Inside Job by Robert Boone

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Praise for Inside Job

Timely, instructive, and inspirational, Inside Job provides a rich landscape to view the messiness, complexity, and joy of teaching as a transformative process. Bob Boone is a masterful storyteller whose compelling narrative captures the essence of what good teaching is about – engaging the mind and connecting with the heart. – Dick Streedain, Professor of Educational Leadership Studies
National Lewis University

Bob Boone’s Inside Job is an engaging, immensely readable, inspiring personal account of a lifetime committed to teaching and a love of writing. His memoir reads like a good novel. Moving and entertaining, it also conveys the principles and practicalities by which education and community are achieved. It’s the sort of book that, while looking squarely at the difficulties and challenges that parents, teachers, and students face, makes one feel better about life. – Tom Jenks, Editor (with Raymond Carver) of American Short Story Masterpieces

Anyone interested in the field of education should learn much from this candid, captivating, and insightful story of one teacher’s evolution. – Christopher Edgar, Publications Director, Teachers and Writers

Bob Boone’s journey from novice to veteran is honest, funny, enlightening, and important in what it tells us about education in the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries. The reader winces at Boone’s mistakes and cheers when he gets it right, which is usually when he listens to the students and gives them space to learn. – S.L. Wisenberg – Author of Holocaust Girls: History, Memory and Other Obsessions

In a 30-year career that has taken him from public to private schools, From the suburbs to the broken sidewalks of Cabrini-Green, Robert Boone has constantly and consistently proven that he is the kind of teacher whom students – and parents – dream of. In his charming passionate and wonderfully written book “Inside Job: A Life of Teaching,” Boone takes readers on a whirlwind tour of three decades on the front lines of education, recounting the battles, the mistakes and – most telling – the moments when student’s eyes sparkle and smile with the confidence of “getting it… …What is so striking about Boone is his refreshing honesty and refusal to cave in to the naysayers who claim that children neither want to write nor will take the time to do it well. As a teacher of literature, I found “Inside Job” to be of more use than any dry pedagogical text. Boone tells it like it is, likes to laugh, cares about his students, pushes boundaries and shows a love of teaching that simply inspires. – Mark Luce, “The Bookshelf”, Chicago Tribune, March 7th, 2004

About Robert Boone

Robert Boone has led a unique life as a teacher. His teaching experiences began as an elementary school teacher on Staten Island, New York and continued in Chicago where he ran a program called Young Chicago authors, a program for talented young writers. Over 200 high school students have been through YCA’s scholarship program, receiving nearly a million dollars in scholarships. He has spent most of his life in classrooms, teaching every type of student from affluent suburban kids to disadvantaged public housing students. He also runs a test preparatory center in one of Chicago’s northern suburbs. Mr. Boone has studied teaching at The University of Wisconsin, Columbia Teacher’s College and Northwestern University. He has written extensively about education and test preparation and has several textbooks to his credit. He has also written about sports and athletics including Hack, a biography of legendary baseball player, Hack Wilson. He was named “Chicagoan of the Year” by Chicago Magazine. Inside Job is a highly enlightening and entertaining story of his education as a teacher. It began essentially when he walked in front of his first class of fifth grade students at Staten Island Academy, and continued on through Frankfort, Germany and inner city Chicago. It eventually led him to the life a “free-lance teacher” and the founder of a social service agency dedicated to self-expression and literacy among Chicago’s youth.

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