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Erin Gruwell
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 15
,
1969
Believe
Change
Education
Me
Writing
You
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Denis Waitley
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I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.
Erin Gruwell
Teacher
Good
Daily
Me
Good Teacher
Better
Valuable
Blessed
Student
Students
Importance
Learn
Learned
Although
Am
Test
Taught
Much
Teaching
Lessons
Daily Basis
Basis
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
Erin Gruwell
You
Change
World
Community
Change The World
Enough
Classroom
Realized
Communities
That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.
Erin Gruwell
Education
Family
World
Beauty
Own
Community
Back
Positively
Kids
Out
Classroom
Taking
Greater
Affect
Friends
Where
Lessons
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.
Erin Gruwell
Teacher
Believe
Our
Born
Impassioned
Students
Feel
Empowered
Calling
Advocacy
Am
Want
Bred
Teachers
Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.
Erin Gruwell
Failure
Some
Emotional
Feel
Sport
Ask
Teachers
Teaching
Team
Help
Team Sport
I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.
Erin Gruwell
Important
Believe
Everyone
Tell
Students
Encourage
Story
When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.
Erin Gruwell
Life
You
Learning
Whatever
Too
Out
Visual
Tried
Students
Robotic
Always
Different
Tune
Scripted
Might
Use
Bring
I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't give up on them. I let them know it matters to me that you come to class, it matters to me that you try, it matters to me when you succeed.
Erin Gruwell
Me
You
Class
Matter
Try
Parents
Matters
Other
Kids
Give
Parole
Come
Know
Up
Officers
Going
Happened
Succeed
Them
Teachers
Show
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
Erin Gruwell
You
Think
Our
Kid
Response
Student
Feel
Like
Test
Lot
Really
Teach
Teachers
Teaching
Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.
Erin Gruwell
Writing
Few
Way
Empathy
Very
Few Things
Really
Things
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