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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 | Rafe Esquith

I picked up this book to get some new ideas for the upcoming school year. It has some good advice and tips that I plan to implement, but when I Googled the author to find his Pengiun blog, I found that he was fired from his district for old allegations of sexual misconduct. He started a class action suit against the district for firing teachers who were close to retirement to save on benefits, but that's kind of leaving me with a bad taste now. 😐

Rachel.Rencher Also, he mentions in the book that his elementary age students can call him for homework help after hours, work with him on the weekends, and they call him by his first name. I know this was published 20 years ago, but yikesss. Ugh. Can anyone recommend a good teacher book? I feel like they're all so cheesy, and if I do find a good one, the guy is a damn predator. 😭 2mo

GingerAntics In this day and age, I can get having a virtual classroom chat where questions can be sent to the teacher and the teacher can answer after hours if possible, but only in the school approved system. We used Microsoft teams, so o specifically had a “room” that I called office hours, and I told them they could ask a question whenever and I would answer as soon as I could. I knew the school could see very chat and every word, so I felt okay about it. 2mo

GingerAntics One of my students having my phone number? Man, even students that have graduated don‘t even have that. Weird. I guess if I was working with elementary age kids, I could have a phone just for school that MAYBE parents had, but even that seems a bit much. It‘s better to have the paper trail of emails or chats anyway. That is creepy. 2mo

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CoffeeK8 I‘ll recommend this book! I‘m on the admin side now, but this one helped me be a better teacher by becoming a more focused person at work

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Rachel.Rencher @GingerAntics Yeah, I just felt creepier the more I read it. I'd never give a kid my phone number, but I do answer questions when I see them from school email or Google Classroom only. 2mo

Rachel.Rencher @CoffeeK8 Awesome! Thank you for the recommendation. 🙂 2mo

GingerAntics @Rachel.Rencher exactly! That covers you in case anyone claims anything. The class action may point to him not doing anything illegal or anything, but he did do some shady stuff. 2mo

staci.reads What do you teach? I may have some reason for you if you are secondary. 2mo

Rachel.Rencher @staci.reads I teach 8th grade! 2mo

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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 | Rafe Esquith

so-so

I really wanted to like this book and I hoped to be inspired by the author. He had me in the beginning. I was highlighting quotes and gathering ideas. As the book continued, however, I began to lose interest. This man spends 12 hours each day at school and devotes much of his weekend and vacation time at school as well. Great for him, but I can‘t live up to his expectations. Maybe this makes me just an adequate teacher, who knows?

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