Before Erin Gruwell could even begin sharing her life story Friday at Back Bay High School, students hugged her as they walked into the campus auditorium in Costa Mesa. The UC Irvine alumna shared how ...

WATERVLIET, N.Y. – Watervliet ninth-graders joined their peers from the Cohoes, Lansingburgh and Waterford-Halfmoon school districts this week for an inspirational message shared by acclaimed educator ...

Educator and writer Erin Gruwell, the author of a book that inspired the academy award-winning movie, “Freedom Writers,” aims to be a catalyst for change. She will share her experiences as a teacher ...

Alison takes educator Erin Gruwell to the classroom to find out how she inspires students. Erin Gruwell has received a number of accolades for her expertise in teaching. The impact she's had in the ...

Erin Gruwell walked into a classroom full of students no one believed in. Many were involved in gangs, violence, and had already been written off by the system. Even other teachers told her they would ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- Teacher Jenni Currie didn't know when she took her students at Vigor High School on a field trip to see the movie "Freedom Writers" in 2007 just how much it would affect her life and ...

The 150 "unteachable" students who Erin Gruwell taught in Room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach aren't teens fighting violence, racism, poverty and gangs anymore. They're adults now.

''I'm a sucker for true stories — they're stranger than fiction," Hilary Swank has said about playing educator Erin Gruwell in Freedom Writers. Yet Swank's film feels less like a strange truth than ...

Erin Gruwell, like so many teachers, felt as if she had been brainwashed to teach to the test rather than to individual students. She told Charleston County educators Wednesday to remember that it’s ...