They encourage students to find their own and present it to the world. “I wanted my students to understand: This is what happens when there is systematic hate and when people stand idly by. Freedom Writer teachers believe that everyone has his own story. “It takes a passionate teacher to create a safe place.” The hate that Gruwell and her students lived through each day was a firsthand example of the political climate. This ambitious drama is based on the true story of an idealistic teacher who took on the challenge of educating a diverse group of high school students. “Our story has roots in what is often times great pain, when people are marginalized,” says Gruwell. Her students named their movement in honor of the 1960s Freedom Riders, and the moniker was meant to encourage action. “This is what the educational journey can look like when there’s the possibility for change.” Inspired by historyįor Gruwell, to be a teacher is to be an advocate for young people. To Gruwell, the story expressed in the film supports a call to action and is a “movement to encourage other teachers to give their students a voice,” she says. As the film, which explores what being a teacher truly means, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, Gruwell discusses the continuation of the movement her students started.
Erin Gruwell is now a visiting professor at California State University, Long Beach, where some of her students are Freedom Writers.Teacher and author Erin Gruwell was the inspiration behind the film “Freedom Writers,” starring Hillary Swank. The authors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to The Tolerance Education Foundation, an organization set up to pay for the Freedom Writers’ college tuition. With powerful entries from the students’ own diaries and a narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. She has also been referred to as the 'mother of modern self-editing. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated from high school and are now attending college. Gruwell, Erin Erin Gruwell (born August 15, 1969) is a well-known American teacher noted for her innovative teaching style, which resulted in the release of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (1999). The book is made up entirely of their journals, which were written with encouragement from their teacher Erin Gruwell.
Secretary of Education Richard Riley-and educationally. by Alana Domingo The Freedom Writers Diary is a moving account from students in a high school class in Long Beach, California. With funds raised by a “Read-a-thon for Tolerance,” they arranged for Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who sheltered the Frank family, to visit them in California, where she declared that Erin Gruwell’s students were “the real heroes.” Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition-appearances on “Prime Time Live” and “All Things Considered,” coverage in People magazine, a meeting with U.S. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers” in homage to the civil rights activists “The Freedom Riders.” So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust-only to be met by uncomprehending looks. Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.Īs an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students.
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