How To Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

5th grade teacher Rafe Esquith explains how he inspires his students to rise above the violence and poverty of their Los Angeles neighborhood in How To Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire.

How To Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire is available for purchase at amazon.com

Events: Rafe Esquith and his students will be speaking and performing
Tuesday, January 23 at 7 pm
Lincoln Square Barnes & Noble
1972 Broadway, at 66th Street

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