RAFE ESQUITH

Rafe Esquith is an American teacher who taught at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, in Los Angeles, California, from 1984 until 2015. Esquith has authored books about teaching and his annual class Shakespeare productions were featured in he 2005 documentary The Hobart Shakespeareans.

His teaching honors include the 1992 Teacher of the Year, for The Walt Disney Company's American Teacher Awards, a Sigma Beta Delta Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University, Oprah Winfrey's $100,000 "Use Your Life Award", Parents Magazine's "As You Grow Award", National Medal of Arts, and Esquith was made an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire.