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Spouse: Scott Casey [1] (m. 1990; div. 1994) Erin Gruwell (born August 15, 1969) is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which ...
Erin Gruwell is the woman who began the Freedom Writers and compiled her students' stories into The Freedom Writers Diary. She started teaching in the fall of 1994 at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. [4] In interviews, she has said that she thinks she is the one who changed the most.
[23] [24] In 2007, Swank starred in Freedom Writers, about a real-life teacher, Erin Gruwell. Many reviews of her performance were positive, with one critic noting that she "brings credibility" to the role, [25] and another stating that her performance reaches a "singular lack of artifice, stripping herself back to the bare essentials". [26]
On Erin Gruwell’s first day as a high school English teacher, she faced a classroom of 150 “at risk” freshmen. Most of these kids, statistically, were going to fail. They were tough, their ...
It is based on the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell and students who compiled the book out of real diary entries about their lives that they wrote in their English class at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace.
Freedom Writers Foundation, a charitable organization started by Erin Gruwell and former students of Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California; The Freedom Writers Diary, a 1999 book of diaries written by the Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell; basis for the film; Freedom Writers, a soundtrack album from the film
Spouse: Nini Moore Horn: Children: 2: Alma mater: Stanford University ... Erin Gruwell 29% Peter Mathews 26% Gerrie Schipske 32% 85,498 48% Steve Horn: 87,266 48%
Erin Foster’s new Netflix rom-com, “Nobody Wants This,” is based on her real-life love cross-cultural story with her husband, entertainment executive Simon Tikhman.