"Bravo, FlixAcademy!"
- Rafe Esquith
Winner, American Teacher Award, National Medal of Arts
Author of "There Are No Shortcuts", "Real Talk for Real Teachers", "Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire" and "Lighting Their Fire". Mr. Esquith has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and PBS' POV: The Hobart Shakespeareans. Teaching in Los Angeles at one of the nation's largest inner-city grade schools, Hobart Elementary, Esquith leads his class of fifth graders through an uncompromising curriculum of English, mathematics, geography and literature. He inspires them with cross-country trips to learn history first-hand. And at the end of the semester, every student performs in a full-length Shakespeare play, with guests such as actors Ian McKellen and Michael York. Esquith is a film buff and has a Film Club, borrowing from the class library of videos and finding life lessons in screenplays.
- Rafe Esquith
Winner, American Teacher Award, National Medal of Arts
Author of "There Are No Shortcuts", "Real Talk for Real Teachers", "Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire" and "Lighting Their Fire". Mr. Esquith has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and PBS' POV: The Hobart Shakespeareans. Teaching in Los Angeles at one of the nation's largest inner-city grade schools, Hobart Elementary, Esquith leads his class of fifth graders through an uncompromising curriculum of English, mathematics, geography and literature. He inspires them with cross-country trips to learn history first-hand. And at the end of the semester, every student performs in a full-length Shakespeare play, with guests such as actors Ian McKellen and Michael York. Esquith is a film buff and has a Film Club, borrowing from the class library of videos and finding life lessons in screenplays.
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- Michael Petrilli
Executive VP, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, contributor to its Flypaper blog and weekly Education Gadfly newsletter. Author of The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parent's Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools, published in 2012. Research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and executive editor of Education Next. Petrilli has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg View, and Wall Street Journal and has been a guest on NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, and Fox, as well as several National Public Radio programs, including All Things Considered, On Point, and the Diane Rehm Show. He is author, with Frederick M. Hess, of No Child Left Behind: A Primer. Petrilli helped to create the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement, the Policy Innovators in Education Network, and Young Education Professionals.
- Michael Petrilli
Executive VP, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, contributor to its Flypaper blog and weekly Education Gadfly newsletter. Author of The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parent's Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools, published in 2012. Research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and executive editor of Education Next. Petrilli has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg View, and Wall Street Journal and has been a guest on NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, and Fox, as well as several National Public Radio programs, including All Things Considered, On Point, and the Diane Rehm Show. He is author, with Frederick M. Hess, of No Child Left Behind: A Primer. Petrilli helped to create the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement, the Policy Innovators in Education Network, and Young Education Professionals.