Preface What This Book Is About Acknowledgments About the Author 1. Before the First Days of School 2. The First Week of School 3. Planning for Classroom Instruction 4. Student Recordkeeping 5. Classroom Management and Discipline 6. Working With Colleagues, Substitutes, and Paraprofessionals 7. Communicating With Parents 8. Finding Balance: Loneliness at the Chalkboard Resource A: Professional Organizations Resource B: Subject-Specific Organizations Index
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Dr. Harriet Brown Arnold is a veteran educator who has served as elementary school teacher, middle school administrator, elementary school principal, director of personnel and staff development, and international consultant to schools. A graduate of San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Social Welfare, she received her Masters in Education at California State University, San Jose and her Doctorate with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of San Francisco. Her professional development projects have included training for the Ministry of Education in the Bahamas and coordinating the Sequoia Beginning Teacher Program.