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This is a warm and moving account of how a teacher made a safe yet stimulating place for young children to play and grow (and learn). Sydney teaches respect for all people, and by the end of the year the four-year-old children not only read and communicated clearly, but cared for each other as well. You will meet Millie, who arrived almost inarticulate and learned to love language; Ivan, who started out breaking everything he could reach, to get back at a world that had brutalized him from birth. He learned to curl up with a book and be gentle; and the twins, Deena and Dinah, who taught Sydney about their home- grown support systems. Sydney thinks critically about American education based on her experience. She tells us many ways of showing respect for children and urges teachers to listen more carefully to children and their parents.

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Sydney Gurewitz Clemens has been devoted to child advocacy, children's rights and children of prisoners for more than half a century. She is an internationally known keynote speaker, author, and teacher of adults and children and a former NAEYC editorial board member. Her second book, Pay Attention to the Children, was about the work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner, and how the New Zealand teacher's work influenced her own. In 2005 she was honored by the Board of Supervisors of the City of San Francisco for her contributions to the field of early childhood edu-cation, and to the San Francisco community. She has been a civil rights worker, studying non-violence in 1960 with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1962, and was a delegate to the 1971 White House Conference on the Family, which led to the Americans with Disabilities Act. She is especially interested in the work of the educators of Reggio Emilia, the subject of her 2017 book, Seeing Young Children with New Eyes: What We've Learned from Reggio Emilia about Children and Ourselves.

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