Biography & Autobiography - Educators

Well let me tell you a little about Ms. Berry, I was born in Worcester Massachusetts, on May 29, but grew up in California, where I started school till my mother decided to leave, California and move back to Worcester, Massachusetts some years later....

150 50: A Teacher's Account of Urban Schools introduces various ways to teach culture and identity in the classroom. In order to do this, school districts and teachers must work hand-in-hand to create a healthy environment for children that addresses the whole culture of...

Friedrich Froebel, the 'father of kindergarten', is one of the most influential pedagogues of the 19th century. However, relatively little is known about his life, his successes and failures, and his personal relationships. Based on many untranslated and unknown letters, this new biography presents...

The book covers his experiences in a NYC High School called Washington Irving, an all girls school, including founding an alternative school site for potential dropouts, his work at the central Board of Education and with an alternative high school called City as School...

A Place Called Home: Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau is a place-based creative non-fiction memoir at its heart. It is a collection of stories about how finding my "place" was essential to finding my happiness. It is a template for...

The story is about a young Black kid who had a dream of becoming a professional orchestra conductor. I grew up in a low-income area of Pittsburgh where three steel mills were within a mile radius of my home. The B&O railroad ran through...

J. E. Wallace Sterling was Stanford University's fifth president, serving from 1949 until 1968. During his presidency, Stanford evolved from a notable regional university into a leading national and eventually international university--developments in which Sterling played a critical part. Taking advantage of a postwar...

A spirited elder recounts her activist journey to confront the terrors of climate change.In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first Assessment Report. By then, award-winning urban planner Wendy Sarkissian had been singing the climate blues for years. Her colleagues...

Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson shares the shocking true story of Tyler, an abused eleven-year-old who, after stabbing his step-mother, had nowhere else to go.Knowing a little of Tyler's past - his biological mother, a heroin addict, died of an overdose when...

Educator David Campbell experienced a unique time of life in American history-- growing up in industrial small town Galion, Ohio in the mid-twentieth century. He recorded some of his childhood recollections as part of a memoir for his children that he never finished.Now, with...

For thirty years, Charlie Gross of Princeton University headed one of the most consequential neuroscience labs of the twentieth century, hidden behind locked doors in a secret wing of an old stone building. Michael Graziano, a member of that elite group of lab mates...

This book is about the life and times of Dr. Becky Rouse-Curry as an educator in the Twiggs County school system. She faced many trials and tribulations; however, her faith in God brought her through all her situations. She is retired now, but she...

A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor. In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the 1940s....

Joan Zaretsky was adopted as an infant, and grew up in a loving, happy home with adoptive parents who supported her to experience many opportunities. Following her retirement, and her adoptive parents passing away, Joan courageously endeavors to reconnect with her birth family-but this...

Here is a tribute to Don R. Marcouiller, professor of music and director emeritus of Drake University Bands, written by Drake alumnus Thompson Brandt. It captures the spirit, musicianship, and leadership employed by Marcouiller in a career that took "Chief" (as he was respectfully...

Edgar H. Schein, a major contributor to the field of organizational psychology, often gets asked how he became interested in culture, careers, and consulting-so he wrote this first part of his autobiography to answer that question. From his early years in Switzerland, the Soviet...

Dr Robert Garmston, a high school dropout, whose childhood is characterized by rejection, abandonment, and abuse sees himself as having a core of badness and as someone who is unlovable. In his childhood, he spends more time in group homes than with his adopted...

Joan Zaretsky was adopted as an infant, and grew up in a loving, happy home with adoptive parents who supported her to experience many opportunities. Following her retirement, and her adoptive parents passing away, Joan courageously endeavors to reconnect with her birth family-but this...

My First Hundred Years is a memoir of the lifetime of Dr. Will Adams who shares many varied experiences culminating in the knowledge and opinions of a man who has lived a very fulfilling life. The book begins with an introduction to his family...

Bryan "Griz" Feisel is passionate about the outdoors. Bryan takes you on a journey of not only bowhunting for white-tailed deer but several species including turkey, predators, and small game. Bryan has developed unique methods of harvesting and processing these animals. Please take this...

In an age when the world can feel especially dark, Surprised By Glory is a collection of true stories and hopeful essays that invites the reader to consider setting down the fear and anger of the current moment in order to seek instead the...

University of Iowa legend Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd is a proud middle westerner. His decades of service to the university began in 1954, when he arrived as a law professor. He later became president of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981, and...

In an age when the world can feel especially dark, Surprised By Glory is a collection of true stories and hopeful essays that invites the reader to consider setting down the fear and anger of the current moment in order to seek instead the...

The privilege of writing an autobiography is usually reserved for the famous or infamous. Now, an expert in life stories turns his focus to his own story. The author connects his personal life with relevant aspects of the history of Italian Americans in the...

This memoir presents a special look into Professor Cheng-Few Lee's formative childhood years, his distinguished career as a respected scholar and conference organizer, and his substantial experience in the fields of education and policy-making. It shares the innovative methods and forward-looking educational philosophy that...

