All students need encouragement and someone to tell them "You did a great job!" or "I appreciate your hard work." In Apples and Chalkdust Notes, veteran educator Vicki Caruana gives you simple yet fun notes to communicate positive affirmations to your students. Inspired by the best-selling Apples and Chalkdust series, these encouraging notes only take seconds to prepare, but will show your students you sincerely care about them and spur them on toward excellence. Included are 60 four-color, tear-out notes with stickers to seal them. Show your students how special they are to you!

You probably don't have to think very hard to recall a dedicated teacher who touched your life in a lasting way with encouragement and inspiration...teachers just have a way of knowing exactly what to do or say to help children and teens reach their highest potential. No wonder so many parents and kids are looking for a way to say thank you and return some of that inspiration. In this delightful, revised and updated, 10th Anniversary Edition, veteran educator Vicki Caruana meets teacher's right where they are, in the midst of flying chalkdust and papers to be graded. She provides refreshment and practical insights for embracing the challenges of teaching with renewed vigor and creativity.

These prayers reflect a teacher's openness to God as she awaits guidance to teach His children. Elspeth Murphy shares her insights into the kinds of pupils that every teachers will recognize: the class clown, the quiet child, the gifted child, the unmotivated child, the handicapped child.

Lose yourself for a couple of hours in a transcendent book. Or dip into it for brief stories that will support or challenge you. Come away from your reading and know, if you are a teacher, that you have the best job in the world.

Ready for whenever you need a quick pick-me-up, prayer, or moment of peaceful introspection, these timeless meditations tap into the everyday joys and frustrations of teaching, imparting encouragement and hope. "Each prayer is an expression of the heart. However teachers use it, Chalkdust is bound to rub off." -Christian Home and School "This book will remind you that teaching is a high calling and a joy." - Bill Martin, Jr., author of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, founder of International Institute of Literacy conferences.

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The Maths Behind over 60 everyday phenomena. Have you ever wondered why traffic jams often turn out to have no cause when you get to the end of the queue? There's a mathematical explanation for that. Or ever considered whether some lotteries might be easier to win than others? There's a formula for that too. If you've ever been curious about the mathematical strings that hold our world together, then look no further than The Maths Behind. This intriguing and illuminating book takes a scientific view of your everyday world, and can give you the answers to all the niggling questions in your life, along with many you never even thought to ask. From the science behind roller coasters, to the maths behind how to consistently win at Monopoly (and become very unpopular with your family), this is a fascinating look at the mathematical forces that run beneath our everyday transactions.

Follow the journey of this author from a student in a one-room school house to a classroom of her own and, eventually, a counselor's office. From hilarious to heartwarming, you will catch a glimpse of the trials and triumphs within the walls of school. Join her for forty years' worth of anecdotes that will have you laughing as only a child's wit, honesty, and undaunting humor can do. If you've ever had aspirations of becoming an educator or have your own fond memories of school like, you will love this book! Chalk Dust is a testament of the authors kindness and unselfish caring for others. This book vividly illustrates what life in education is all about. It celebrates our countrys most important resource our children. Chris Martin, 12 year NFL Alumni, Author, Adult Ed Instructor Entertaining and irresistibleThis is a must read for anyone, not just educators. This author reminds us to keep humor in our daily lives. Becky Eifert, Principal