Bestselling author (Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire) and renowned educator, Rafe Esquith, will be hosting a special speaking & signing engagement for his new book, Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World, at Gillispie School in La Jolla on Tuesday, August 25 at 6:00pm. The event will also feature a special 30-minute performance by a group of Rafe's students that all parents, teachers, and librarians won't want to miss!

In his extraordinary book, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, readers were introduced to Rafe Esquith and his extraordinary students in Hobart Elementary School's Room 56. Using his amazing and inspiring classroom techniques, Esquith has helped thousands of children learn how to maximize their potential. In Lighting Their Fires, Esquith shows that children aren't born extraordinary; they become that way as a result of parents and teachers who instill values that serve them not just in school, but for the rest of their lives.

Framed by a class trip to a major league baseball game, Lighting Their Fires moves inning by inning through concepts that help children build character and develop enriching lives. Whether he is highlighting the importance of time management or offering a step-by-step discussion of how children can become good decision makers, Esquith shows how parents can equip their kids with all the tools they need to find success and have fun in the process. Using examples from classic films and great books, he stresses the value of sacrifice, the importance of staying true to oneself, and the danger that television can pose to growing young minds.  Lighting Their Fires is that rarest of education books: one that explains not just how to make our children great students, but how to make them thoughtful and honorable people.

Lighting Their Fires (Hardcover)

By Rafe Esquith

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780670021086
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 08/01/2009

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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire (Hardcover)

By Rafe Esquith

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780670038152
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 02/01/2007

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