teacher-student relationship

At the end of the school year, the children of Room 3 and Mrs. McBee find their own ways of helping each other get ready to leave and say good-bye.

Offers teachers, administrators, and counselors practical suggestions for teaching class clowns while allowing them to share their blend of humor and intelligence in a manner that remains conducive to learning.

Presents a practice guide for teachers for helping students to raise their expectations and standards and provides strategies for communicating with parents, recognizing and correcting negative behavioral problems, and increasing social and academic skills.

In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father abandons her and her brother, and her mother follows him.

Introverted Imogene Abney is offered a teaching position at the elite Vandenberg School for Boys. During her tenure at the elite school she meets a handsome, popular student and learns what it's like to be young, female, and desperate to be loved by the wrong person.

Learn many prehistoric facts---and some hilarious jokes---with Miss Lernin and Ronnie as they visit the Paleozoic era and explore the earliest life-forms on Earth.

"Helps kids and adults master critical social-emotional skills, encourages student leadership, provides effective and compassionate behavior management strategies, and raises academic performance. With dozens of fun and easy-to-do activities and community meeting agendas, this book provides everything you need to create a positive learning environment in any classroom, school, or school community"--Amazon.com.

Though enthusiastic to immerse himself in the lives of his students, newly-graduated high school English teacher Ben Jameson become enmeshed in the lives of three students--one who is being abused, a molestation victim, and a beautiful eighteen-year-old returning to school to graduate. Ben's misguided attempts at "saving" the children shows how dangerous relationships with students can be, and the impact of mixing idealism with reality.

A practical guide for improving and sustaining effective, daily literacy practices in all subject areas in order that all students receive the highest possible levels of achievement.