coe-staff: Book recommendation!

[Deanna Belcher]

Dear Colleagues,

If I may be so bold, I would like to recommend My Life In School by Thomas Sobol, both for your personal reading and for students in your classes.  Below is what I wrote for an annotated bibliography for my own class, followed by the link.  I also have been in contact with Tom and his wife Harriet and can put you in touch with them easily.  They've had to self-publish the book because, though agents and publishers were interested in its content, they felt that without Tom to publicize it – he is ill and can't do a book tour – it wouldn't sell enough.  I won't give you my personal feelings about that, as it typically involves some profanity.  I am biased of course, as I read it as a former student hearing the voice of a mentor in my head, but I can also confidently recommend the book to you as a colleague in the education realm.  By all means, let me know if you have any questions, or if you want more information.

Best wishes,
Deanna
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Deanna Chappell Belcher
Director, Service-Learning Program
College of Education
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Written by one of Deanna’s teachers and mentors from Teachers College Columbia University, this book shares personal and professional reminisces of an educator and educational leader, and illustrates a life-long effort to reconcile the two.  Tom Sobol’s journey from working-class schoolboy during the Depression to the highest levels of education leadership and back to the classroom as a teacher of other educators is chronicled in his own honest, reflective, and readable style.  Tom’s views about education are larger than the profession and not what we usually hear. I think you will respond to his intelligence, honesty and humanity. There's a lot to talk about and a lot people can bring to the book. Tom leaves space for others to feel and think.

http://mylifeinschool.com
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