Teaching Stories - Paperback

by Judy Logan (Author)

When nearly everyone else is telling kids no-"No, do it this way . . . No, I don't want to hear what you think . . . No, sit down and pay attention"-Judy Logan says yes, to a child's passions, interests, hopes. The results have been newsmaking; her students blossom academically, winning essay contests, prizes, and entrance to the country's best colleges. Armed with a strong sense of who they are and what they think, her students also blossom personally-resisting peer pressure, understanding racial and gender stereotypes, and connecting to the world they live in.

Author Biography

Judy Logan taught middle school at inner-city public schools in San Francisco for thirty-one years. For twenty-four of those years, she was a teacher in the school where she was once a student, and which her mother, aunts, uncles, sister, and cousin once attended. From her second-floor classroom window she could see the hospital where she was born, her grandmother's home where her mother first brought her as an infant, the back of the house in which she grew up, and the roof of the house in which she now lives. She has also traveled extensively and has completed courses in women's studies in Kenya, India, Israel, Greece, and Hawaii. She was a mentor teacher for nine years in San Francisco working on multicultural and gender-inclusive curriculum. She is a consultant for the National Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) Program and the Minnesota SEED Program. Now retired from teaching for sixteen years, she works as an educational consultant and lives in San Francisco with two kitties and three rabbits.