Sat June 6, 2015
Reading Celebration Launching Irving Rothstein's Memoir on 40 Years of Teaching in SF
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Join Rocín Publishing to celebrate the release of It Couldn't Have Been the Pay, a memoir by Irving Rothstein with stories that cover his more than 40 years teaching in diverse San Francisco public schools.
Rothstein used storytelling and humor in some of the hardest public schools in San Francisco to help students from all backgrounds learn about themselves and each other.
His career began in 1965 at Upward Bound when his teaching mentor at San Francisco State needed a street-wise fast mouth able to break through to kids in the program. As a teacher at Woodrow Wilson in 1969 he was charged for inciting a riot at the high school championship basketball game, then made the trial a lesson for students in his civics class.
Irving taught at Opportunity II, but was transferred before his students left for Jonestown, Guyana and were lost in the tragedy there. In child care, he exchanged life lessons with kids while he taught them arts and crafts. In 1991 he was invited to Burma to teach at a makeshift university in a rebel camp during their civil war.
At Lowell High School he made storytelling an essential part of his curriculum. He retired there in 2009. Over the years, students, parents, teachers and others have called him Calabash, Matai, Kool Dude, and Monkey King, in addition to the names they called him behind his back.
The reading celebration is generously hosted by Creative Canopy, a community art studio offering a welcoming, interactive environment for people of all ages.
Rocín Publishing is an independent book publisher specializing in memoir, biography and reporting that tell essential stories about who we are.
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Rothstein used storytelling and humor in some of the hardest public schools in San Francisco to help students from all backgrounds learn about themselves and each other.
His career began in 1965 at Upward Bound when his teaching mentor at San Francisco State needed a street-wise fast mouth able to break through to kids in the program. As a teacher at Woodrow Wilson in 1969 he was charged for inciting a riot at the high school championship basketball game, then made the trial a lesson for students in his civics class.
Irving taught at Opportunity II, but was transferred before his students left for Jonestown, Guyana and were lost in the tragedy there. In child care, he exchanged life lessons with kids while he taught them arts and crafts. In 1991 he was invited to Burma to teach at a makeshift university in a rebel camp during their civil war.
At Lowell High School he made storytelling an essential part of his curriculum. He retired there in 2009. Over the years, students, parents, teachers and others have called him Calabash, Matai, Kool Dude, and Monkey King, in addition to the names they called him behind his back.
The reading celebration is generously hosted by Creative Canopy, a community art studio offering a welcoming, interactive environment for people of all ages.
Rocín Publishing is an independent book publisher specializing in memoir, biography and reporting that tell essential stories about who we are.
Join Rocín Publishing to celebrate the release of It Couldn't Have Been the Pay, a memoir by Irving Rothstein with stories that cover his more than 40 years teaching in diverse San Francisco public schools.
Rothstein used storytelling and humor in some of the hardest public schools in San Francisco to help students from all backgrounds learn about themselves and each other.
His career began in 1965 at Upward Bound when his teaching mentor at San Francisco State needed a street-wise fast mouth able to break through to kids in the program. As a teacher at Woodrow Wilson in 1969 he was charged for inciting a riot at the high school championship basketball game, then made the trial a lesson for students in his civics class.
Irving taught at Opportunity II, but was transferred before his students left for Jonestown, Guyana and were lost in the tragedy there. In child care, he exchanged life lessons with kids while he taught them arts and crafts. In 1991 he was invited to Burma to teach at a makeshift university in a rebel camp during their civil war.
At Lowell High School he made storytelling an essential part of his curriculum. He retired there in 2009. Over the years, students, parents, teachers and others have called him Calabash, Matai, Kool Dude, and Monkey King, in addition to the names they called him behind his back.
The reading celebration is generously hosted by Creative Canopy, a community art studio offering a welcoming, interactive environment for people of all ages.
Rocín Publishing is an independent book publisher specializing in memoir, biography and reporting that tell essential stories about who we are.
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Rothstein used storytelling and humor in some of the hardest public schools in San Francisco to help students from all backgrounds learn about themselves and each other.
His career began in 1965 at Upward Bound when his teaching mentor at San Francisco State needed a street-wise fast mouth able to break through to kids in the program. As a teacher at Woodrow Wilson in 1969 he was charged for inciting a riot at the high school championship basketball game, then made the trial a lesson for students in his civics class.
Irving taught at Opportunity II, but was transferred before his students left for Jonestown, Guyana and were lost in the tragedy there. In child care, he exchanged life lessons with kids while he taught them arts and crafts. In 1991 he was invited to Burma to teach at a makeshift university in a rebel camp during their civil war.
At Lowell High School he made storytelling an essential part of his curriculum. He retired there in 2009. Over the years, students, parents, teachers and others have called him Calabash, Matai, Kool Dude, and Monkey King, in addition to the names they called him behind his back.
The reading celebration is generously hosted by Creative Canopy, a community art studio offering a welcoming, interactive environment for people of all ages.
Rocín Publishing is an independent book publisher specializing in memoir, biography and reporting that tell essential stories about who we are.
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