Biography & Autobiography - Educators

Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America's most recognizable and admired progressive voices. His rich, complicated, and fascinating...

William L. Bulkley was one of the important educators and reformers of the early 20th Century and it is time to incorporate him into the American story.He was born to free, mixed-race parents in South Carolina just as the Civil War began. He graduated...

" S]tirring . . . a bold, inspiring and ultimately hopeful book." --Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and author of the New York Times bestseller Thrive"A beautiful portrait of the power of hope and love in the healing of a...

The ultimate hockey dad, Karl Subban is a former school principal and father of five, including three sons--P.K., Malcolm and Jordan--who have been drafted to the NHL. Karl's inspirational story follows the hockey journey from house league to the big leagues and shows how...

To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas Miraculous," the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel...

Author: Barbara Lourie SandISBN-10: 1574670522ISBN-13: 9781574670523Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 160

A humane memoir, written with poignancy, humour and satire, of the influences that bind us to places and time. Haunted by shadows of an unfulfilled childhood, redemption is found through education. The insights into working-class life in the valleys is an honest picture of...

"Beginning Educator" these are the words that are printed on the first teaching certificate a new teacher receives from the State of New Hampshire. The second certificate, and every renewal thereafter, says "Experienced Educator." When Tim became an "Experienced Educator" three years after he...

This behind-the-scenes collection of vignettes, as told by a professor of four decades, shares the story of life at America's second-oldest college from 1950 to 2000. Learn about the remarkable students, faculty, administrators, and alumni who helped bring William & Mary into the 21st...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year The remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education--now known the world over as the Suzuki Method. The name Shinichi Suzuki is synonymous with early...

In this entertaining and inspiring memoir, renowned educator Paul Cummins candidly shares his journey from privileged kid and ivory-tower scholar to hands-on progressive educator, working to achieve social justice through education for all youth: from children of celebrities to foster and incarcerated youth and...

This is the story of how a boy from a poor background benefited from the new opportunities available in the post-1945 era to attend a very good grammar school, gain entry to Oxford University and eventually became a professor at a top grade university,...

A nostalgic collection of memoirs from Memorial University's early years of innovation and community-building.Author: Roberta BuchananISBN-10: 1894725522ISBN-13: 9781894725521Publisher: ISER BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2019Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

We all have been impacted by amazing influences in our lives. As such, we create an everlasting ripple effect by learning lessons from those that have affected us. When we apply those lessons, we can make our world a better place. The Impact of...

Cold Spell is a collection of stories--warm, humorous, and at times cautionary--about living in Maine. Here are stories about the seasons, the critters, the neighbors, the land itself, Author: Todd R. NelsonISBN-10: 1684750571ISBN-13: 9781684750573Publisher: Down East BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2022Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.79h x...

In this thought-provoking first book, noted clinical psychologist Sandra Shaw Dawood, Ph.D., shares her heartfelt and playful communication with God through the symbols He has provided her. Through wordplay, poetry, and autobiographical excerpts, Dr. Dawood lets the reader experience her struggle to turn negative...

Fifteen years into a successful career as a college professor, Ilana Blumberg encounters a crisis in the classroom that sends her back to the most basic questions about education and prompts a life-changing journey that ultimately takes her from East Lansing to Tel Aviv....

There are two ways to be starving. One is to be lacking food. The other is to go without love, respect, recognition, support, and someone to care for and challenge you. When Danny McDermott came to Harriet Tubman School in Chicago as a teacher...

From 1887 until 1970, African American (Black) Students in Lee County were educated separately. Lee County Florida during this era was typical of the public school systems throughout the South. Black students attended school in a variety of facilities that included but were not...

A butterfly-this butterfly, Evelyn, has moved out of the painful cocoon of abuse to fly Her memoir is a powerful testament to courage under fire. What a testament of grace and guts Evelyn's evolution into consciousness from victim to survivor to pastor is a...

In September 1969, Amelia Hardy arrives at the leafy campus of a Yorkshire teacher training college to fulfil her teaching ambitions. In this new world away from home, friendships destined to last a lifetime will be found. There are challenges to face and fun...

Parents, a child is born into your home. What are your parental responsibilities especially from birth to the time of entering school? What kind of model are you living that your child will be a wholesome developed individual before he enters school? The child...

While Experience Is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic is about leadership, it is not a handbook on how to be a leader.When her parents moved from New York City to a small town in Alabama, R. Barbara Gitenstein knew that she just...

While Experience Is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic is about leadership, it is not a handbook on how to be a leader.When her parents moved from New York City to a small town in Alabama, R. Barbara Gitenstein knew that she just...

Thousands of children have discovered the joys of reading thanks to Genevi钁e Patte, a pioneer in establishing libraries specifically for children and promoting literacy in France. What Gets Them to Read Like That? is the remarkable tale of Patte's life story and her social...

