That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community. - Erin Gruwell 1 Share Now -
That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community. - Erin Gruwell 2 Share Now -
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world. - Erin Gruwell 3 Share Now -
Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. - Erin Gruwell 4 Share Now -
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered. - Erin Gruwell 5 Share Now -
I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test. - Erin Gruwell 6 Share Now -
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness. - Erin Gruwell 7 Share Now -
That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community. - Erin Gruwell 8 Share Now -
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness. - Erin Gruwell 9 Share Now -
When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life. - Erin Gruwell 10 Share Now -
