What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher

Authors

• Jahana Hayes, 2016 National Teach of the Year
• Irvin Scott, Deputy Director of Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Lee Gutkind

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Description

Straight from the classroom, 20 true stories about what it takes to be a teacher. Every day in every classroom, teachers take on incredible challenges. Some are big, like bridging significant cultural differences, moving back into a school building after a shooting, or learning how to successfully navigating delicate institutional politics. Others are smaller, like keeping first graders on task, or figuring out how to keep teenagers from cussing all the time. Whether in the Mississippi Delta or Malawi; Alaska or Los Angeles; whether in their first day or their tenth year on the job—every day, educators reach deep to find strength and grace they didn’t know they had.

Publication Date

2016

Publisher

In Fact Books

City

Pittsburgh

Recommended Citation

Hayes, J., Scott, I., & Gutkind, L. (2016). What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher. Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/creativenonfiction-books/10