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- Title: Chalkboard Champions
- Author : Terry Lee Marzell
- Release Date : January 21, 2013
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1755 KB
Description
A California strawberry farmer. A female cattle rancher. A West Virginia coal
miner. A Bolivian immigrant. What do these individuals have in common? Each one
achieved recognition as a gifted and dedicated teacher who worked with some of
America's most disenfranchised and disadvantaged students.
Among the captivating stories included in this volume is that of Charlotte Forten
Grimke, an African American born into freedom in the North, who during the Civil
War volunteered to teach emancipated slaves in a South Carolina school established
just behind the battle lines. Read the gripping eyewitness account of the Wounded
Knee Massacre by teacher Elaine Goodale Eastman, the talented New England child
poet who founded a school for Sioux Indians on a South Dakota reservation. Also
included are the fascinating stories of Leonard Covello, the Italian immigrant turned
school teacher who enlisted in the US Army during WWI to fight alongside his
students, and educator Mary Tsukamoto, imprisoned in a WWII Japanese internment
camp. Read about Mississippi Freedom Summer teacher Sandra Adickes who,
together with her students, defied the Jim Crow laws of the South and integrated the
Hattiesburg Public Library. Marvel at the pioneering work of Anne Sullivan Macy, the
teacher of Helen Keller; the efforts of Clara Comstock to find homes for thousands of
Orphan Train riders; and the dedication of Jaime Escalante, the East LA educator who
proved to a skeptical establishment that inner city Latino youths could successfully
meet the demands of a rigorous curriculum.
The inspirational life stories of twelve remarkable educators and the historical
implications of their pioneering work are revealed in this intriguing collection of
Chalkboard Champions.
About the Author
Terry Lee Marzell has been an
educator in Corona, California, for the past thirty-one years, working at both the high
school and the junior high school levels. She earned a bachelor's degree in English
and a master's in interdisciplinary studies from California State University. She lives
in Chino Hills, California, with her husband, Hal.
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