{"product_id":"teacher-sol-maria-l-angala-nbct-9798185005620","title":"Teacher Sol: A Memoir of Leaving, Surviving, and Coming Back to Help Change Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe was a school founder in Manila. In Washington DC, on her second day teaching in America, a student pressed a sharpened pencil to her throat.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe never went back to that school. She went to the next one. And the one after that-for twenty-two years-until she built something the system didn't have a name for yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTEACHER SOL\u003c\/b\u003e is the memoir of Maria Lourdes Angala: National Board Certified Teacher, bilingual special education specialist, and the developer of the A.C.C.E.S.S. Literacy Framework(TM), now used in classrooms across three countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a Filipina woman who left everything she had built-a school, a reputation, a country that knew her name-to start over in a place that didn't. Who sold her jewelry for grocery money. Who spent her food budget on phone cards just to hear her daughter's voice. Who filed incident report after incident report into administrative silence, and cried outside her own classroom door more mornings than she can count.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd who went back in. Every single time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a book about resilience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResilience is what you call a person's suffering when you don't want to fix the system that caused it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about what immigrant teachers carry that no orientation ever prepares them for. About the children who exist at the intersection of language and learning difference-the ones the textbooks forgot, the ones the assessments mislabeled, the ones everyone else gave up on. About what it actually takes to see them clearly, and what it costs to learn how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- For \u003cb\u003eimmigrant teachers\u003c\/b\u003e everywhere, this book is a mirror.\u003cbr\u003e- For \u003cb\u003eeducator leaders\u003c\/b\u003e, it's a window into the experience of the teachers they keep losing-and a blueprint for keeping them.\u003cbr\u003e- For \u003cb\u003eevery reader\u003c\/b\u003e, it's the story of a woman who refused to let a closed door be the end of anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in scenes so specific they become universal-a mango-flavored ice candy instead of the mango she craved, a student's letter that says \u003ci\u003e\"we treat her like our mother,\"\u003c\/i\u003e a room full of Filipino teachers leaning forward to hear what she learned the hard way-this memoir earns every lesson it teaches by never once explaining it. The lessons live inside the story, exactly where lessons are supposed to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Angala is still teaching. Still building. Still walking through doors that were never opened for her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTEACHER SOL\u003c\/b\u003e is the book she was always writing-even during the years she didn't have words for it yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria L. Angala Nbct\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185005620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Maria L. Angala Nbct","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48871443595519,"sku":"9798185005620","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/teacher-sol-maria-l-angala-nbct-9798185005620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}