Rafe Esquith, the only teacher to EVER receive the National Medal ofArts, Oprah Winfrey's Use Your Life Award, and the Compassion in ActionAward from the Dalai Lama, will be at the South Broadway CulturalCenter with some of his thespian 5th graders.

In his firstbook, NYT bestseller Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: The Methods andMadness Inside Room 56, readers were introduced to his amazing andinspiring classroom techniques. Lighting Their Fires: RaisingExtraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World(Viking, $24.99), Rafe offers parents and teachers techniques forraising great kids. Rafe and 7 of his students, who will perform someShakespeare for us, are visiting from LA.

This event is free, but if you prepurchase the new book from Bookworks, VIP seating is available.

Sponsoredby the Albuquerque/Bernalillo Public Library System, AlbuquerqueFederated Teachers & the UNM Education Department.

Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World (Hardcover)

By Rafe Esquith

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780670021086
Availability: Special Order – Price & Availability May Change
Published: Viking Adult, 8/2009

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