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Title: A self-celebrating bit of hype
Review: I teach fifth graders. The job takes restraint, patience, constancy, dedication, knowledge of craft, intuition and, yes, creativity. But not the sort of self-celebrating creativity for which Esmé Codell so lavishly congratulates herself in this book.Organizing your classroom around the wonderfulness of the teacher is, at best, a selfish way to teach. At worst you risk some very dangerous boundary issues, drawing your students into your own vortex of ego.From a reader's standpoint, it's clear that, ahem, Madame Esmé has some gifts as a writer. But her fatal self-absorption, her boundless appetite for her own spunky wonderfulness, makes the overall experience nauseating.I'm appalled that this book is so popular. Someone give this woman a cookie and a mirror so she can go absorb herself indefinitely and not pollute teaching.
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