Goronwy Rees is best known for his close friendship with Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five Cold War spies, and how that ruined his career and his life. His convoluted motivations remain an enigma. Here we interpret his life in terms of current...

Dr. Lewis gives instructions on how to teach by recounting some of her personal experiences in brief and pointed paragraphs.Author: Virginia LewisISBN-10: 0883782669ISBN-13: 9780883782668Publisher: Third World PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 171Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.56d

Perhaps the most prominent historian of his time, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was always at the center of public controversy, wielding power inside the history profession while exercising influence on the reading public. In this collection of essays, historians examine the writings of the...

Life began for Paula Rothenberg in a privileged home in New York City, but it took her to the battlefields of the culture wars on behalf of the underprivileged. Now this veteran of that cultural clash examines the subtle and complex ways in which...

As a young married couple in 1976, David and June Marston shocked their family and friends by abandoning the predictable Midwestern life laid out before them and accepting teaching jobs in an American school in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The life stories of fascinating people met,...

Fran輟is-Marie Arouet, more commonly known as Voltaire, was one of the most important Enlightenment philosophers and writers. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets during his lifetime. His writing covered almost every literary form from plays to poems to essays...

Being a teacher is intense, passionate, difficult, exasperating, exciting, demanding, and-most of all -rewarding!Which is exactly why Dennis Haft wrote The Legend of the Happy Teacher-Stories and Strategies for Keeping Your Passion.Based on his 30-plus years as a reading specialist, a classroom teacher, school...

Plato: The Biography of Greece's Republic Philosopher who Founded the Platonist School of Thought, delves into the life and profound contributions of one of the most influential thinkers in Western philosophy. Born in Athens during the Classical period of Ancient Greece, Plato's intellectual legacy...

This book follows the true story of a burnt-out teacher who is trying to establish an alternative career as an author and self-publisher of mathematics books. The story follows him from his original roots in South Africa, to his education in England, his career...

During my lifetime, I've been told well over 100 times that I should write a book, from almost drowning from falling into a horse trough at Age Three, to being escorted out of Montana State Prison through 700 hardened convicts who wanted to kill...

Inspired by the centenary of the publication of Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, this collection of essays reinterprets Washington's career and self-presentation. As the most visible and widely acclaimed black leader of his era, Washington played a pivotal role in advocating a strategy for...

This is the story of an extraordinary educator who also became a dance leader. As superintendent of the public K-12 Cheyenne Mountain School in Colorado Springs from 1916 to 1951, Lloyd Shaw conducted an experiment in public education that won national attention. After coaching...

The memoirs relay memories of Afghan writer, philosopher, historian and statesman, Professor Ustad Khalilullah Khalili. Professor Khalili authored more than seventy works of poetry, fiction, histories and Sufi studies.Author: Marie Khalili, Afzal NasiriISBN-10: 0615889727ISBN-13: 9780615889726Publisher: Afzal NasiriLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2013Pages: 544Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.02h x...

Starting in 1967, a time when fewer than 1% of women completed advanced degrees, the Washington State University (WSU) Sociology Department hired three female faculty members who became supportive lifelong friends: Lois B. DeFleur, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, and Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman. Each served as a role...

In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant marriage, Live As If... tells the story of...

Born Black and illegitimate to a teenage mother, and having suffered under the ill effects of segregation, Muriel Wade-Smith decided to rise above the evil oppression of racism and colonialism to attain a Ph.D.; the highest qualification in her chosen field of education. Through...

Author: Booker T. WashingtonISBN-10: 1604440848ISBN-13: 9781604440843Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2010Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.2Point Value: 13Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 549 / Up from Slavery

Hard Truth: Growing out of Adversity, tells the remarkable story of the author's journey towards healing and resilience. Having lost her father during her childhood the author retraces her earliest memories of growing up in the idyllic setting of Barbados. While happy and securely...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

When Mallika Stubbs was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) right before her 35th birthday, her first thought was to strategically inform her family and friends without alarming them of the bleak prognosis the doctors had shared hours before. As it turned out, explaining...

At most American colleges today, the majority of classes aren't taught by professors on full-time staff, but by part-time "adjunct" professors who typically get a third of the pay and none of the benefits full-timers receive. Usually, the number of classes they're allowed to...

The collected poems of Rev. Stanley L. Benjamin, a Poet of the Northwoods, as expanded by his grandchildren Stanley G. Benjamin and Amanda J. Holmes, with the additional help of Daniel W. StewartAuthor: Stanley L. BenjaminISBN-10: 1949285057ISBN-13: 9781949285055Publisher: History by DesignLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2022Pages: 258Format:...

Filomena Magavero was an academic librarian at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx, New York, where she contended with a level of sexism that defined professional life for female librarians in the mid 20th century. This book is the story of an "everywoman" of...

This a memoir of William V. Muse who grew up in rural Mississippi and Louisiana as the seventh son of a Pentacostal minister. By winning academic scholarships, he was able to earn bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees and advance thru an academic career from...

What if, by eight years old, children could possess the mechanism to disrupt prejudicial tendencies? That is an argument posited by Jane Elliott for more than five decades. She initially made the claim the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.-first with...