Educator and writer Erin Gruwell, the author of a book that inspired the academy award-winning movie, “Freedom Writers,” aims to be a catalyst for change. She will share her experiences as a teacher ...

The event features a keynote address by Reyes, the presumably “unteachable” former juvenile gang member who was featured in the best-selling book The Freedom Writers Diary and whose ultimate success ...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Students in Amy Sitton's English classes at Egyptian High School in Tamms know well the story of Erin Gruwell and her students. They've read her book. They watched Hilary Swank portray ...

In "Freedom Writers," Hilary Swank plays a bright-eyed, enthusiastic teacher who skips into a slummy, scummy school crawling with seemingly impenetrable gangster kids. Through psychology and bizarre ...

WATSONVILLE — In the next few years, even as soon as three months, students at Moreland Notre Dame School will be undergoing a major transition: They will be starting high school. As the school year ...

Goose Creek High School English teacher Mahwish McIntosh recently completed a special training in Long Beach, California from highly acclaimed educator Erin Gruwell, founder and president of the ...

Goose Creek High School language arts teacher Mahwish McIntosh is among 150 teachers from across the U.S. and Canada who provided a voice for Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers.

Her motivational story focused on her early high school years and her personal history of hardships, growing up in poverty, involved in and surrounded by gang violence and her triumph in overcoming ...

Gruwell wrote "The Freedom Writers Diary," the book that was made into a movie starring Hilary Swank. Gruwell, now president of the Freedom Writers Foundation, and motivational speaker Ken Johnson, ...

I am writing in response to the article Jan, 27, "Cambridge students meet former gang member." The title is very misleading. Manuel Scott, an Original Freedom Writer, was a great inspiration to our ...

"The Freedom Writers Diary" is co-authored by 150 students — once labeled "at-risk" and "unteachable" in Long Beach, California — who transform their lives through writing. Erin Gruwell, the teacher ...