Facts of Erin Gruwell
Full Name:	Erin Gruwell
Age:	52 years 3 months
Birth Date:	August 15, 1969
Horoscope:	Leo
Lucky Number:	4
Lucky Stone:	Ruby
Lucky Color:	Gold
Best Match for Marriage:	Sagittarius, Gemini, Aries
Birth Place:	California
Father's Name:	Stephen Douglas Gruwell
Mother's Name:	Sandra Faye Alley
Marital Status:	Divorce
Gender:	female
Profession:	Teacher
Education:	California State University
Nationality:	American
Hair Color:	Dark brown
Eye Color:	Dark Brown
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Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.

What is Erin Gruwell Famous For?

• Is an American teacher
• For her publication of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

Erin Gruwell: Age, Bio, Parents, Family, Siblings, Childhood, Ethnicity

Erin Gruwell was born on August 15, 1969, in California to Stephen Douglas Gruwell (died 2003 in West Covina, California), a former baseball scout for the Anaheim Angels, and Sandra Faye Alley. Her parents divorced when she was still a young girl. Erin holds American citizenship but her ethnicity is unknown. She initially had the interest to become a lawyer but after watching the 1992 Los Angeles riots, she decided to change her profession to a teacher because she believed educating students could make more of a difference.

Education History

She graduated from Bonita High School in Louisiana Verne, California, and the University of California, Irvine, where she received the Lauds and Laurels Distinguished Alumni Award.

She earned her master”s degree and teaching credentials from California State University, Long Beach, where she was honored as Distinguished Alumna by the School of Education.

All About Erin Gruwell’s Career

The 2007 film Freedom Writers is based on her story. Mississippi Gruwell began student teaching in 1994 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. She was assigned low-performing students in the school (computer generated IDs randomly selected the students she was to teach).

One student, a boy she referred to as “Sharaud,” seemed determined to make her life miserable.

However, a few months into the school year one of her other students passed a note depicting Sharaud (an African American) with extremely large lips. Gruwell told the class that that was the type of caricature that the Nazis had used during the Holocaust.

When only one of the students knew what the Holocaust was, Gruwell changed the theme of her curriculum to tolerance. Gruwell took the students to see Schindler”s List, bought new books out of her own pocket and invited guest speakers. After her year of student teaching, Gruwell returned to Wilson as a full teacher, this time with a class of sophomores.

Her fall semester got off to a rocky start due to student protests of Proposition 187. But Gruwell persevered and reached her students by asking them to keep journals and make movies of their lives, and by relating the family feud in Romeo and Juliet to a gang war. She also had the students read books written by and about other teenagers in times of war, such as The Diary of a Young Girl, Zlata”s Diary and Night.

Writing journals became a solace for many of the students, and because the journals were shared anonymously, teenagers who once refused to speak to someone of a different race became like a family.

In the fall of 1995, Gruwell gave each of her students a bag full of new books and had them make a toast for change. After that, she saw a turnaround in them. The students went on to surprise everyone. All 150 Freedom Writers graduated from high school and many went on to attend college.

Between 1994 and 1998, the Freedom Writers garnered a great deal of media coverage, including appearances on PrimeTime Live, The View and Good Morning America. After teaching Gruwell later went on to start the Freedom Writers Foundation, which aspires to spread the Freedom Writers method across the country. In 2000, 30 years old, Gruwell ran for Congress in California-38. She finished in third place.

The Freedom Writers Diary is a 1999 book written by the Freedom Writers with intros by Erin Gruwell. The lieutenant is the basis of the 2007 movie Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank. She has written an autobiographical account of her experiences, entitled Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers, published around the same time as the movie”s release.

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Erin Gruwell: Net Worth(2020)

Erin might have earned a huge sum of money from her career but her income and net worth are still under review.

Is Erin Gruwell married? Husband, Children, Marriage

Erin was married to Scott Casey in 1990. They did not welcome any children. Unfortunately, she divorced her husband in 1994. After that, she is living her single life.

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Erin Gruwell: Height, Weight, Eye Color

Erin has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes but her height, weight, body measurements, etc. are not available.

Is Erin Gruwell active on social media?

Erin does not seem to be active on any social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

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