teacher-student relationships

Catrine, a thirteen-year-old American girl, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer, and there she must adjust to the peculiar personalities surrounding her while coming to terms with her own powerful feelings.

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

Discusses a child's feelings of anxiety and frustration caused by the disruption of a secure teacher-pupil relationship.

Presents tips and tools for high school teachers to help them control their classes, with help on topics such as motivation, promotion of self-discipline, time management in class, parental involvement, and specific infractions including bullying, vandalism, and profanity.

Provides guidance for principals in handling difficult students, presenting a ten-step problem-solving process and discussing rewards, punishment, critical teaching behaviors, student boredom and confusion, and other related topics.

Explains how teachers can use solutioning strategies to solve difficult classroom management problems, with practical suggestions for expanding teaching abilities using positive language to get positive results.

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.

Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem.

As she writes in her self-awareness journal assigned in English class, fifteen-year-old Sydney tries to discover her true identity and comes to terms with her obsession about her absent father.