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Yo Miz! Paperback – March 31, 2015

by Elizabeth Rose (Author)

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What’s really going on in our public school classrooms? Good question. • Journalists are not allowed in… • Teachers risk punishment if they speak out… • School administrators will only share the good stuff… • Most lawmakers? Clueless. Yo Miz! has the answer. Yo Miz! is the seriously funny memoir of an unconventional “edu-tainer,” ejected from her home school and assigned to teach at 25 Manhattan public high schools in one wacky year. Yo Miz! is about the kids. From el barrio to Wall Street, they’re all present…speaking in their own voices. Yo Miz! is a remarkable odyssey through the largest public school system in the US. Want a front row seat in class? Then Yo Miz! = required reading. Fa real!

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"...hilarious memoir--journey through the NYC public schools. Anyone who has ever taught, or had any interaction with public education should read this book. Rose caroms from well-resourced high-achieving schools to crumbling castles of chaos and neglect, begging for bathroom keys from assistant principals, commiserating with the other lost and floating teachers, & connecting with the students as she improvises in every subject from math to ESL. It's a rollicking--and enraging--picaresque romp. Imagine a Daily Show correspondent taking a job as a substitute teacher." Molly Turner, author.

"Yo Miz! should be required reading for all teachers, parents, people who want to be teachers, people who want to be parents. School administrators (in our dreams), legislators (again dreaming), let's add politicians too, why not? Pretty much everyone. It is a funny, sad, beautiful book that ultimately will make you mad as hell." Katherine Hall Page, author, Faith Fairchild mysteries.

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"A teacher's memoir of a meandering but deeply purposeful career.

The author's voice is punchy, comedic, and even whimsical--unsurprising for someone who stages one-woman off-Broadway shows in her spare time. Her book never devolves into an unabashed lament. In fact, her recollection is a testament to the fact that, even under the most unpropitious circumstances, learning is possible under a talented, committed teacher.

A funny, inspiring remembrance."

It's always tricky business trying to compare great talents of different eras.....think Babe Ruth-Barry Bonds, Mark Twain-Will Rogers, John Huston-Dustin Hoffman. With that said, this age-old observer of the NYC schools scene has no problem going out on the proverbial limb in arguing that however eloquent and entertaining Bel Kaufman was in her 1965 classic "Up the Down Staircase," Rose's "Yo Miz" dives so deeply and precipitously into the agonizing world of dysfunctional schools that, in comparison, UTDS ends up looking more like "Tea and Sympathy." Harold Saltzman, author "Just A Teacher"

Elizabeth Rose is a rotating substitute teacher in NYC. Having lost her permanent teaching position, she rotates to 25 schools in all parts of the city. Elizabeth takes everything in stride: grouchy secretaries, bossy principals, rediculous assignments -- she just handles them. She has a hysterical sense of humor - tears will roll down your face, a huge heart - you'll wish she taught your child. Oh & yes she wrote and was starring in an off Broadway play. @rhondareads

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When I was ejected from my home school after 10 productive years there as a teaching artist, then teacher and raising over $300,000 for technology, I was informed that the NYC DOE planned to send me (and 2500 other teachers) to a different school every week to be a substitute teacher. At first, I thought I'd resign and go back to my freelance days as a performing songwriter, musician and coach. However, during the second week of the school year I was sitting in a teachers' lounge (at Baruch College Campus High School) when I heard a voice inside my head saying, "If you don't stick around and write this story, you're wack."

Think about it. I'm a writer. The NYC DOE is going to send me to a new school each week. Not as an evaluator or fund raiser or in any prestigious position...but as a "lowly" substitute teacher. Nobody will know that I'm writing about it. Everyone will just behave "normally" - whatever that means. So I can't leave. I have been given an assignment by the cosmos: go there and write about it.

So I did. Herewith, "Yo Miz!"

As George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

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Paperback: 420 pages
Publisher: By Any Other Name Publishing; 1 edition (March 31, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0990439216
ISBN-13: 978-0990439219
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
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Average Customer Review: 17 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,092,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Michael Goodfellow

You need more than a good teacher

August 22, 2015

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Thoroughly depressing. No matter how much attention many of these students get from a dedicated teacher like the author, they are years behind. Long before they pass the NY state Regents exam they need to graduate, they will be tired of all the meaningless drill. Pass the test? They can't even understand the questions.

An entertaining read if you ignore the picture she paints. And after the first quarter of it, the rest is just more of the same.

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Daisy

Five Stars

September 12, 2015

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Very interesting book and it helps you to know 25 schools all in one book.

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Kimble

Loved this book

August 24, 2015

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Loved this book. So much humor to cut through how depressing the story is at some schools. Quick, easy, compelling read.

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October 19, 2015

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Great read with tears and laughs!

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Showing you, not telling you, the state of the NYC school system

June 1, 2015

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It's important to understand what this book is and what it isn't so that you're not disappointed.

WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK:

- YOU LOVE AUTHORS WHO SHOW, DON'T TELL: Elizabeth Rose (the author) is a master at following the age-old advice that English teachers drill into their student's brains: SHOW, DON'T TELL. She almost never steps back and explicitly talks about the challenges (and solutions) to NYC's public school system. Instead, she feeds you anecdote after anecdote, as you follow a day-in-the-life of a substitute teacher who is tossed around 25 different schools in one year. If you don't like authors trying to directly convince you or preach to you, and if you like to just hear the evidence and decide things for yourself, then this book is for you.

