num_pages: 208
description: The New York Times bestselling author of Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire shares his proven methods for creating compassionate childrenDuring twenty-five years of teaching at Hobart Elementary School in inner city Los Angeles Rafe Esquith has helped thousands of children maximize their potentialand became the only teacher in history to receive the president's National Medal of Arts. In Lighting Their Fires  Esquith translates the inspiring methods from Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire for parents. Using lessons framed by a class trip to a Dodgers game he moves inning by inning through concepts that explain how to teach children to be thoughtful and honorable peopleas well as successful studentsand to have fun in the process.
language: English
title: Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
publisher: Viking