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[2022]., Primary, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: PICTURE NF HAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of painter and teacher Alma Thomas, discussing her childhood, teaching career and activism. .
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-- Battle for room three hundred fourteenBy Boland, Ed2016., Grand Central Pub. Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed.: February 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "[Relates the story of Ed Boland who,] in a fit of idealism, ... left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them."--Provided by publisher.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When a children's orchestra in Cateura, Paraguay, grows to have more students than instruments, music teacher Favio Chávez works with a brilliant local carpenter to create instruments out of garbage from the local landfill"--Provided by the publisher.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When a children's orchestra in Cateura, Paraguay, grows to have more students than instruments, music teacher Favio Chávez works with a brilliant local carpenter to create instruments out of garbage from the local landfill"--Provided by the publisher.
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c1986., Enslow Publishers Call No: Biography MC AULIFFE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the "life before stardom" and selection of a New Hampshire teacher as the first private citizen to go into space, her training as an astronaut, and the shuttlecraft disaster that ended her life.
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c1987., Rourke Enterprises Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Reaching your goalSummary Note: Traces the life of the woman selected as the first teacher-in-space and her tragic death in the Challenger space shuttle explosion. Includes information on setting goals.
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c1987., Rourke Enterprises Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Reaching your goalSummary Note: Traces the life of the woman selected as the first teacher-in-space and her tragic death in the Challenger space shuttle explosion. Includes information on setting goals.
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c1987, Juvenile, Rourke Enterprises Call No: 921 Mca Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Reaching your goalSummary Note: Traces the life of the woman selected as the first teacher-in-space and her tragic death in the Challenger space shuttle explosion. Includes information on setting goals.
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-- Teacher in spacec1991., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Gateway biographySummary Note: The first private American citizen chosen to go on a spaceflight, Christa McAuliffe, lost her life when the Challenger exploded just after liftoff. Describes her special interest in the space program.
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By Demi[2018], Primary, Shen's Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This is an illustrated biography of Confucius, the ancient Chinese teacher, politician, thinker, and philosopher known for his popular aphorisms, his emphasis on education and study, and his models of social interaction.
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-- My posse don't do homework1993., St. Martin's Paperbacks Call No: MEMOIR Edition: St. Martin's Paperb Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ex-Marine LouAnne Johnson's account of her first year teaching at Parkmount High School in California.
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Call No: GN-SPORTS DRA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Gene understands stories - comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him "Stick" and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships. Once Gene gets to know these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he's seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn't know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons's lives, but his own life as well.
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2013., Riverhead Books Call No: Performing Arts Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of influential drama director Lou Volpe, chronicling his last school years working at Harry S. Truman High School in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and following a group of student actors as they work through dramas both on and off the stage.
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2013., Riverhead Books Call No: MEMOIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of influential drama director Lou Volpe, chronicling his last school years working at Harry S. Truman High School in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and following a group of student actors as they work through dramas both on and off the stage.
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2023., Adolescent, Scribner Call No: B ZER Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission"--Provided by the publisher.
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c2000., Juvenile, Scholastic Inc. Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
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c2008., St. Martin's Griffin Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A first-hand account of a young man who develops a disorder known as Tourette's Syndrome and his struggle at home, at school, and at college. Describes how he becomes a dynamic and compassionate teacher and receives the Teacher of the Year Award in Georgia.
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[2015], Juvenile, Viking Call No: B TRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents an autobiographical picture book describing the author growing up in Rhodesia, and dreaming of an education. She writes her dreams on paper and buries them in a tin can. The young woman eventually travels to America for an education, and returns later to open a school in her village.
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2015., Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: 370.9 TRENT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the life of the African activist who grew up in rural poverty, went on to receive an education in the United States, and returned to her country of Zimbabwe to rebuild her childhood school.
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c2008., Juvenile, National Geographic Call No: B SUL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biography of Anne Sullivan and her work with Helen Keller.