Ladies and Gentleman, I have a very special episode for you today. My guest is Erin Gruwell. If you haven’t seen the movie The Freedom Writers…STOP. Turn your computer off and go watch it immediately. Then come straight back and watch this interview.
Erin is a brilliant mind who took kids from disadvantaged backgrounds and helped them integrate into the classroom and love learning again. It shows the struggles each of them goes through and we touch on this in the interview, but most of the kids she was teaching didn’t think they would make it past 18…(scary!)
Erin is the founder and head of The Freedom Writers Foundation (see what they’re up to here) and one of the most phenomoal teachers in today’s world.
I love the movement and what the FWF movement stands for.
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