, and here shares her experience of living her new life.
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Dancing with ghosts : a critical biography of Arturo Islas

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Aldama, Frederick Luis,
©2005.
This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938-1991) brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. The book considers both the larger questions of Islas's life--his sexuality, racial identification, and political personality--and the events of his everyday existence, from his childhood in the borderlands of El Paso to his adulthood in San Francisco and at Stanford University. Aldama describes Islas's struggle with polio as a child, his near-death experience and ileostomy as a thirty-year-old beginning to explore his queer sexuality in San Francisco in the 1970s, and his fatal struggle with AIDS in the late 1980s. He also explores Islas's coming into the craft of poetry and fiction--his extraordinary struggle to publish his novels, as well as his pivotal role in paving the way for a new generation of Chicano/a scholars and writers. --From publisher description.
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Forever fat : essays by the Godfather

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Dancing on water : a life in ballet, from the Kirov to the ABT

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Self-help Messiah : Dale Carnegie and success in modern America

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Watts, Steven,
[2013]
Before Stephen Covey, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm Gladwell there was Dale Carnegie. His book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, became a best seller worldwide, and Life magazine named him one of "the most important Americans of the twentieth century." This is the first full-scale biography of this influential figure. Dale Carnegie was born in rural Missouri, his father a poor farmer, his mother a successful preacher. To make ends meet he tried his hand at various sales jobs, and his failure to convince his customers to buy what he had to offer eventually became the fuel behind his future glory. Carnegie quickly figured out that something was amiss in American education and in the ways businesspeople related to each other. What he discovered was as simple as it was profound: Understanding people's needs and desires is paramount in any successful enterprise. Carnegie conceived his book to help people learn to relate to one another and enrich their lives through effective communication. His success was extraordinary, so hungry was 1920s America for a little psychological insight that was easy to apply to everyday affairs. Self-help Messiah tells the story of Carnegie's personal journey and how it gave rise to the movement of self-help and personal reinvention.
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Taught by America : a story of struggle and hope in Compton

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Sentilles, Sarah.
©2005.
"After graduating from Yale with a degree in literature, Sarah Sentilles, a Spanish-speaking twenty-two-year-old with almost no teaching experience, joined Teach for America and was assigned to a rundown elementary school in Compton, California - one of the toughest cities in America. In charge of thirty-six first graders in a classroom without books, Sentilles experienced her own kind of education. Taught by America is the story of the children Sentilles taught - but more than that, it's the story of one woman's change of heart and life."
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Dancing with ghosts : a critical biography of Arturo Islas

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Aldama, Frederick Luis,
c2005.
This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938-1991) brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. Gracefully written and deeply researched, Dancing with Ghosts considers both the larger questions of Islas's life-his sexuality, racial identification, and political personality-and the events of his everyday existence, from his childhood in the borderlands of El Paso to his adulthood in San Francisco and at Stanford University. Frederick Aldama portrays the many facets of Islas's engaging and often contradictory.
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She was the first! : the trailblazing life of Shirley Chisholm

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Russell-Brown, Katheryn,
2020.
First edition.
"A picture biography of educator and politician Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 was the first Black woman elected to Congress and in 1972 was the first Black candidate from a major political party (the Democratic party) to run for the United States presidency. An afterword with additional information, photographs, and source lists are included"--
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Late-life love : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Gubar, Susan,
2019.
Large print edition.
"On Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles her into an appreciation of their luck. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, Susan considers how older lovers differ from their youthful counterparts--and from ageist stereotypes. When her husband encounters age-related disabilities, Susan procrastinates over moving from their burdensome house in the country to a more manageable town apartment by searching out literature on the longevity of desire by authors from Ovid and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson. During subsequent months of care-giving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, and apartment-hunting, Susan studies the obstacles many older couples overcome and marvels at the passion that buoys her own relationship. A memoir proving that love and desire have no expiration date, Late-Life Love is a resounding retort to negative valuations of old age and a celebration of second chances"--
Large print

Dancing with ghosts : a critical biography of Arturo Islas

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

V.L. Parrington : through the avenue of art

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hall, H. Lark,
c1994.
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Everywhere home : a life in essays

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Johnson, Fenton,
[2017]
"Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson's wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way, he investigates questions large and small: What's the relationship between artists and museums, illuminated in a New Guinean display of shrunken heads? What's the difference between empiricism and intuition? The collection draws together essays that originally appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, All Things Considered and elsewhere, along with new work. Johnson reports from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic, from Burning Man, from monasteries near and far. His subject matter ranges from Oscar Wilde to censorship in journalism to Kentucky basketball. Everywhere Home is the latest title in Sarabande's Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. Fenton Johnson is the author of the novels The Man Who Loved Birds, Scissors, Paper, Rock, and Crossing the River, and the nonfiction books Keeping Faith and Geography of the Heart. Johnson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He writes regularly for Harper's, and is a professor in the creative writing programs at the University of Arizona and Spalding University"--
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Crossing the line : a year in the land of apartheid

