![]() ![]() ![]() Other Freedom Writers talking to me last week included Tiffony Jacobs and Latilla Cain. ![]() She is a home grown Long Beach product now on a national stage also and, to some degree, international.” It’s a remarkable story of how a teacher can have a tremendous impact on students. “She found ways to give students a voice. “What Erin did was really important,” Cohn said. Cohn now is executive director for the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. One of Gruwell’s strongest supporters continues to be Carl Cohn, who was superintendent for the Long Beach Unified School District when she was teaching at Wilson. The foundation also gives scholarships to high school students to go to college. Gruwell said more than 600 teachers have attended the Institute from all 50 states, along with 20 countries. Gruwell’s foundation created the Freedom Writers Institute, a development program instructing educators on how to engage and empower their students. More than half graduated with college degrees. Gruwell said all of the Freedom Writers graduated from high school and most went either to a city college or university. Much has changed for Gruwell and her former students in the last 20 years. The documentary, “Freedom Writers, Stories from an Undeclared War,” will be followed by a question-and-answer period and book signings by Gruwell and some of the Freedom Writers. Wednesday at the Crystal Cove Auditorium at University of California, Irvine. There are some parts that the students put so much detail in their entree that really puts an image in your head what they had to go through.A documentary depicting what happened before, during and after the Freedom Writers entered Room 203 at Wilson 20 years ago will be shown free from 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m. In the book it has every entree of all 150 students, which was the best part of reading it for me, just by reading every different entree made me see what they went through and how every story was different. Later on she was called back in to see what they could do and she got her students for their junior and senior year. Gruwell asked to go with the students to their junior year of high school, but got denied. They had a strong bond that they didnt want to be broken, Mrs. As the school year went on she began to grow on her students. First she started with a book that she felt that the class would relate to, second she raised enough money to get the class to go on a field trip and eat at the Marriott hotel that she works at part time. She decided to get two side jobs to help pay for the things that she needed. Noticing that each student was going through some type of hard ship she decided to get them interested in things they would like. To getting called to court for their friends murder investigation, to getting evicted from their own home. In the diaries each student has their own scary, mature, and secret life. She works her way by telling the students to write in a diary, so they can all tell their own story. They all murmur and whisper to each other saying that she will only last a month. There are many kids in her class that do not like Erin Gruwell on her first day. In The Freedom Writers Diary, one teacher is challenged to take on the students that other teachers just do not want to teach. ![]()
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