teachers

The author recounts a year of teaching on the Alaska frontier, where the white adults resent her teaching the Indians as well as her relationship with a half-Indian man.

Provides strategies, skills, and the tools necessary for elevating the professionalism within the school administration including the importance of high-quality professional development and understanding standards and goals.

When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from Huck's father while he is in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him no matter what it takes.

Presents over four hundred inspirational quotations from top teachers across the United States, including twenty-one who have earned the title of National Teacher of the Year.

Sixteen-year-old Ana, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, to teach in the village school where she was taught.

No one seems especially concerned when Ms. Sanchez disappears from school, but Justin Alvarez knows she would not desert her students and he is determined to find out what happened to the only teacher who ever cared enough to help him.

Arcadia L?pez describes her development from a childhood of poverty and immigration to the achievement of her goal of becoming a teacher in the barrio.

Sixth grader Nate Banks sees the hand of the evil Coldsnap in the stinky cabbage-smelling snow that starts falling on his desert town, but superhero Ultraviolet thinks it is too dangerous to confront the supervillain--until he goes after an American treasure.

Los Angeles teacher Rafe Esquith tells the story of his career, discussing how he has repeatedly challenged the system of public education and achieved success promoting a program of hard work, dedication, and perseverance.