Brendan Halpin

Losing My Faculties (eBook, ePUB)

A Teacher's Story

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist. Unique among teaching memoirs, Losing My Faculties is not the story of a heroic teacher who transforms the lives of his hardbitten students; rather, it's the inspirational and often unpretty truth about people who choose to get up ridiculously early day after day and year after year to go stand in front of teenagers. It's also a rarely-seen, all-access view of both suburban and urban education, including the ugly truth behind the mythology at a much-hyped charter school.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Distribution
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504009690
• Artikelnr.: 42540431

Autorenporträt

Brendan Halpin is a teacher and the author of books for adults and young adults including the Alex Award-winning Donorboy, Forever Changes, and the Junior Library Guild Selection Shutout. He is also the coauthor of Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom, with Emily Franklin, and Notes from the Blender, with Trish Cook, both of which the American Library Association named to its Rainbow List. Halpin's writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Rosie and Best Life magazines, and the New York Times' "Modern Love" column. Halpin is a vegetarian, a fan of vintage horror movies, and an avid tabletop gamer. He lives with his wife, Suzanne, their three children, and their dog in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.