<p>Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers&#8217; guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.<br>In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned about Erin Gruwell and her amazing students in <i>The Freedom Writers Diary,</i> Erin Gruwell and a team of teacher experts have written <i>The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide</i>, a book that will encourage teachers and students to expand the walls of their classrooms and think outside the box.<br>Here Gruwell goes in-depth and shares her unconventional but highly successful educational strategies and techniques (all 150 of her students who had been deemed &#8220;un-teachable&#8221; graduated from Wilson High School): from her very successful &#8220;toast for change&#8221; (an exercise in which Gruwell exhorted her students to leave the past behind and start fresh) to writing exercises that focus on the importance of journal writing, vocabulary, and more.<br>In an easy-to-use format with black-and-white illustrations, this teachers&#8217; guide will become the essential go-to manual for teachers who want to make a difference in their pupils&#8217; lives and create students who will make a difference.</p>