teachers

Can Mr. Narwhal help an angry Angelfish manage her emotions?.

"Setting out best practices and professional guidance for creating LGBT inclusive learning in schools, this authoritative guidebook for K-12 teachers provides advice on implementing alterations and updates to policies, curriculums, behaviors and learning environments for LGBT youth in the American education system. This book features real-life situations and scenarios, a glossary, and further resources. It enables professionals in a variety of school roles to integrate foundational concepts into their everyday interactions with students, families, and staff to create an overall school culture that reinforces a welcoming, inclusive, and affirming environment for all"--Provided by publisher.

"In Formative Tools for Leaders in a PLC: Assessing, Analyzing, and Acting to Support Collaborative Teams, authors Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic provide school leaders with tools and strategies to gauge the work of teams in implementing the professional learning community (PLC) process. Using the three stages of assessing, analyzing, and acting as a feedback loop, leaders examine the current reality of their schools along with major indicators of PLCs. The authors offer guidance for gathering evidence from school teams, processes, and artifacts and using data to inform and support areas that need improvement and celebrate those that are doing well. By reading this book, K-12 leaders will learn how to use a formative process to improve their schoolwide PLC practices"--Provided by publisher.

It is class picture day and Mrs. Hartwell is doing her best to keep her class looking their neat and well-dressed best, but the pictures will not be taken until the end of the day, and as the hours pass the students become messier and messier until they look like their normal selves--and that works out just fine.

"Teachers can change the life of a child with every new day. Whether they're discovering math, practicing an instrument, or learning about our wonderful, diverse world, students can count on the kindness, innovation, and patience of a teacher. This is a celebration of the ways teachers help their student's bloom"--Provided by publisher.

A.J. and his friends are starting fourth grade! A new school year means a new teacher, and Miss Banks may be their weirdest one yet. She won't stop playing practical jokes on the class, and A.J. has reached the breaking point. Will he and the gang learn not to fall for her tricks? Or will Miss Banks prevail as the ultimate prankster?.

"A year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors"--Front dust jacket.

"A.J. and his friends are starting fourth grade. A new school year means a new teacher, and Miss Banks may be their weirdest one yet. She won't stop playing practical jokes on the class, and A.J. has reached his breaking point. Will he and the gang learn to not fall for their teacher's tricks? Or will Miss Banks prevail as the ultimate prankster?"--Provided by publisher.

"When a children's orchestra in Cateura, Paraguay, grows to have more students than instruments, music teacher Favio Ch?vez works with a brilliant local carpenter to create instruments out of garbage from the local landfill"--Provided by the publisher.

Through a letter written from the teacher's point of view, the class reflects on the memories made and shows how proud the teacher is.