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Finnegan, William.
c1986.
1st ed.
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Across an inland sea : writing in place from Buffalo to Berlin

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Howe, Nicholas.
©2003.
How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives.Howe begins with one of the finest descriptions ever written of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and dislocation--a place of coming and going.
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So Far, So Good.

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Salisbury, Ralph J.
2013.
Bullet-shattered glass clatters onto his baby bed; he wakes and cries out into darkness. Does he remember this? Or remember being told? Regardless, he feels it, and will feel it again, bomb bay wind buffeting his eighteen-year-old body a mile above an old volcano's jagged debris, and yet again, staring at photos of Korean orphans, huddled homeless in a blizzard after a bombing in which, at twenty-five, he'd refused an order to join. It is through such prisms of the past that Ralph Salisbury's life unfolds, a life that, eighty years in the making, is also the life of the twentieth century. W.
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The cliff walk : a memoir of a job lost and a life found

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Snyder, Don J.
c1997.
1st ed.
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Adventures with a Texas humanist

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

I walk with angels : the life and work of James Engel.

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

ZIEBELL, CARL R.
2019.
Electronic resource

Heading South to teach : the world of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1845

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Tolley, Kimberley.
[2015]
Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, this book explores the significance of education in transforming American society in the early national period. During this era, women often struggled to balance career ambitions with social conventions about female domesticity.
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Voice lessons : a sisters story

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Mentzel, Cara,
2017.
First edition.
"Voice Lessons is the story of one younger sister growing up in the shadow of a larger-than-life older sister--looking up to her, wondering how they were alike and how they were different and, ultimately, learning how to live her own life and speak in her own voice on her own terms."--Amazon.com.
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Teaching other people's children : literacy and learning in a bilingual classroom

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Ballenger, Cynthia.
c1999.
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The philosopher's demise : learning French

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Watson, Richard A.,
c1995.
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A body, undone : living on after great pain

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Crosby, Christina,
[2016]
Shortly after her 50th birthday in 2003, Crosby was in a bicycle accident that paralyzed her, and here shares her experience of living her new life.
Electronic resource

Shirley Chisholm : catalyst for change, 1926-2005

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Winslow, Barbara,
2014.
"A staunch proponent of breaking down racial and gender barriers, Shirley Chisholm had the esteemed privilege of being a pioneer in many aspects of her life. She was the first African American woman elected to the New York State legislature and, later, the United States House of Representatives. She also made a run for the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972. Focusing on Chisholm's lifelong advocacy for fair treatment, access to education, and equal pay for all American minority groups, this book explores the life of a remarkable woman in the context of twentieth century urban America and the tremendous social upheaval that occurred after World War II. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin, these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach, each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a women's life that is emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a "good read," featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. "--
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The priority list : a teacher's final quest to discover life's greatest lessons

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Menasche, David.
2014.
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
What truly matters in life? David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while sharing valuable life lessons. When a six-year battle with brain cancer ultimately stole David's vision, memory, mobility, and--most tragically of all--his ability to teach, he was devastated by the thought that he would no longer have the chance to impact his students' lives. But teaching is something he just couldn't quit. He turned to Facebook with an audacious plan: a journey across America--by bus, by train, by red-tipped cane--in hopes of seeing firsthand how his kids were faring in life. Had he made a difference? Within 48 hours of posting, former students in more than fifty cities replied with offers of support and shelter. Traveling more than eight thousand miles and visiting hundreds of his students, David's fearless journey explores the things we all want and need out of life, and forces us to stop and consider our own Priority List.--From publisher description.
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Backstage : stories from my life in public television

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hull, Ronald Eugene,
©2012.
Born in 1930 in "Diddlin' Dora's" establishment on the banks of Rapid Creek and carried by the Madam herself to a social worker at the Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, Ron Hull was destined from the outset to live an interesting life. And interesting it has indeed been, at the very least. A well-known and much-loved figure after six decades in television, Hull sets out in Backstage to tell his story-from playing a bellhop in a junior class play in South Dakota (and meeting his "real" mother backstage) to initiating the American Experience series for the Corporation for Public
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No return address : a memoir of displacement

