The Teacher You Want to Be: Essays about Children, Learning, and Teaching

By Matt Glover, Edited by Ellin Oliver Keene Foreword by Alfie Kohn This book is about bringing the education we want for our own children to all. It is focused on a set of strongly held beliefs that drive the actions of educators every day. Each of the 13 essays, centered around one of these beliefs, invites readers to consider what they can do to help children attend schools based… Read more

By Matt Glover, Edited by Ellin Oliver Keene 
Foreword by Alfie Kohn

This book is about bringing the education we want for our own children to all. It is focused on a set of strongly held beliefs that drive the actions of educators every day. Each of the 13 essays, centered around one of these beliefs, invites readers to consider what they can do to help children attend schools based on the true, authentic expressions of their teachers’ beliefs.

In 2012, a diverse group American educators made a pilgrimage to Italy to observe instruction at a Reggio Emilia school. Their observations resulted in a desire to articulate a set of belief statements about education. This book is based on those beliefs. With this collection, the authors and editors hope to create a space in the current education conversation for teachers to know that they can teach in a way that is aligned to their beliefs.

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