Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method. She inspired her students to be successful by giving them guidance and being the role model they needed. The Freedom Writers Diary is a 1999 book written by the Freedom Writers with intros by Erin Gruwell. It is the basis of the 2007 movie Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank.
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Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method. She inspired her students to be successful by giving them guidance and being the role model they needed. The Freedom Writers Diary is a 1999 book written by the Freedom Writers with intros by Erin Gruwell. It is the basis of the 2007 movie Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank. Gruwell has written an autobiographical account, Teach with Your Heart, published around the same time as the movie’s release.
She is the subject of the 2019 PBS Documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart. She has also written a book about her experience, Teach With Your Heart: How I Learned to Love Myself and My Students, published in 2010. She currently lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband and three children. She also has a son, a daughter and a son-in-law who live in New York City.
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