teacher-student relationships

Offers helpful strategies for giving effective and positive feedback to students, describing what kinds of feedback works best, and adjusting feedback to accommodate different levels of learning.

Shows parents and teachers how to motivate students to succeed in school, by learning to communicate better by using the "dialogue" technique.

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.

When Matthew finds out from J.P., the weird girl next door, that their teacher loves to read, he worries that everyone at his new school will know he's a terrible reader.

Alex, suffering a bit of a crush on her eighth-grade teacher Simon, becomes confused about what is true when a new girl at Forest Alternative claims Simon has been molesting her and Alex.

While trying to get even with Ayabe for defeating her, Mafuyu ends up making a friend instead, and, when she learns that Ayabe has family issues, she vows to help him out, whatever it takes.

Shinobi Yui, the student council's ninja, decides to take on Mafuyu in order to bring down the Public Morals Club, but he doesn't know about her alter ego, Super Bun. Mafuyu, meanwhile, would rather spend her time trying to beat Mr. Saeki's secrets out of him.

After Mafuyu is expelled from school for delinquency, her mother sends her to an isolated country school, where Mafuyu tries to transform herself into a well-behaved young lady. But, after she rescues her new teacher from a beating and then discovers that the school is full of delinquents, Mafuyu realizes that turning over a new leaf is going to be difficult.

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.