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Buy Flying Colors at Amazon.com Flying Colors by Tim Lefens Beacon Press, 2002 "This is a story of courage and possibilities--and of the power of art to transform the lives of its creators." Library Journal, August Issue Flying Colors was named Reader's Digest 'Today's Best Nonfiction, winner of the NJ Council for the Humanities Book Award, Flying Colors has been published on five continents, and translated into Chinese. This book has already been well reviewed and received much praise. To these I would like to add my own account of how it gripped me with a growing terror from beginning to end. My terror was that the Good Guys would be ousted and the Baddies would reclaim the world. Towards the end of the book I was reading so fast it was like obsession. I became desperately engaged with anger for the righteousness of the cause and the injustice abounding. So, why was I so gripped by this book? I believe that it is a must-read for all educators of all people. Let us have an international law passed that makes it compulsory for all teachers to learn to thrive in special education before they are unleashed anywhere else. Artists such as those that Tim Lefens found in the Matheny School are in fact the best teacher trainers that anyone could have. The messages about sensitivity, humility and empathy that this book promotes are crucial learnings for anyone presuming to take the authority to stand before others and tell them what to do. That Lefens could see into their capacity and need for expression was the first joy of this book for me. That he could offer vehicles for creativity and protect the space to achieve was my second joy. In my own work with people who have special needs I too have found artists and great thinkers amongst a group of teenagers abandoned by the education system. I found young people who had poignant and intellectually advanced messages to deliver and could be helped to do this by an offer creative materials and methods. Meanwhile, back to the book: With a hint of

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