- YOU LIKE BOOKS WITH HUMOR. Be prepared to laugh, smile, and giggle. Rose is an Off-Broadway performer with a strong NYC voice and attitude. Enjoy it.

- YOU WANT MANY REAL LIFE ANECDOTES. This entire book is jam packed with anecdotes! You'll read about a teenager who murdered a relative, kids who don't know what continent the USA is in, and Muslim children whose first year at school is right after September 11, 2001. You'll see fights in the library, rude students, and petty administrators. Rose rarely reflects on each story or analyzes them deeply; she leaves that for you, the reader, to do.

- YOU WANT A GREAT WORD TO DOLLAR RATIO. This is a long book (421 pages). For $6 on the Kindle, you'll have 8+ hours of reading enjoyment for just $6. But it's important that you want a ton of diary-type stories and not an analytical review of NYC schools.

WHO SHOULD NOT READ THIS BOOK:

- YOU WANT A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NYC SCHOOL SYSTEM. You won't get it. Yes, Rose taught in 25 schools and she describes them through her encounters. But if you want to know stats like dropout rates, forget it. If you want read an extensive debate about the NYC curriculum, it's not here.

- YOU WANT A SERIOUS BOOK WITHOUT SWEARING. Although it's serious topic, Rose has a lighthearted style of writing. Students swear too - and often.

- YOU WANT A BOOK ABOUT AMERICA'S SCHOOL SYSTEM. No, this is just about the NYC school system.

CONCLUSION: For its genre (diary-style memoir), Yo Miz! is fantastic. Rose illustrates the state of NYC schools through her wild year in 25 of them. She never preaches to you, nor pontificates about solutions. She just tells it like it is by taking you in the classroom and seeing it. Although Rose is peppy in her writing, it's depressing how bad NYC's public schools are. The non-fiction, practical guy in me would have liked her to use the last chapter to reflect more broadly on NYC school system and what can be done to fix it. However, I guess she felt that's another story for another book.

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DI Booklover

Required Reading

April 24, 2015

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Yo Miz should be required reading for all teachers, parents, people who want to be teachers, people who want to be parents. School administrators (in our dreams), legislators (again dreaming), let's add politicians too, why not? Pretty much everyone. It is a funny, sad, beautiful book that ultimately will make you mad as hell.
Elizabeth Rose is a voice to be reckoned with and we need more educators like Yo Miz speaking out!

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Great Read!

December 27, 2015

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As a public school elementary teacher who has been in the system for the past 17 years, it is so refreshing to hear the voices of actual students and teachers who have actually TAUGHT in public schools, rather than the reams of nonsense that come from the supposed educational "experts" who rarely spend any time in classrooms. It proves how much we really need those of us who are/were teachers to step up and share our own unique perspectives and experiences in the face of public school shaming and teacher bashing. The voices of the kids really come through so strongly as well as Elizabeth Rose's honesty and compassion. I also appreciated the humor and zaniness of her telling which reminded me of many of my own early experiences in the DOE. Highly recommended!

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Dee LongTop Contributor: Cooking

An Entertaining Peek Inside the New York City School System

August 25, 2015

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Elizabeth Rose decided to turn the lemons of being assigned as a permanent rotating substitute teacher into the refreshing lemonade that is this very entertaining book. Rose gives her readers a very fascinating look at the world of a school teacher in the 21st century, highlighting the diversity of challenges and students she encounters, some funny, some poignant, some brilliant and some sad, as she travels through 25 different NYC schools in the course of what she describes as "1 wacky year."

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Barry M. Scheinfeld

Yo Adrian...........

A collection of warm, witty, interesting stories by a mainstream teacher with personality plus , pushed by circumstance to being an outsider , and as an intelligent outsider ,...Read more

Published on December 8, 2015

Stephanie Chandler

Loved the care and compassion that was always shown for students

I was so excited to read Yo Miz. What a timely subject to be writing about! I think a story like this is needed and necessary in our current climate, especially the issue of...Read more

Published on September 14, 2015

Scott Freiman

Yo Miz -- A Five Star read about our broken educational system and how one teacher can make a difference.

Yo Miz was a very enjoyable read. I found the stories fascinating and eye-opening. Rose's patience in dealing with the kids — and administrators — is truly awe-inspiring.Read more

Published on July 29, 2015

Hal Urban

A great and entertaining read for both educators and non-educators!

This is an amazing book written by a caring and dedicated teacher who's also a gifted writer. There were times when I laughed out loud, when I got a tear in my eye, and when I...Read more

Published on July 9, 2015

Brewster Smith

Elizabeth Rose provides an insiders look into the state of our education system today and it's not a pretty picture. Thanks to E

Before reading this book I always imagined that public schools today must be very similar if not the same as when I attended public school. I was so wrong.Read more

Published on May 27, 2015

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The joy at creating a wonderful learning environment out of sheer ...

What a truly eye-opening book. The author's fun-filled yet passionate personality springs out of every line.Read more

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