วันเสาร์ที่ 14 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2555

My hero: Stephen Haff by Peter Carey

"It was a very successful teacher, but the public school system has difficulty dealing with someone who does not fit into the mold. So he went and started his own small school

Stephen Haff

runs a school in a poor country, sometimes violent, of Brooklyn, New York, called Bushwick. The area has a large immigrant community, everyone is legal, mostly Spanish speaking. The school system is not equipped to deal with these children, some of whom arrive with no English. Stephen is a graduate of Yale, in the theater. One would expect to find a relatively bright, but left the theater and chose to teach in one of these New York schools that teachers seem to fear. He taught, but also created a theater group from the ghetto, whose version of

Romeo and Juliet

finished around the world.

It was a very successful teacher, but the public school system has difficulty dealing with someone who does not fit into the mold. So he went and started his own school as a child.

Esteban is so concerned about the "transparency", the first thing I did was to install a huge plane of glass in the front wall, so the neighborhood can see exactly what is happening in this room classes of bits. Students came from more of them: some regular after school, some were older children who had left school or the school had given them up. Soon, there were about 30 students, and soon the older students helped the younger ones. The people in the streets was difficult, but it was a friendly environment, very quiet, especially reading and writing. School called "Still Waters in a storm."

Imagine the student who was at the bottom of your reading group at school, on his return after three months to the class and discovers that she is now in the top reading group. And imagine the shy little boy who does not speak English in three months that can stand in a room and read to their classmates. Children are so happy to be there, school is the best part of their lives. Stephen, meanwhile, lives on food stamps and support of others who are trying to raise money for him. It is truly a great man.



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