Q&A: Book's Editor Distills the Wisdom From Teachers' Voices

In a new book, entitled Teachers' Voices, Teachers' Wisdom, seven San Francisco Bay-area teachers talk candidly and compellingly about their lives in and out of the classroom.

The teachers tell why they decided to become teachers, what they want to accomplish with their students, and how they have learned to cope and thrive in difficult circumstances.

The book is edited by Nancy Kreinberg and Harriet Nathan, who are both associ- ated with EQUALS, a program at the University of California-Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, which helps K-12 teachers retain more female and minority students in mathematics. Ms. Kreinberg directs EQUALS, and Ms. Nathan works with the program at the Regional Oral History Office of the...