Just a Teacher: Trailer Park Tales and Backwoods Lore - Paperback
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Milken National Educator Award Winner
Delores Kohl Foundation National Award Winner "Just a Teacher is a dedicated teacher's perspective on the plight of public school students. Mr. Tourzan eloquently describes his multicultural career of helping underserved children. These unique true student stories serve as beacons to guide educational reform. Prospective teachers need to read this book to get a realistic vision of the daily challenges and joys of this powerful profession. I recommend this book to anyone involved with children, education, or philanthropy." - Tom Cole, Founder, Kids Unlimited Academy
Just a Teacher: Trailer Park Tales and Backwoods Lore - Paperback
$9.45
by David Tourzan (Author)
Just a Teachershares the voices of our children, describing how teachers change lives every day. OEA award-winning educator, David Tourzan relates the ongoing struggles and daily victories from over 20 years of public school teaching. At times painful, these compelling, intimate stories show both the great potential and inherent limits of hopeful empowerment.
Just a Teacher's brutally honest account of rural, low-income schools is both inspiring and entertaining, with a blend of comedy and simmering indignation. Tourzan confronts major obstacles to improving education in the United States as he takes on underfunded schools, overtested students, union bureaucracy, school lunches, and even student body fluids. The full spectrum of teaching is revealed in unflinching detail.
Readers will laugh and cry at the ironic and amusing descriptions of our common plight. We were all students at some point in life, and we all want better schools for kids. Just a Teacher inspires us to listen carefully to the voices of our children.
Milken National Educator Award Winner
Delores Kohl Foundation National Award Winner "Just a Teacher is a dedicated teacher's perspective on the plight of public school students. Mr. Tourzan eloquently describes his multicultural career of helping underserved children. These unique true student stories serve as beacons to guide educational reform. Prospective teachers need to read this book to get a realistic vision of the daily challenges and joys of this powerful profession. I recommend this book to anyone involved with children, education, or philanthropy." - Tom Cole, Founder, Kids Unlimited Academy
Author Biography
David Tourzan has taught public school math and science for twenty years and has received over $100,000 in grants for innovative programs. In addition to cofounding the Outdoor Discovery Program in southern Oregon, he founded Oregon's first biodiesel company and serves as board president for the local nonprofit Farm to School Program. As cofounder and president of the nonprofit Grandmothers Empowerment Project, Tourzan has distributed over $60,000 to local Native American elders. Tourzan has a master's degree in special education from Portland State University and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Reed College. He is a proud father of two boys, and his wife is a public school Waldorf kindergarten teacher. He is not trying to sell you anything and all book proceeds support local non-profits.
Number of Pages: 150
Dimensions: 0.32 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: November 13, 2015
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