Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year, Expanded Edition

A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esme is the exuberant diary of Esme Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esme—as she prefers to be called—does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousi More »