Becoming a Catalyst for Change: Erin Gruwell at TEDxChapmanU

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

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  • @SSM654
    @SSM654 4 года назад +88

    She's such a light. This woman is meant to be a teacher and change peoples lives.

  • @SithVisualTV
    @SithVisualTV 10 лет назад +313

    Erin older Sister, Mrs. Cossey, was my 3rd grade teacher and she was exactly the same way as her younger sister. I'm actually going to have lunch with Erin soon. Really excited about it.

    • @rluc3634
      @rluc3634 5 лет назад +5

      Amazing movie
      Amazing woman/ teacher

    • @islambennani6782
      @islambennani6782 5 лет назад +3

      Woow so lucky , i hope i could have the chance too to meet her and have a little chat with her

    • @catedoge3206
      @catedoge3206 3 года назад

      nice.

    • @lisamartinez3332
      @lisamartinez3332 3 года назад

      What city did her sister teach in

    • @SithVisualTV
      @SithVisualTV 3 года назад +3

      @@lisamartinez3332 Ontario, Ca

  • @PoppyHapalopus
    @PoppyHapalopus 8 лет назад +196

    We just saw Freedom Writers (the movie) in class and it was so unbelievable that I had to google it to be sure that it was based on a true story. I'm in awe at the work of Erin Gruwell!

  • @TheScottysolo
    @TheScottysolo 5 лет назад +112

    I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Erin, and many of the original students this past weekend. I returned deeply touched, motivated, inspired, and awed by the courage and absolute unconditional love by these beautiful souls...

    • @rluc3634
      @rluc3634 5 лет назад

      Wow amazing
      Thx for sharing

  • @indiwagam4347
    @indiwagam4347 6 лет назад +110

    She has a beautiful heart. I love her.

  • @leayspeerwriter
    @leayspeerwriter 10 лет назад +49

    I hope I will be at least half a good of a teacher as Erin Gruwell. She inspires me, and I hope I can inspire my students one day to do something amazing for themselves.

  • @ReactiveDogDiaries
    @ReactiveDogDiaries Год назад +2

    This is exactly why teachers need to be one the highest paying careers. This is what teachers should embody.

  • @hazelmarieclark6568
    @hazelmarieclark6568 6 лет назад +31

    So i have watched The Freedom Writers many times and i love it very much. I can relate to all of the students in one fashion or another. I wish i would have had a high school teacher like Ms. Gruwell.
    Seriously, what she did with her students and how she got them to see the potential that they had was just amazing. There needs to be more teachers like her.

  • @liamarasilva
    @liamarasilva 4 года назад +14

    What an amazing woman you are!! I watched the movie and I cried nonstop!! I am also a teacher in Brazil and her we also have those people who join the public service not because they care, but for the stability of their job. So sad!! But seeing teachers like you is really inspiring!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @gmshawnryu
    @gmshawnryu 11 лет назад +28

    Are you kidding? She is gorgeous inside and out

  • @priscillaquiah1837
    @priscillaquiah1837 2 года назад +4

    You really did a world changing thing, Ms Gruwell,. You got me tearing up with this and so inspired to pursue my

  • @sparkeli4513
    @sparkeli4513 3 года назад +3

    This lady is incredible and so were her students. She is such an inspiration.

  • @SteveMariottiProductions
    @SteveMariottiProductions 5 лет назад +14

    Erin--you are a great leader and teacher. you are a role model for so many . steve mariotti

  • @ChineezPnoy
    @ChineezPnoy 11 лет назад +24

    I graduated from that Orange county university BTW.
    ^_^
    Now back home in the Philippines doing what I can to ppl around me to better society.

  • @بوحالسطور-ه5ض
    @بوحالسطور-ه5ض 7 лет назад +9

    comming from 2018, I'm from Jordan, I'm 22 so I graduated, but after your movie and your words and after reading your kids book, I can say that I have to change my life and choose another choice ..thank you for being the person who I needed to listen for

    • @theacapitanio6858
      @theacapitanio6858 4 года назад +4

      It's 2020 now and I really hope from the bottom of my heart you are flourishing into your new choice.

  • @TheAnnaFisher
    @TheAnnaFisher 8 лет назад +22

    Thank you, Erin Grewell, I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you at Hollywood's Chinese Theater on National Teacher's Day to see this film, meet some of the students, the actors and listen to the panel. All the best!

  • @alejandraherrera1634
    @alejandraherrera1634 10 лет назад +23

    "First think that you can , then you´ll be able to tell the same to others and you´ll be doing something"; that´s what she makes me think :)

  • @jazzfan707
    @jazzfan707 10 лет назад +17

    What an inspiring story...the book is really engrossing Teach With Your Heart, by Erin Gruwell.

