RAFE ESQUITH & STUDENTS
Sunday, January 28 at 12:30 p.m. at Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue

Co-presented with The SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A special midday Sunday program this is, featuring one of this country's most noted schoolteachers, Rafe Esquith, and a group of his grade-school students, up from central Los Angeles. Rafe Esquith, featured in the award-winning POV documentary, The Hobart Shakespeare, is here as the author of the inspiring new book, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 (Viking). "Esquith might be the only public school teacher to be honored by both Oprah Winfrey and the Dalai Lama; he is the only school teacher ever to receive the president's National Medal of the Arts. For the past 25 years, Esquith has taught fifth graders...While his goals are inspiring, he's also practical—most chapters include affordable, how-to directions for a variety of his most effective classroom activities..." - Publishers Weeky. "Politicians, burbling over how to educate the underclass, would do well to stop by Rafe Esquith's fifth grade class as it mounts its annual Shakespeare play. Sound like a grind? Listen to the peals of laughter bouncing off the classroom walls." - Time. Also part of this program will be students performing music, Shakespeare, and more. Not to be missed. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Seattle Public Central Library is located at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison and Spring). For more information, please see www.spl.org.

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