"becoming a catalyst for change"
ERIN GRUWELL , Educational Consultant, Motivational Speaker, & Author
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Keynote, Sunday, 8:00 - 9:00 am
Erin Gruwell helped 150 of her students - many of whom were written off by the education system - to use the power of education to write a book, graduate from high school and attend college. The journey of this teacher and her students is chronicled in Freedom Writers' Diary - How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. In her inspiring presentation, Ms. Gruwell tells the story of this extraordinary journey - from poverty and despair to hope and promise - with stops at Anne Frank's House and Auschwitz and then on to Capitol Hill and Congress. How can one person take on seemingly insurmountable problems of poverty, racism, violence? What can our classrooms provide in order to make our children safe, educated, and productive people? Erin Gruwell teaches us all how we can become "Catalysts for Change."
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