  • @TheAminicagrga
    @TheAminicagrga 2 года назад

    thank you, thank you from Bosnia and Herzegovina.. from the bottom of my heart.. thank you for caring..

  • @xxmisaxx8
    @xxmisaxx8 11 лет назад +22

    It was so beautiful :") ,thank you for inspiring us, I am the 1st one in my family who is in medicine school.You reminded me of that,now I'll work harder to be a GREAT EXTRAORDINARY doctor .Thank you

  • @barbhardy5038
    @barbhardy5038 12 лет назад +3

    Just watched the movie again. Erin shows these kids need positive attention NOT a punitive approach.

  • @ashtonadrouzi8021
    @ashtonadrouzi8021 8 лет назад +129

    i love this woman. who would divorce her?

    • @TheMusicvideoVEVO
      @TheMusicvideoVEVO 8 лет назад +19

      i know right?? In the movie, it was just that she was not spending anytime with her husband...

    • @holliemartin3750
      @holliemartin3750 7 лет назад +7

      I think the divorce scene was added for drama. I don't believe she went through divorce during that time.

    • @JB-ej2cx
      @JB-ej2cx 6 лет назад +49

      A sexist guy who feels intimidated when a woman is doing a difference in the a World.

    • @callmebymyname643
      @callmebymyname643 5 лет назад +6

      I know, she seems to be a wonderful person

    • @robinhoodstfrancis
      @robinhoodstfrancis 5 лет назад +9

      @@holliemartin3750 No, a media site about the movie´s factual basis states that the relationship break up and divorce is true

  • @rayonasharpnack
    @rayonasharpnack 12 лет назад +8

    Erin, you are as magnificent as ever!! You inspire me to keep reaching for the stars and reaching back to bring others with me.........love, Raona

  • @murshedaziz3742
    @murshedaziz3742 4 года назад +1

    A wonderful soul. Just watched her movie. People can make difference when they are united.

  • @msaid993-j7u
    @msaid993-j7u Год назад

    Very inspiring and touching story, The Freedom Writers is undoubtedly the best movie I have watched so far.

  • @frederick909
    @frederick909 11 лет назад +37

    What a remarkable human being!

  • @tajabdullah.malaysia
    @tajabdullah.malaysia Год назад

    Had similar experiences having some underperformed BSc CGP below 3.5, as graduate students; now they're scholars, officers and educators 🎉❤

  • @shellyjustice7227
    @shellyjustice7227 4 года назад

    I loved the Washington part!! Stopping traffic in peaceful protest!! She taught them how to stand up for themselves and be heard!

  • @manasoutosoy
    @manasoutosoy 12 лет назад

    All that feeling in her story telling, all that heart wrenching pain, all of those tears she is holding back while telling her story. I don't respond well to sentimentalization. If you are a professional in education and want to maximize the potential of good teaching. Continuing to teach is important. I am impressed by the positive outcomes with her students during her short career as a teacher.

  • @rexray3530
    @rexray3530 3 года назад

    Reminds me of my father. He was the principal of a grade school. On the first day of school, he wanted students to write what they'd done in the summer. He came to my mother's class. She told him they couldn't do that. "Sure they can! He gave them a pep talk and one girl brought him her paper. "Honey, what does this say?" "I don't know; I can't read." (She was in the first grade.)

  • @Younique4lyfe
    @Younique4lyfe 6 лет назад +2

    This made me cry....

  • @ella8953
    @ella8953 4 года назад +1

    i am now a fan, hope i could be a teacher like you, erin!

  • @manasoutosoy
    @manasoutosoy 12 лет назад

    I am able to draw tangible connections to good teaching and learning. Aspiration of a student is one of the most important elements contributing to student success, this tends to be much lower in lower socioeconomic areas.

  • @kubygul2485
    @kubygul2485 11 лет назад +2

    She is just too good.. Love you...

  • @haphidasarapyngrope844
    @haphidasarapyngrope844 4 года назад +1

    Tears, through and through :')

  • @cristiancerocuatro
    @cristiancerocuatro 12 лет назад +2

    lo que hizo esta mujer es heroico es noble y demuestra que el ser humano es real porfavor no dejen de leer la historia de esta mujer que cambiaria su alma para toda su vida se los prometo.

  • @samusaran181818
    @samusaran181818 10 лет назад +2

    I love Erin Gruwell!

  • @teeI0ck
    @teeI0ck 3 года назад

    showing an accurate and deep understanding; great perceptive. 💡
    Muito obrigado for all the insightful information. 🤝

  • @IamTheBuckethead
    @IamTheBuckethead 11 лет назад +8

    Great stuff, really inspiring.

