teachers

Guide for teens and parents on how teens can protect themselves from danger at school and in their communities.

Offers tips and strategies to help teachers and administrators deal with workplace conflicts and confrontations, including how to develop skills and confidence in handling conflict and how to avoid becoming either a victim or a villain.

Award-winning educator Debbie Silver shares her wisdom and humor, offering educators looking for a way to improve their instructional skills in a differentiated classroom practical strategies and techniques.

Describes the life of Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Congress, covering her childhood in Barbados and Brooklyn and her political career.

Thirteen-year-old Marcy Lewis and her friends rally together to try and get the school board to reinstate their English teacher who was fired for her refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Describes the process by which the staff at Lee Richmond School in California went about improving the quality of education being provided to students through a process that included promoting reading and writing achievement through authentic literacy experiences.

Angelina and her friends are very dismayed when they overhear bits of conversation that lead them to believe their beloved ballet teacher, Miss Lilly, is leaving them.

Describes what it is like to be a teacher, discussing the skills that are needed, what tools are used and how they help in a community.

Mr. Taylor tells his class a story about Tom, a ten-year-old searching for adventure who finds himself battling pirates on the high seas.