educators

Dr. Freddie Thomas excelled in more fields in one lifetime than most people would in two or three. He was a historian and a scientist, an inventor, and an author, a book collector, a composer, and a scholar. Born in Virginia, he studied at Virginia State University, Wagner College, Albany Medical School, and the University of Rochester. He did significant biological research at the Eastman Kodak Company and at the University of Rochester, but was also known as an authority in Afro-American and Jewish cultural history. - Summery from City of Rochester.

Simple text and photographs introduce the life of Booker T. Washington.

Presents a beginner's biography of African-American educator and social reformer Booker T. Washington.

"[This book] is a . . . resource for cultivating resilience in educators that is based on the author's research in emotional resilience, psychology, systems thinking, and change management and on ten years of testing in schools and offices. [This book] outlines a conceptual framework with four parts: who we are, where we are, what we do, and how we are. The book identifies 12 habits and dispositions that can be cultivated in order to build resilience"--Back cover.

Profiles the life of educator, government adviser, and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune.

Discusses the impact Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman had on the public schools of the United States, describing their roles as mission-driven reformers, and examining how public education will change in the twenty-first century.

Nadia Lopez shares the inspiring vision for Mott Hall Bridges Academy, the middle school she founded against the odds in Brownsville, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

Chronicles the life ofAfrican American Booker T. Washingt on, who became an inpirational teacher, speaker and author.

"[A picture book that relates the story of] Lilly Ann Granderson, an enslaved teacher who strongly believed in the power of education and risked her life to teach others during slavery. Includes afterword and sources"--Provided by publisher.

A tenth-anniversary edition of John Gatto's essays and speeches in which the New York City teacher explains why he believes public schools are failures, and discusses what children need to get a valuable education. Includes a new foreword, introduction, and afterword.