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Vlasopolos, Anca,
©2000.
"This memoir follows one woman's tumultous journey from her childhood in communist Romania to her coming of age in the United States. Filled with anecdotes and incidents with family and friends in several countries on two continents, the book re-creates the experiences of new immigrants to America - especially the experience of the latest wave of newcomers from the former Socialist bloc." "The true heroine of the story is Vlasoplos's mother, an Auschwitz survivor who raised young Anca herself after the death of her husband, a Greek political dissident. This extraordinary woman's spirit, sharp intelligence, sense of humor, and flair for fashioning the appearance of opulence in the face of poverty provide some of the most arresting moments in the book. The deep attachment and strong mutual support between mother and daughter come through clearly in Vlasoplos's moving tribute."--Jacket.
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Root and branch : Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the struggle to end segregation

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

James, Rawn.
2010.
1st U.S. ed.
"The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered the milestone victory of the civil rights movement, but it was only the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign, brilliantly and relentlessly waged. 'Root and Branch' is the epic story of the two fiercely dedicated lawyers who led that fight, from county courthouses to the marble halls of the Supreme Court" --Cover, p. 2.
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Stuck in the middle with you : parenthood in three genders a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Boylan, Jennifer Finney,
c2013.
1st ed.
Filled with interviews that examine the relationships with fathers and mothers, a memoir about gender and parenting follows the author as she transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother.
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Spoken from the heart [text (large print)]

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Bush, Laura Welch,
c2010.
Large print ed.
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JLC Title 245h [text (large print)]

Senior moments : looking back, looking ahead

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Spiegelman, Willard,
[2016]
First edition.
"A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness. Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead. Spiegelman's expertly crafted book considers, with wisdom and elegance, how to be alert to the joys that brim from unexpected places even as death draws near. Senior Moments is a foray into the felicity and follies that age brings; a consideration of how and what one reads or rereads in late adulthood; the eagerness for, and disappointment in, long-awaited reunions, at which the past comes alive in the present. A clear-eyed book of memories, written in eight searching and courageously honest essays, Senior Moments is guaranteed to stimulate, stir, and restore "--
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Two lives in uncertain times : facing the challenges of the 20th century as scholars and citizens

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Iggers, Wilma,
2006.
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Women/writing/teaching

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

©1998.
This book presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers-their complex lives as writers, as instructors, as feminists, as professionals in the academy. The authors explore their complex identities as teachers: the particular configurations of their pasts, gender, class, ethnic backgrounds, personalities, and cultures that have shaped their personae as instructors of writing.
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World as family a journey of multi-rooted belongings

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Desai, Vishakha N.,
[2021]
"Vishakha N. Desai uses her life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and its urgency for our current moment. She weaves her narrative arc from growing up in a Gandhian household in Ahmedabad to arriving in the United States as a seventeen-year-old exchange student and her subsequent career as a dancer, curator, institutional leader, and teacher against the broad sweep of political and social changes in the two countries she calls home. Through her personal story, Desai reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and national affinities. Vividly conjuring the complexities and exhilaration of a life that is rooted in many places, World as Family is a vital book for everyone who aspires to connect across borders-real and perceived-and bring to fruition the ideal of a global family"--
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Taking the stand : my life in the law

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Dershowitz, Alan M.
[2013]
First edition.
Alan Dershowitz has been called the "winningest appellate criminal defense lawyer in history." He has led or been part of the defense team for such storied clients as Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mia Farrow, Jeffrey MacDonald, Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and many more. Here, for the first time, Dershowitz writes about his evolution as a lawyer--how within a few short years he changed from a C-minus student in Yeshiva High School to become the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Law School. He describes his formative years as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. He discusses the evolution of his thinking over the years as he tackles the subtleties of censorship and the limits of First Amendment law, the ongoing tension between individual freedom and national security, the evolution of civil rights, and why the abortion rights debate hasn't moved forward since Roe v. Wade. Filled with unforgettable cases and vignettes, Taking the Stand is a deeply personal account of one of the legendary legal minds of our time.--From publisher description.
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Sharing the work : what my family and career taught me about breaking through (and holding the door open for others)

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Strober, Myra H.,
[2016]
"Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her family's dinner, she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Flooded with anger, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Strober's generous memoir captures the spirit of a revolution lived fully, from her Brooklyn childhood (and her shock at age twelve when she's banished to the women's balcony atshul) to her groundbreaking Stanford seminar on women and work. Strober's interest in women and work began when she saw her mother's frustration at the limitations of her position as a secretary. Her consciousness of the unfairness of the usual distribution of household chores came when she unsuccessfully asked her husband for help with housework. Later, when a group of conservative white male professors sputtered at the idea of government-subsidized child care, Strober made the case for its economic benefits."--Provided by publisher.
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No return address : a memoir of displacement

