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A guide for teachers on how to implement the five principles of deliberate optimism, focusing on how to rediscover motivation, take a positive view of events beyondone's control, build an optimistic classroom where students flourish, and partner with other stakeholders to create an optimistic learning environment.

Provides advice and lessons to engage middle school students and encourage collaboration, self-awareness, and compassion in the middle school classroom.

Although she sucks her thumb, smells bad, and loses herself in the make-believe world of the three bears' dollhouse, ten-year-old Fran knows how to take care of her baby sister better than anybody else.

Max learns that brains work in different and interesting ways!.

Contains animated versions of five children's stories about school, including "Miss Nelson Has a Field Day," "Miss Nelson is Back!" "The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash," "The Dot," and "Amazing Grace.".

Poems describe the life of an immigrant family's young daughter who dreams of being a teacher.

Ethan Flask, the sixth-grade science teacher at Einstein Elementary, and his students explore space.

When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.

Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.

When substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Massachusetts, they witness the Battle of Lexington and learn about the Declaration of Independence.