Educators

Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single, free-spirited and seeking adventure. He has a plane ticket to South America, a teaching position in a prestigious Argentine boarding school....

Maybe it was a grandparent or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching and gave you sound advice....

A heartwarming and hilarious look at life in the classroom from the teachers who host the most popular UK education podcast, Two Mr Ps in a Podcast....

A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained as a result....

With a new foreword by Bernardine Evaristo, this unforgettable memoir of a Caribbean woman who forged a new life and revolutionary career in postwar London is a rediscovered classic....

Best-selling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she's too young to even understand....

Over 20 years ago, the students in first-year teacher Erin Gruwell’s high school class in Long Beach, California, were labeled “unteachable” - but she saw past that. Instead of treating them as scores on a test, she understood that each of them had a unique story to tell....

His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk....

Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery continue to define the Black experience? These are just some of the compelling questions that animate Afropessimism....

In 1202, a 32-year-old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe....

Just Another Kid is a beautiful illustration of nurturing concern, not only for a few emotionally disturbed children, but for one woman facing a personal battle....

A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....

Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound....

A call to action over an education system that is default white, from a Black man who has spent decades being failed by it as both a teacher and student....

In The Making of Her, Clarissa Farr shares the wealth of her extensive experience to explore key questions facing parents, teachers, business leaders and managers everywhere....

Hilarious and heartwarming and utterly compelling, Hidden Lessons lets you in on the life secrets all teachers know....

This audiobook narrated by Dominican-born scholar Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life - and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds....

A chronicle of life on the resplendent island.....

Teacher Stephen Ritz shows you how, in one of the nation's poorest communities, his students thrive by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom....

In 12 intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more.... 

Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist....

In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 50....

Hopeful, hilarious musings and serious advice for new teachers from the formerly anonymous blogger behind Love, Teach....

In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

All Day recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island....