  • @simagoel9173
    @simagoel9173 10 лет назад +1

    I loved your presentation and your message.

  • @Williamrburrus
    @Williamrburrus 7 лет назад +3

    the best teacher in the world
    '

  • @ciszekkrystyna
    @ciszekkrystyna 11 лет назад +6

    What an amazing human being

  • @6cooch9
    @6cooch9 3 года назад

    I sometimes wonder if she ever knew she’d be a legend

  • @Antknightt
    @Antknightt 4 года назад +2

    She is the best

  • @rudra8020
    @rudra8020 4 года назад

    She is very inspiring 🙏

  • @Ace-gn9fo
    @Ace-gn9fo 9 лет назад

    oke so I'm watching this for school but i like it and i respect her so much. and i will search he when I'm home

  • @EuropeanQoheleth
    @EuropeanQoheleth 4 года назад +1

    Turning the other cheek isn't the same as turning a blind eye. Turning the other cheek means not getting revenge; turning a blind eye means ignoring.

  • @williammaldonado6132
    @williammaldonado6132 2 года назад

    AWESOME! ✨️

  • @usssanjacinto1
    @usssanjacinto1 11 лет назад +27

    She should be POTUS.

    • @forsethtv7190
      @forsethtv7190 8 лет назад

      hi bro im not english and i dont understand that ...what does it mean?

    • @Kythos
      @Kythos 8 лет назад +3

      Epic Ares I'm not American but I know what it means: President of the United States.

  • @suelenfatinanci2268
    @suelenfatinanci2268 3 года назад

    amazing story !

  • @forsethtv7190
    @forsethtv7190 8 лет назад +2

    i loved the film too thanks

  • @monicamolina1582
    @monicamolina1582 5 лет назад

    Wow wow wow wow amazing God bless you abundantly you are a beautiful blessing to all those kids I'm very grateful to God for you for making the beautiful difference ❤❤❤💖💖💖💕💙💙💚💘💘

  • @joshrussell3341
    @joshrussell3341 3 года назад

    To the person reading this, you’re absolutely amazing and wonderful! God is SO great! God is SO real!! God bless you!!! God bless everyone!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @agabajulliet4259
    @agabajulliet4259 7 лет назад +1

    Really a catalyst for change

  • @mychanneleeezey
    @mychanneleeezey 10 лет назад +4

    Where are the clips coming from? Is there a documentary?

    • @natsurose
      @natsurose 8 лет назад +2

      Freedom Writers: Stories From an Undeclared War

  • @YAHdozinda
    @YAHdozinda 4 года назад +1

    "He who sees me, sees the Father"...

  • @MenengaiCrater
    @MenengaiCrater 12 лет назад +7

    Its a sad truth that teachers do not make good money while the people who are destroying society make all the money. I'm talking about movie actors, criminal lawyers, divorce lawyers, alcohol brewers etc. Where is society headed to? :(

    • @GhostFan-ev4di
      @GhostFan-ev4di 6 лет назад

      Kobo destruction

    • @tracer4322
      @tracer4322 3 года назад

      It's the actors and lawyers? I thought you were about to say corporations but okay

  • @surambaya
    @surambaya 12 лет назад +2

    Really now? See, RUclips has over @00 Million videos. You can choose another where the protagonists do not want recognition and money. No need to rain on someone else's parade. I recognize that she lent 4 years of her lives to help kids on our schools, created a foundation and is now teaching others how to do it. In the process she even lost her marriage. That is how much she wanted to help.

  • @As_intention
    @As_intention 8 месяцев назад +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @shariparrilla7610
    @shariparrilla7610 6 лет назад +1

    Can u still buy the book

  • @paoyang8558
    @paoyang8558 7 лет назад +1

    Wow!!

  • @cindy-jc2do
    @cindy-jc2do 3 года назад +1

    is she a famouse author now!

  • @briggittecaicedo7659
    @briggittecaicedo7659 6 лет назад +1

    Lo maximo.

  • @mbear709
    @mbear709 4 года назад +2

    I love the work Erin has done but please do not use the term deadbeat dads. there are deadbeat moms as well.
    Most times dads are not aloud to be fathers. This is why so many kids get like this, the men are pushed out of
    there homes. I'm from the govt and I am here to help!

  • @marianamackinney
    @marianamackinney 4 года назад

    This is a woman of God.

  • @manasoutosoy
    @manasoutosoy 12 лет назад

    And I am most certain that this will not happen. I can only teach good things for the rest of my life and hope that great changes will be made by people who are dedicated to the science of education and sociology and not. The farting of ones warm hearted emotions in the wind

  • @anthonypepito638
    @anthonypepito638 8 лет назад +1

    I miss my English Professor...

