Name: I Wish My Teacher Knew
ISBN: 9780738219141

Kyle Schwartz

Based on the "I Wish My Teacher Knew..." classroom exercise that went viral, a guide for educators and the community on how to understand children better, build trust, and learn about the challenges they face, with key issues, focus questions, and lesson plans

How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids

I Wish My Teacher Knew

Michele Papa

This book provides incredible insight for all teachers. Creating and nurturing a classroom community is more important now than it has ever been before. Schwartz uses anecdotes and first-hand experiences to supply teachers with tools that will provide opportunities for all of our students to be successful and follow their dreams. I was truly inspired by this book and will absolutely keep her advice and tools at my disposal for my future classroom.

Caroline Lewicki

I wish I could put this in the hands of everyone who works with kids and their education in any facet. As someone who is not a teacher, I still found a lot of value in this book and I can’t wait to send it to my teacher friends!

Kourtney

This book was marketed as "Parenting and Families" and being a new mom, I requested to read this to see what challenges my daughter may be faced with. My idea of what this book was about could not be more off base. While a few cards were shared (my favorite being "I wish my teacher knew that I love nachos") that was not the focus of this book. The focus of this book was on Kyle's research about how to be a better, more engaged teacher to those in less affluent areas. 

While I am not a teacher, a lot of this I could not relate to, and I found myself skipping pages. Schwartz provides real world examples of the ideas she speaks about, which was about the most interesting part of the book. The saddest part for me was that I never found the area where they talked about the kid who loved nachos, yet that card was displayed with every chapter. Nacho-loving child - I feel you! You were the only part of the book I could relate to.

Parents? Maybe skip this one. Teachers? Give it a try. This one was just not for me.

I received this e-book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I Wish My Teacher Knew How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids

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