A collection of media surrounding The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them, also expanded to include the non-profit Freedom Writers Foundation and the movie adaptation Freedom Writers.
Ideas to add on
- To what extent does one’s background shape their perceptiveness and impression to education?
- What previous opinions held were challenged when going through this?
- If you were in Erin Gruwell’s shoes, what would you have done and why?
- Educators are still human — behind any façades they hide as educators, they have their own lives that many students don’t see.
- When the system is built against educators (e.g. having to reach seniority to teach a junior class), how much should educators push back and fight the system?