Ron jones author biography

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Ron Jones (teacher)

American writer and schoolteacher

Ron Jones (born ) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his classroom exercise called "The Third Wave" and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movieThe Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in The original TV movie won the Emmy and Peabody Awards. His books The Acorn People and B-Ball have also been made into TV dramas. Jones lives in San Francisco, California where he regularly performs as a storyteller.

Career

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In April , while working as a teacher at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, Jones created a project with his year-old World History students in which they experienced the growth of a fascist movement, called The Wave. Jones intended for this to be only a week-long exercise. He had a designed lesson plan which included a salute, a slogan, and a secret "police" force. The experiment was ended by Jones after complaints from teachers and parents. Jones then revealed that it was an exercise intended to give students a direct experience of how easily they could be misled into behaving like fascists, drawing parallels to the rise of the National Socialist movement in Germany.^{[citation needed]}

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Ron Jones is an author, playwright, and spoken word artist. Three of his stories have been made into movies: The Wave (), The Wave (), The Acorn People (), and One Special Victory (); which have garnered an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Peabody for their producers. Ron was the real-life basketball coach of the team of disabled people who inspired the movie One Special Victory (). And as the original teacher of the high school classroom experiment in extremism known as "The Third Wave" (aka "The Wave"), he is featured in both Wave documentaries Lesson Plan () and The Invisible Line (). That story is widely taught in schools around the world.

Ron's book entitled "Kids Called Crazy" was nominated for a Pulitzer, and "Say Ray," the story of a disabled man abducted to Mexico, was honored as the American Book of the Year. Ron holds a Master's in Education from Stanford University, and was a counselor and basketball coach for 30 years at the Janet Pomeroy Center for the mentally and physically disabled in San Francisco.

BornAugust 31,