teachers

The lives of three women, rebellious fifteen-year-old Lucia Moberg, pregnant teen Tanya Yasbeck, and homicide detective Greta Hurd, hurtle toward a violent confrontation after Lucia's father, Oscar, a professor at the State University of New York, is gunned down by a carjacker in the parking lot of a local mall.

Provides guidance for social studies teachers in planning, instruction, and assessment that links social studies with literacy, and features vignettes from real classrooms.

Twenty-five teachers share personal stories from their first year of teaching.

Photographs and easy-to-read text describe the job of a teacher.

Offers advice and support for teachers on how to deal with the emotional demands of the profession and gain and maintain the energy to deal with students, parents, and administrators.

Teachers share a variety of strategies for working with struggling math learners in kindergarten through grade five, using whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction. Includes DVD.

An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of school children.

Lexi and the other kids in the Valentine Club are hoping to surprise their teacher with a secret valentine at the school's Sweetheart Skate.

On Seal Island off the coast of Maine, a place as warm with pets of all kinds, nine-year-old Pru plans to keep her teacher from leaving by finding her a dog.