Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students (Teaching for Social Justice Series)

by Gregory Michie
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Gregory Michie
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7 ratings, 3.43 average rating, 2 reviews (more data...)
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published
October 15th 1999 by Teachers College Press

binding
Hardcover, 186 pages

isbn
0807738891   (isbn13: 9780807738894)

description
Michie's account of learning to teach in a big and often unwieldy public school system deals honestly with the critical moral issues all teachers must...more






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Mallory
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03/21/07

Read in March, 2007
recommends it for: teachers, Fellows, kids, everyone
I have a crush on Greg Michie. Greg, if you ever read this, please move to New York and teach here and be my boyfriend.

There, now that I got that out of the way...

I was really impressed by Holler if you Hear Me. While the Esquith book, Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire read (to me) like the author's love poem to himself, this book read like Michie's love poem to his students. You can really, really tell just how much this teacher cared about these kids. The way he intersp...more
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Anne-Marie
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05/03/07

bookshelves: education
Has a copy to sell/swap
The accounts of a Chicago teacher - powerful and real - not sugarcoated. A bit leaning towards the "social justice" theme.
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Charlotte
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03/29/07

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