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The World in Claire's Classroom documents a veteran public school teacher's extraordinary vision of teaching children how to appreciate diversity, how to respect themselves and others, and how to work together. Beginning with what the children know, Claire Olgesby moves gently with the students to discover the riches of a different culture. This exceptional documentary captures a genuine, unselfconscious learning experience.

Heidi Watts, Faculty Emerita, Education Department
Antioch New England Graduate School

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Charles Greenberg, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
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A most impressive, and moving, demonstration of how a white teacher in a white community can give her children a truly multicultural education.
Courtney B. Cazden
Harvard Graduate School of Education

For teacher educators, this video is worth a hundred texts, and that's much more than a thousand words.
Charlie Rathbone
College of Education and Social Services
University of Vermont

. . . Claire is the teacher we all should have had, the one we wish upon our children -- even-keeled, nurturing, humorous, determined, creative, and spectacularly committed after 45 years in the primary school trenches. What we witness is a classroom full of innovation, liveliness, and love. . . Recommended for public libraires and academic collections serving teaching programs.
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