An Innocent Mission: More Reflections of a Reading Teacher

By Glenn G. Coats

In this follow-up to "Trying to Move Mountains" (Reading Recovery Council of North America, Inc., 2004), Glenn G. Coats writes about his final years of teaching Reading Recovery at the Barley Sheaf School in Flemington, New Jersey. Coats was obsessed with getting it all down on paper, not only the stories of children who struggle with reading and writing, but also thoughts on a life spent as a teacher. There are vivid descriptions of back to school nights as well as meetings with anxious parents. Coats composed poems during the drives to and from school when his thoughts were on the students: what to teach next, which parents to call, and whose minds to change. Readers of "An Innocent Mission" will make their own personal connections to poems in this book. They will see students they are working with now or names will appear again from the past. The poems will remind teachers of the dignity and importance of their own work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692611487
• ISBN13: 9780692611487
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Pineola Publishing
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"