ABSTRACT
This book presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book describes a form of teaching in which intense feelings are ever present; undergirding the teacher's every action. It devotes to explicating the distinctive functions performed by stars, and the ideology that undergirds their behavior. For beginners, to whom the book primarily addresses, the pressures, intensity, and emotional commitments are beyond belief and almost beyond description. Completing a traditional program of teacher education as preparation for working in this emotional cauldron is like preparing to swim the English Channel by doing laps in the university pool. For the children and youth in poverty from diverse cultural backgrounds who attend urban schools, having effective teachers is a matter of life and death. Completing their first year as a fully responsible teacher in an urban school has nothing to do with having been "successful" in a college preparation program.
