teachers

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Building a better teacher

how teaching works (and how to teach it to everyone)
2014
Discusses a number of techniques for educators to help students learn.

Dr. Maniac will see you now

When a group of comic book characters appears in the real world, twelve-year-old Richard Dreezer must track down Dr. Maniac in order to save the day.

Hearts and hooves

Excitedly celebrating Hearts and Hooves day, the Cutie Mark Crusaders plan a Valentine match for their single teacher, Cheerilee, only to land in trouble when their love spell misfires in wacky ways.

Gentlemen

2010
When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" before learning the truth.

A schoolteacher in old Alaska

the story of Hannah Breece
1997
True story of Hannah Breece, her struggle to establish federally funded schools in remote areas of Alaska, and her adventures in the world of frontier Alaska, trying to teach native Alaskan children to become Americans.

A distant shore

2003
A depressed white woman with a troubled past and an illegal African immigrant whose life has been destroyed by war slowly become a part of each other's lives in a small, racist northern England town.

The lamplighter

a novel
2003
Plodding police inspector Carus Groves teams up with retired professor Thomas McKnight and his gravedigger assistant to investigate when a series of grisly murders strikes Edinburgh in the 1880s, shortly after the return of Evelyn Todd, a young woman who had been expelled from the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls years earlier for weaving fantastic stories about a cheerful lamplighter.

Saul and Patsy

2003
Young married couple Saul and Patsy settle down in a small Michigan town where Saul embarks on a career as a teacher of remedial students, but their lives are thrown off course when one of those students inexplicably kills himself in their yard.

Who works at my school?

2013
Simple text and photographs describe different people who work at schools, including teachers, nurses, and others.

Ellie's star

2009
Ellie tries very hard to earn a gold star from her teacher, but circumstances continually prevent her from gaining one.

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