Angels in My Classroom: How Second Graders Saved My Life is a memoir that gives readers a detailed glimpse into the human factor of teaching by using humor, healing and joy to tell the story of how one teacher coped with her husband's untimely death from cancer. The book (set in a picturesque neighborhood school in Chicago) details how Lee-Ann's passion for her class of second graders allowed her to not only cope with her husband's sickness and death, but also it helped her heal students who were also dealing with loss. As the story progresses and her husband's death becomes inevitable, Lee-Ann realizes that her journey through grief is the catalyst she needed to leave her comfort zone of the classroom and embark on the journey of a thousand steps into a world without her husband. The book Angels in My Classroom is a solid example of the love that teachers not only have for their students, but the love that students show for their teachers in times of need.

Jodie is delighted that her twin-angel Belle can be in the classroom with her and when things go wrong for the supply teacher, Miss Smiley, Belle is on hand to help put things right.

Taking a fresh look at questions that have long troubled teachers committed to social change, No Angel in the Classroom provides a richly conceptualized and down-to-earth account of feminist teaching in higher education. Long-time feminist educator, Berenice Malka Fisher, gives a nuanced interpretation of second wave feminist consciousness-raising that bridges the gap between feminist activism and the academy. Candid classroom stories bring out the myths embedded in many activist ideals of the 1970s, while Fisher's informed analysis builds on these tensions, offering a complex amount of experience, emotion, thought, and action in feminist teaching. Visit our website for sample chapters!

This edited volume explores the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment. For writing instructors, writing center directors & scholars researching writing groups.

The school accountability movement’s focus solely on improving standardized test scores is dehumanizing. There is no standardized child. In the rush to quantify, evaluate, and ostensibly improve the American educational system, we have forgotten that education is complicated. Any attempt to distill it into a simplistic measure will fall short – and will compromise the nobility of the work. How can teachers continue to do the incredibly challenging work of effective education in an environment that can be downright damaging? We can save the soul of education by resisting the dehumanization of students. Teachers can shield children by embracing social-emotional learning, building trust, and displaying compassion. There is no quick-fix to creating a nurturing relationship. There is no single data point that can measure it. Teachers must commit to being present, paying attention, maintaining consistency, engaging in hard work, practicing humility, and working together. Angels and Superheroes provides specific, reproducible practices designed to help teachers cultivate trust and compassion, while managing the pressures of the testing movement. With time-proven theories and cutting-edge research, this book provides engaging examples, concrete strategies, and implementable resources to support teachers in bridging the divide between why they chose this career field – the children, and that which is currently being required of them – the test scores.

CORETHA GANTLING, affectionally known as Sister G has loved children since she was a child herself. She began teaching Sunday school as a teenager, and more than five decades later she still teaches Sunday school and the children in her day care, Gantling Family Day Care Home. Ms. Gantling taught children in grade first through eighth grades in public schools for twenty-nine years using creative effective teaching strategies and methods to help them search for and accomplish their own purpose driven life. She believes with the right approach children from all walks of life, whether public, private school or Sunday school can have great success and become accomplished citizens in their communities and beyond. She also believes our children are our greatest asset and the key to our nation becoming more unified under God. Ms. Gantling is uniquely qualified to empower church leaders, Sunday school teachers, Pastors, Day care owners, and Christian school principals among others. She mentors young ladies twelve to twenty-five years old known as The Holy Girls. She teaches them how to sew, how to cook and most importantly she trains them Gods way through life's lessons from Gods word.

An engaging and suspenseful story about one girl surviving Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013. WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019 Angel's family has seen many typhoons. For generations the violent storms have passed across the central Philippines around November, bringing with them drenching rains and strong winds. Lately they seem to be stronger, more destructive, but Angel's family and their neighbours know how to batten down - it's part of their way of life. But when a super typhoon comes to Tacloban, will Angel be able to withstand the greatest challenge of all?