Mallory's review
Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students (Teaching for Social Justice Series) by Gregory Michie
Mallory's review
rating:
recommended for: teachers, Fellows, kids, everyone
status: Read in March, 2007
rating:
recommended for: teachers, Fellows, kids, everyone
status: Read in March, 2007
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 interspliced their words with his own (alternating chapters) was just one illustration of that.
I laughed out loud; I cried. Seriously. This book is a work of art. Everyone who has ever known an inner city kid should read this.
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 interspliced their words with his own (alternating chapters) was just one illustration of that.
I laughed out loud; I cried. Seriously. This book is a work of art. Everyone who has ever known an inner city kid should read this.
