Sharing and Responding Peter Elbow, Patricia Belanoff McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1999 This brief guide continues to help foster a productive environment for group work. The activities in SHARING AND RESPONDING move from nonjudgmental kinds of responding to full criticism to help build students’ confidence and trust. It concludes with a summary of ways of responding and suggestions on how and when they are most useful.             Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope4 reviews bell hooks Routledge, 2003 Brilliant. + interesting, insightful read Totally eye opening. Really makes you question yourself and strive to be better. Reassuring that change and progress is still possible. Truly an inspiration. I also recommend Killing Rage, by bell hooks.             Writing without Teachers7 reviews Peter Elbow Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 freewriting + public review + Good, Useful Book + Not Elbow's best + Alternative view to writing             Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation52 reviews Parker J. Palmer Jossey-Bass, 1999 Priceless wisdom... + A fantastic book + Let Your Life Speak + a once in a lifetime read + My thoughts on Let Your Life Speak             Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach10 reviews Parker J. Palmer, Tom Vander Ark Jossey-Bass, 2003 Not For Teachers Only! + Every teacher needs this book + Teaching with fire:Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach + Buy this book for a teacher + Treasured Collection!             Lean on Me59 reviews Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd Warner Home Video, 1998 LEAD THEM WITH A BAT AND A BULLHORN! + "Let me tell you something, the trouble with being a teen-ager is you don't know nothing" + Lean on Me Video Review + Terrific Movie             The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life49 reviews Parker J. Palmer Jossey-Bass, 1997 Great insights. + A Book to Re-Read + Necessary + The Courage to Teach-Text book             Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process14 reviews Peter Elbow Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 A Powerful Book + Writing With Power + Great Resource! + Writing with Power + "krakka"             The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World ...137 reviews Freedom Writers, Zlata Filipovic Main Street Books, 1999 The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them + books + Freedom Writers Diary + Freedom Writers Diary             To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey28 reviews Parker J. Palmer HarperOne, 1993 Outstanding and transformational! + To Know As We Are Known Book Review + Rekindling excitement about teaching + Palmer's classic             There Are No Shortcuts79 reviews Rafe Esquith Anchor, 2004 Awesome book, Awesome person! + Self-serving, but entertaining and educational... + There Are No Shortcuts review As a teacher, I highly reccomend Rafe's first book. His life story is truly inspiring and encouraging for those of us in the trenches of the classroom. I think it is a mistake to criticize his way of life or dedication, but rather look at your own situation, and see what you can learn from his ...             Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times6 reviews Neil Astley Miramax, 2003 great anthology + A Very Rich Meal Indeed + Staying Alive is so good + Staying Alive is awesome             Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry11 reviews Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003 It meets its intended goal + Good for Teachers + A Fine Poetry Anthology Poetry 180 is both impressive and disappointing. Collins has assembled a volume of accessible, contemporary poetry. It is poetry that will easily convince teens (and the general poetry-impaired public)that poetry can speak directly to them without the academic trappings of analysis. This is an ...             Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing1 review Peter Elbow Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 Probably Elbow's best book yet! Probably Elbow's best book yet. This is a superb book reconciling the often conflicting dimensions of the writing process--public vs. private, high-stakes vs. low-stakes writing, freewriting vs. crafted writing, etc.--so much so that it has virtually eliminated my 15-year-old case of writer's ...             The Essential 55: An Award-winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child142 reviews Ron Clark Hyperion, 2004 AWESOME!! + Not perfect, but some good ideas + Helpful Ideas for Every Teacher + Life Essentials             Inside Out & Outside In The Students of Farmington Highschool StoneGarden.net Publishing, 2007 When I first collected their essays, I laughed, I sighed and I took pause to think about my own life. And more importantly, I truly-perhaps for the first time-saw theirs. I learned that teenagers have much to teach the rest of us in many avenues of our own lives, and they have much to say...for all of us, a breath of fresh air. It was a "coming home." -Luke Reynolds             Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 5615 reviews Rafe Esquith Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Amazing book! + Teacher with a passion + Cornucopeia + Reminds us why we teach!             Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom18 reviews bell hooks Routledge, 1994 Extremely Good Segue to Freire + Excellent colletction of essays + The Road Is Long This is the third of three books on liberation pedagogy that I picked up, the other two being Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Critical Perspectives Series) and Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This book is a collection of essays by a woman of color who studied with Freire ...             Lean on Me59 reviews Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd Warner Home Video, 1998 LEAD THEM WITH A BAT AND A BULLHORN! + "Let me tell you something, the trouble with being a teen-ager is you don't know nothing" + Lean on Me Video Review + Terrific Movie             Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry11 reviews Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003 It meets its intended goal + Good for Teachers + A Fine Poetry Anthology Poetry 180 is both impressive and disappointing. Collins has assembled a volume of accessible, contemporary poetry. It is poetry that will easily convince teens (and the general poetry-impaired public)that poetry can speak directly to them without the academic trappings of analysis. This is an ...