An homage to the life of poet, writer, and teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum and her impact on incarcerated and marginalized students. The Book of Judith honors Judith Tannenbaum but also reflects, through both form and content, on the complexities of seeing both the parts...

An homage to the life of poet, writer, and teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum and her impact on incarcerated and marginalized students. The Book of Judith honors Judith Tannenbaum but also reflects, through both form and content, on the complexities of seeing both the parts...

Wilson Fitzpatrick will tell you he isn't a Martin Luther King. You can tell he admires what Rosa Parks did by simply not giving up her bus seat, but Wilson says he is no civil rights activist. In fact, Wilson may be a reluctant...

INSTANT BESTSELLER For parents, teachers, and everyone who remembers being a student, an unforgettable glimpse into the inner workings of school, from a life-long educator. Children spend most of their waking hours in school, exploring boundaries, forming important relationships, and of course, learning. But...

In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the '60s and '70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by the colonialism and systemic racism that continues today....

Writer and educator Mary Bomford describes the formative years of her life working as a teacher in Zambia, and the long-lasting impact those years imprinted upon her. At the age of 21, Canadian teacher Mary Bomford and her husband of just eight weeks embarked...

A memoir of a Quaker activist and master storyteller on his involvement in struggles for peace, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, labor justice, and the environment, whose life will be the subject of a new documentary film coming in 2023. From his first arrest in...

An engaging account of one woman's overcoming the Depression and small town mores.Viola Goode Liddell's short memoir tells the story of her return to Alabama in search of a husband and a new life. Thirty years old and recently divorced, Liddell comes back to...

FOLLOW THE COMICAL EXPLOITS OF AN ALTAR BOY FROM THE BYGONE DAYS OF THE 1950s AND 1960s IN FASTLANE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. BUCKLE UP FOR A WILD RIDE!Watch the hilarious battle between our hero's good and bad angels as they compete for power and influence....

FOLLOW THE COMICAL EXPLOITS OF AN ALTAR BOY FROM THE BYGONE DAYS OF THE 1950s AND 1960s IN FASTLANE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. BUCKLE UP FOR A WILD RIDE!Watch the hilarious battle between our hero's good and bad angels as they compete for power and influence....

At an elite prep school, the devil wears Lilly Pulitzer pink. When Wade Rouse, who grew up more Hee-Haw than Dynasty, was hired as the director of publicity at the prestigious Tate Academy, he quickly discovered his real job: to make the very pretty,...

"Just Another Kid is not just another book. This remarkable teacher's memoir reminds us that love takes many forms." -The New York TimesFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes the true story of six children impossible to reach and the amazing teacher who...

From the bestselling author of One Child comes this compelling, true story of a child in desperate peril and the teacher who saved her despite the odds.Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie...

You're in at 7am, there until 7pm and marking into the late hours. You've got one student who's a full time carer, another who's pregnant, and a third who's just joined a gang. You haven't got enough textbooks to go around, and one of...

A Maverick Boasian explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser (1880-1940), a scholar considered by his contemporaries to be Franz Boas's most brilliant and most favored student. The story of his life and scholarship is complex and exciting as well as frustrating. Although...

Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture. Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary...

The engaging memoir of a college president and public intellectual who became one of America's leading mid-twentieth-century social and educational activists.Author: Craig KridelISBN-10: 1438490631ISBN-13: 9781438490632Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2022Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

One of the most remarkable education leaders of the late nineteenth century and the creator of the modern American research university finally gets his due.Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale-trained geographer who first worked as librarian at his alma mater, led a truly remarkable life....

Known to millions as simply "Sister Jean," the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond. As Sister Jean wisely says, "I've seen so many changes in...

A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places "home," from Dhaka...

Elevators: A Memoir: In this memoir, Jodi Fernandez takes you with her on her journey through the darkness that enveloped the better part of her childhood beginning in Edenwald projects at the height of the Crack epidemic to the power of her infinite light...

From humble beginnings in Nashville, Tennessee, formally known as the Country Music Capital of the World and having a population of 170,000, to thriving as an Aristocrat of Bands member and influencing generations through music, Stanley D. Stewart shares his unique story of perseverance,...

This collection of essays is a tribute to the lifetime achievements of the erudite Muslim scholar-activist, Osman Bakar. Recognized as among the world's most influential Muslims, Osman is author and editor of close to three dozen books and hundreds of articles, many of which...

A giftable collection of essays from celebrity contributors celebrating the great work of teachers or a teacher they admire, curated by ABC News journalist Deborah Roberts. Contributors include Oprah Winfrey, Jenna Bush Hager, Robin Roberts, Brooke Shields, Octavia Spencer, Rachael Ray, Misty Copeland, and...

This book was written to help you get a net worth with which you can be happy. It was written for the person just starting out, who is just beginning to make money and who wants to use that money wisely. It assumes that...