teachers

Explores how coaching programs can help teachers increase their skills, effectiveness, and student learning, outlines the coaching process, and explains how to develop effective coaching programs in the school setting.

Presents the biography of Shirley Chisholm against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment.

Explains the whole-faculty study group process as an approach to school reform, discussing the role of the principal, the developmental stages of study groups, and other topics, and looking at why the process is so successful when properly applied. Includes forms, action plans, logs, activities, and other resources.

Sixteen-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, to teach in the village school she attended while growing up.

Presents a brief illustrated introduction to the life and career of African-American educator Mary McLeod Bethune.

When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.

Heidi tries a succession of ways to make her fifth-grade teacher less mean.

Although she sucks her thumb, smells bad, and loses herself in the make-believe world of the three bears' dollhouse, ten-year-old Fran knows how to take care of her baby sister better than anybody else.

The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughout the world.