Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year, Expanded Edition
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A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell’s first year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé—as she prefers to be called—does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. Her diary opens a window into a real-life classroom from a teacher’s perspective. While battling bureaucrats, gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this gifted young woman reveals what it takes to be an exceptional teacher.
Heroine to thousands of parents and educators, Esmé now shares more of her ingenious and yet down-to-planet approaches to the classroom in a supplementary guide to help new teachers hit the ground running. As significant and iconoclastic as when it was first published, Educating Esmé is a classic, as is Madame Esmé herself.
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Esmé Raji Codell has written a amusing, hip diary filled with one-liners and unadorned thoughts that speak volumes about the raw, emotional life of a first-year teacher. Like Ally McBeal in the classroom, the miniskirted and idealistic Codell sometimes fantasizes her career is a musical. Her inner-city Chicago elementary school fades to black as the lunch lady strikes an arabesque or a struggling student performs the dance of the dying swan, all set to her interior soundtrack. (Tina Turner’s “Funkier Than a Mosquita’s Tweeter” echoes whenever her thought-stealing, dimwitted principal harangues her.) She’s a rash, petite, white lady who roller-skates through the halls and insists that her fifth-graders call her “Madame Esmé.” But it’s not all fun and games: she introduces us to children who fling their desks and make an apology in tears, and at one point, after reporting a disruptive student to her mother, who subsequently thrashes the young girl, she dry heaves into her classroom’s trash can.
Codell’s 24-year-ancient voice is loud and clear (“Serious yucky out,” she writes after the scorned principal hugs her), though, on the principle that kids say the darnedest things, she regularly simply repeats their comments for comic effect. She’s got sass, maybe too much self-confidence at times, and though there’s no deep introspection in Educating Esmé, you’ll be convinced her 10-year-ancient charges emerge the better for knowing her. –Jodi Mailander Farrell
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