ABSTRACT
Sam M. Intrator is assistant professor of education and child study at Smith College. The son of two retired New York City public school teachers, he was a high-school teacher and administrator in Brooklyn, New York, Vermont, and California. He was awarded a W. K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship and was named a Distinguished Teacher by the White Commission on Presidential Scholars. He is the author of Tuned in and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom (2003) and editor of Stories of the Courage to Teach: Honoring the Teacher’s Heart (2002) and Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003).
