Ron jones writer biography
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Ron Jones (teacher)
American writer and schoolteacher
Ron Jones (born 1941) 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 2008. 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
[edit]In April 1967, while working as a teacher at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, Jones created a project with his 15-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 en
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Ron Jones lives in San Francisco. He and his wife Deanna share their Haight Ashbury home with grandchildren, lots of books and a peaceful garden. When not writing or performing on scen, Ron enjoys teaching poetry with the mentally disabled and coaching his granddaughters CYO basketball team. Ron is retired after working 30 years as a teacher at the San Francisco Recreation Center for the Handicapped (now the Janet Pomeroy Center).
Fired from teaching at Cubberley High School and subsequent jobs directing alternative schools at Stanford University and Mt. Zion Psychiatric Hospital, Ron found an accepting home at the Janet Pomeroy Center. Teaching the physically and mentally disabled in theater and sports, his programs empowered the disabled to speak for themselves. He provided the disabled with a celebrated place in the community from which they were previously excluded. This work became the subject of books, film and television presentations that taught
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Ron Jones
Ron Jones may refer to:
- Ron Jones (television director) (1945–1995), British television director
- Ron Jones (teacher) (born 1941), American writer and teacher, known for his classroom experiment in Fascism
- Ron Jones (composer) (born 1954), American composer for TV shows
- Ron Jones (athlete) (1934–2021), Welsh track and field athlete
- Ron Jones (baseball) (1964–2006), 1980s baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Ron Jones (ice hockey) (born 1951), retired Canadian 1970s ice hockey player
- Ron Jones (American football) (born 1947), 1960s American football player
- Ron Jones (commentator), Welsh-born BBC radio sports commentator
- Ron Jones (businessman) (born 1948), British businessman with Tinopolis
- Ron Jones (footballer) (1914–2010), Welsh footballer
- Ron Jones (rugby union) (born 1943), Welsh rugby player