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Vlasopolos, Anca,
©2000.
In recounting her life's journey from Romania to the United States, Vlasopolos writes movingly of the peculiar attributes of displacement in the contemporary world. Vlasopolos renders a loving portrait of her mother, an Auschwitz survivor courageously raising a young girl alone after the death of her husband, a political dissident, and finally, details their years of limbo in Brussels and Paris and settlement in Detroit, Michigan.
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Rock, ghost, willow, deer : a story of survival

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle.
©2004.
"A name creates life patterns," Allison Adelle Hedge Coke writes, "which form and shape a life; my life, like my name, must have been formed many times over then handed to me to realize." Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Hedge Coke's narrative of that realization, the award-winning poet and writer's searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off-reservation, yet deeply immersed in her Cherokee and Huron heritage. In a style at once elliptical and achingly clear, Hedge Coke describes her schizophrenic mother and the abuse that often overshadowed her childhood; the torments visited upon her, the rape and physical violence; and those she inflicted on herself, the alcohol and drug abuse. Yet she managed to survive with her dreams and her will, her sense of wonder and promise undiminished.
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Lincoln Gordon : architect of Cold War foreign policy

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Smith, Bruce L. R.,
[2015]
After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe. In this biography, Bruce L.R. Smith examines Gordon's substantial contributions to US mobilization during the Second World War, Europe's postwar economic recovery, the security framework for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and US policy in Latin America.
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Teaching in the Terrordome [electronic resource] : two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Lanier, Heather Kirn.
c2012.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource] :

Bookmarked : reading my way from Hollywood to Brooklyn

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

Fairey, Wendy W.
[2015]
"Wendy W. Fairey grew up among books. Her mother, the famous Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's last love--he died in her living room in 1940. As part of a 'College of One' education, Fitzgerald would bring Graham literary classics from Charles Dickens to William Thackeray, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. The protagonists of these books later became Fairey's intimates. Leaving her glamorous Hollywood world as a young girl, Fairey entered the English landscape of David Copperfield, whose sensibility and aspirations she intimately shared, not least because both suffered a terrible stepfather. Her many affinities with David squired her to adulthood, when she became an English professor and eventually a college dean. This memoir is the author's literary journey through the classic British novels of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Besides David Copperfield, her traveling companions include Daniel Deronda, the hero of George Eliot's last novel, as well as its heroine, Gwendolyn Harleth, whose suffering resembled the author's own in her stressed marriage. Both characters become important presences, and like Daniel, Fairey learned late in life of her Jewish ancestry. Other fictional companions, including Jane Eyre, Mrs. Ramsay (Virginia Woolf), Tess (Thomas Hardy), and Isabel (Henry James), weave in and out, helping her understand her own identity and trajectory. In this inspiring book, Fairey shows how great literature is and can be forever an inspiration, a companion, and a guide to living"--
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The rise of climate science : a memoir

2024-06-03T04:31:53Z

North, Gerald R.,
[2020]
First edition.
"In a career spanning four decades, Gerald R. North contributed groundbreaking research that continues to shape the modern field of climate science. However, the route he has taken was full of surprising twists and turns that included hate mail, eavesdropping by the KGB, and sometimes acrimonious debate with climate-change deniers. Ten years into a successful career as a physicist and professor, North made the unorthodox decision to change course and become a climate scientist. Since that pivotal decision, North's significant contributions to the field include his innovative "toy model" analysis of climate change based on ingeniously simplified models and his lead proposal for and successful approval of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. Launched in 1997, the TRMM's purpose was to collect data on the global climate system. The TRMM operated successfully for 17 years before it was deactivated in 2015. In The Rise of Climate Science, North recounts in detail his life in the vanguard of modern climate science. He offers an insider look at the academic research and government initiatives around global warming and what that means for the planet. He includes stories of conversations with top Soviet climate scientists at the height of the Cold War in the late 1970s--complete with clandestine electronic surveillance. He also describes the experience of testifying before Congress and engaging in public exchanges with those who doubted the reality of the phenomenon his research field described. Climate science today has advanced into a mature phase, combining global observations ranging from paleoclimate data retrieval to measurements of Earth's properties from space vehicles with field programs in the most remote parts of the planet and the continuously evolving power of supercomputers and simulations. As North notes, the give and take among observation, experiment, and theory via modeling are alive and constantly advancing our understanding."--
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