  • @EuropeanQoheleth
    @EuropeanQoheleth 5 лет назад +1

    At the end of the speech she misued the phrase turning the other cheek. Turning the other cheek doesn't mean turn a blind eye.

    • @sofifi03
      @sofifi03 4 года назад

      Complaining Qoheleth that wasn’t the point

  • @calishaw219
    @calishaw219 4 года назад

    💛

  • @joshua.u.inspire
    @joshua.u.inspire 5 лет назад +9

    So nobody gonna talk about how fine she is... Ok...

  • @manasoutosoy
    @manasoutosoy 12 лет назад +2

    You will reach some students but the students who are disillusioned aren't wrong. Minimum wage in the UK in it's double dipping recession is a pitiful 6pounds. To prepare a student for a workforce that pays into a very meager wage while advertising and the general consumer culture that surrounds them teachers a young adult, even a older adult to want more if they are to have self worth.

  • @aarontoalet
    @aarontoalet 5 дней назад

    It's not worth it. Her unique story is not going to happen for the majority of teachers. Fix the system. Don't make us teachers become therapists, second parents, counselors, etc.

  • @AnaLuizaHella
    @AnaLuizaHella 12 лет назад +3

    In 1998 after teaching for only four years, Gruwell left Wilson High School and became a Distinguished Teacher in Residence at California State University, Long Beach. Gruwell later went on to start the Freedom Writers Foundation, which aspires to spread the Freedom Writers method across the country."
    I see. She wants recognition and money.

    • @gmcmim1
      @gmcmim1 7 лет назад +11

      She wants recognition and money? And? What's wrong with that? Especially if she has bills to pay.

  • @ChineezPnoy
    @ChineezPnoy 11 лет назад +1

    Wow.
    She was inspired by this guy.
    wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Tank_Man

  • @AnaLuizaHella
    @AnaLuizaHella 12 лет назад +1

    Did she stop teaching? She tells the same story over and over...

    • @sofifi03
      @sofifi03 4 года назад +4

      Ana Luiza bc that is the story people ask for

  • @belenvara2183
    @belenvara2183 4 года назад +1

    10:08 uncle President Joe

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Drs said in the opration not for me and I got mad at the army nurse

  • @andresfranco8194
    @andresfranco8194 7 лет назад +1

    I like what she did but the la Riots wasn't justified those people targeted Asian owned stores and left them with no source of income and they also targeted non black people on the street pulled them out there car beat them and bashed there heads in with brick almost killing them or handicap

    • @jsaikris
      @jsaikris 4 года назад

      The point is she wanted to change that story....

    • @tracer4322
      @tracer4322 3 года назад +2

      I don't think she was saying those actions were justified, she was saying their anger was justified. Rodney King didn't deserve to be brutalized by police and they had a right to be angry at that injustice. She never said that they had a right to hurt other people though. In fact, the entire point was that she was trying to get them to channel their anger and pain into writing instead of violence so that they could have a chance at a better future.

  • @joet3758
    @joet3758 4 года назад +1

    Give a man a fish you feed him for one day. Teach a man how to fish you feed them for a lifetime

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Bloomfield

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    God put me on park bench any help

  • @flacornmallrat
    @flacornmallrat 4 года назад

    Nothing but coddling she only taught underprivileged kids for 4 short years. Feel good stories don't fix the very real issues at play here.

    • @GoingWTheFlo
      @GoingWTheFlo 2 года назад

      So you missed the whole point?

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Ouch

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    I only have my phone

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Giant dragon snake thing

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Why

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    I have fear of water

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Oh jesus

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Magic in jail is not good

  • @manasoutosoy
    @manasoutosoy 12 лет назад

    But Hearing Erin speak is like watching a hallmark card cry. Full of syrupy sentiment but no substance. And there must be something good in her philosophy as if she was able to tell us how it was achieved then perhaps other teachers and students could benefit from it.... Maybe we have to bye her books. Maybe I will. But having taught for 12 years now and achieving great results in schools in the London UK and regional areas.

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    I'm alone in my room any one wanna cruise get a coffie

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Yes mistress

  • @AnaLuizaHella
    @AnaLuizaHella 12 лет назад

    'Vote for ME!
    Jesus! I watched the movie and now I encounter a this? Demagogy?
    Disgusting.

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Disconete pensi

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    What the martial arts Chinese teacher loook after

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Fartin
    Martin I have photi

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    I'm a dragon of the sea jesus can u get someone to have a look

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Can I touch

  • @thunderpop20
    @thunderpop20 7 лет назад

    Cry not for me

  • @rsuryase
    @rsuryase 11 лет назад

    She was slim and hot back then