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Edie Smith is a 30 year veteran English teacher in the public school system. She writes her first book on teaching at a time when negative publicity is a daily occurrence in the media, and few want to believe that anything of a positive nature is happening in the classroom today.
Smith began her teaching career in Florida in 1961. Her family believed in public education, and, as a result, she and her three sisters became teachers. Today, in her retirement years, she continues as an active advocate of quality public education and a safe environment for the children and teachers of Florida. In 1985, her state bestowed upon her the honor of being Florida’s Teacher of the Year. In that role she traveled the length and breadth of Florida speaking out for education reform. From 1986 to 1988 she served as Florida’s representative on the National Teachers Forum, an arm of the National Commission on Education, serving under the presidencies of then Governor Thomas Keane of New Jersey and Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Smith was also chosen as one of 50 of the United States’ Most Creative and Innovative Teachers and as one of the Most Interesting Floridians in 1985.
Smith’s work with The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, a world-wide society for key women educators, has taken her to Russia and most of Europe, as well as to most of the continental United States. As her state’s president of Delta Kappa Gamma from 1993 to 1995, Smith once again traveled throughout Florida speaking out on education issues.
Smith also serves on the Auxiliary Board of SPARCC (Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center), an organization which helps women and children of sexual and spousal abuse regain their safety and self-respect through shelter, the court system, and job independence.
Edie Smith’s philosophy of teaching is “to instill in my students a love of life by injecting a bit of laughter in their hearts, poetry in their souls, and a sense of respect for self and others in their minds.”
A wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Smith lives with her husband Larry in Sarasota, Florida.
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