About Rafe Esquith
Rafe Esquith, author of Lighting Their Fires: Raising
Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World,
has
taught at Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles for twenty-four
years. He is the only teacher to have been awarded the president's
National Medal of the Arts. His many other honors and awards include
the American Teacher Award, Parents magazine's As You Grow
Award,
Oprah Winfrey's Use Your Life Award, and People magazine's
Heroes Among Us Award. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Barbara
Tong.
For more information, please visit www.hobartshakespeareans.org.
- Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
- Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56