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Re: teacher of the year?
Rob on Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:13 am
Wonderful! Are there other schools that have such awards?jusrme wrote:a WELS area Lutheran High School near me has an annual "Educator of the Year" award.
Let's have a national version, too!
Can we publicize the names of ALHS and prep school grads who achieve great things in secular universities?
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Re: teacher of the year?
jusrme on Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:27 pm
Well, actually, a WELS area Lutheran High School near me has an annual "Educator of the Year" award.
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Who is the WELS equivalent of Rafe Esquith?
Rob on Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:38 pm
Who is the WELS equivalent of Rafe Esquith?
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Rafe Esquith, a fifth-grade teacher in Los Angeles, puts in 12-hour days so he can teach students advanced math, music, and Shakespeare before and after school. His nonprofit organization, called the Hobart Shakespeareans, was recently honored on Oprah Winfrey's TV show. Esquith's students have traveled to Europe and around the United States. Many graduates of his class -- most of them from low-income, immigrant families -- have gone on to Ivy League colleges.
Full story: http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr303.shtml
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Year after year, The Hobart Shakespeareans excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra, and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearean actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen.
Yet this takes place in Room 56, at a large urban public elementary school. All of the children at Hobart Elementary School qualify for free breakfast and lunch, and few speak English as a first language. Many are from poor or troubled families.
From website: http://www.hobartshakespeareans.org/
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Rafe Esquith is an Americanteacher at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, the second-largest elementary school in the United States, located in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of UCLA, Esquith began teaching in 1981. His teaching honors include the 1992Disney National Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, a Sigma Beta Delta Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University, Oprah Winfrey’s $100,000 Use Your Life Award, Parents Magazine’s As You Grow Award, National Medal of Arts, and Esquith was made an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.
Esquith's fifth-grade students consistently score in the top 5% to 10% of the country in standardized tests. Many of Esquith's students voluntarily start class at 7:00 each morning, two hours before the rest of the school's students. Most of his students come from immigrant Central American and Korean families and are learning English as a second language. They volunteer to come early, work through recess and stay as late as 5:30 pm, and also come to class during vacations and holidays.
Each year the Hobart Shakespeareans, as Esquith’s students are known, perform one of the Shakespeare's plays. They have opened for the Royal Shakespeare Company, been hired by Sir Peter Hall to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and appeared at the Globe Theater in London.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafe_Esquith
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Rafe Esquith, a fifth-grade teacher in Los Angeles, puts in 12-hour days so he can teach students advanced math, music, and Shakespeare before and after school. His nonprofit organization, called the Hobart Shakespeareans, was recently honored on Oprah Winfrey's TV show. Esquith's students have traveled to Europe and around the United States. Many graduates of his class -- most of them from low-income, immigrant families -- have gone on to Ivy League colleges.
Full story: http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr303.shtml
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Year after year, The Hobart Shakespeareans excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra, and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearean actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen.
Yet this takes place in Room 56, at a large urban public elementary school. All of the children at Hobart Elementary School qualify for free breakfast and lunch, and few speak English as a first language. Many are from poor or troubled families.
From website: http://www.hobartshakespeareans.org/
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Rafe Esquith is an Americanteacher at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, the second-largest elementary school in the United States, located in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of UCLA, Esquith began teaching in 1981. His teaching honors include the 1992Disney National Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, a Sigma Beta Delta Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University, Oprah Winfrey’s $100,000 Use Your Life Award, Parents Magazine’s As You Grow Award, National Medal of Arts, and Esquith was made an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.
Esquith's fifth-grade students consistently score in the top 5% to 10% of the country in standardized tests. Many of Esquith's students voluntarily start class at 7:00 each morning, two hours before the rest of the school's students. Most of his students come from immigrant Central American and Korean families and are learning English as a second language. They volunteer to come early, work through recess and stay as late as 5:30 pm, and also come to class during vacations and holidays.
Each year the Hobart Shakespeareans, as Esquith’s students are known, perform one of the Shakespeare's plays. They have opened for the Royal Shakespeare Company, been hired by Sir Peter Hall to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and appeared at the Globe Theater in London.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafe_Esquith
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