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Teacher Of The Year
Teacher Of The Year
Teacher Of The Year
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Edward Scott Ibur uses brazen and cutting satire to relay the story of a middle school teacher clinging to his career and dignity during a yaer spent in professional purgatory. 7th grade English teacher, Scott Eisenberg, bears the brunt of his principal’s wrath through lousy evaluations and personal humiliation after a handful of his students fail the critical year-end state assessment. Given the option of termination or probation, the teacher agrees to work with three interventionists (shadows): an acrophobic Nepalese Sherpa, an inflexible retired army general and a streetwise hip-hop DJ who lays down the novel’s diverse musical soundtrack featuring more than 100 songs. Eisenberg recounts a year spent with these unlikely saviors both in and out of the classroom. Similar to the stylings of Thank You for Smoking, Catch 22, Lucky Jim— Teacher of the Year and is a character driven novel about a teacher ensnared by No Child Left Behind and the ramifications of standardized testing pressure.

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Release dateJun 19, 2012
ISBN9780985618674
Teacher Of The Year
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Edward Scott Ibur

A St. Louis native and middle school English teacher for the past twenty-one years, Edward Scott Ibur founded and co-teaches the Gifted Writers Project for Middle & High School in which more than 1,600 young writers have participated. In addition to wielding pen and pointer, Ibur’s professional drumming in rock and world music bands has proven invaluable in writing Teacher of the Year, a novel featuring an eclectic array of songs and musical genres. Edward Scott Ibur and his wife, painter Anne Molasky Ibur, have two daughters. Teacher Of The Year is Ibur’s first novel.

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