Erin Gruwell

The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide

by The Freedom Writers & Erin Gruwell

Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers’ guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.

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Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers

by Erin Gruwell

In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks...

The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

by The Freedom Writers & Erin Gruwell

Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students–whose...

Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell

by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers & Anna Quindlen

“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more soul-satisfying? These...