In Bamboo Bending, distinguished teacher Morgan Zo Callahan weaves his multi-layered personal history into perceptive reflections on teaching, culture, and learning. His high-school and adult-school students motivated and pushed him to write this book, hoping that it would provide other students, teachers, and parents with encouragement and a direction for more effective and enjoyable scholarship. Morgan believes that by attentively sharing our stories and resources we can improve our schools and ourselves. Our minds and emotions must bend with flexibility, like a stalk of bamboo, to move the...