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Author
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A few months have passed since Masahiro Setagawa revealed his true feelings for his teacher Kousuke Ohshiba (a.k.a. the Bear Killer, infamous destroyer of punks). But there's no way things will stay nice and peaceful for this pair! And when Kousuke suddenly says they should break up, Masahiro's world is turned upside-down!
42) Talk to me
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 115 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Do you have students who lack stamina and struggle when it comes to sticking with difficult texts? So does Cris Tovani. In this new video, which complements So what do they really know? her groundbreaking book on formative assessment, she takes you inside the classroom, where she faces the same challenges you do. Follow Cris as she confers with Irving and guides him to access and connect his background knowledge, or as she buckles down with Israel...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wanted to sit down beside a master teacher and see how he or she confers? In this video, join Patrick Allen, author of Conferring: the keystone to reader's workshop, as he confers with nine different students over the course of two days. Sitting down one-on-one with a student in a conference is the best way to differentiate instruction so all students can learn the comprehension skills and strategies that wise readers use. Patrick demonstrates...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ."
What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's life as she read Vincent's diaries and began to learn about the high school student she had taught twenty-five years before. A Boy I...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he's bullied by his new classmates. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Airi Sano. After spending her entire childhood moving from one military base to another, she's excited to be settling down for the long-term in Hawai'i. She's less excited about her new teacher, who's determined to make Airi like school. But she's got a plan: prank her teacher so hard that she gives up on even trying to get Airi to do any work-especially any reading. But Mrs. Ashton won't give up, no matter what Airi does. Airi will need the...
48) Scarborough
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a once glamorous hotel, two couples laugh, quarrel, and make love as they come to terms with the impossibility of their forbidden love. At barely sixteen years old, two of them are still in school and the others, their teachers. Part love story and probing social commentary.
49) The history boys
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 9
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While accompanying his mother at the deli, Hank suffers a series of embarrassing accidents that cause teachers visiting the deli to go hungry, a situation that compels him to express his appreciation for his teachers' hard work.
51) Dear Medusa
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school--whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the...
52) Larry Crowne
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher. Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live.
53) Ciao, professore
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of an upper-class teacher from conservative Northern Italy who, due to a computer error, finds himself teaching third-grade truants at a ramshackle school in the south.
54) In the house
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A teacher in a 1920s Scottish girls' school captivates her students with her fascist ideals and free-thinking attitude.
"*** Boasting an excellent DVD transfer...features a sharp commentary track...Recommended."--Video Librarian
56) Antlers
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become entangled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to horrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature who came before them.
57) Monsieur Lazhar
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lazhar tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher. Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, offers the school his services as a substitute teacher and is quickly hired. As he helps the children heal, he also learns to accept his own painful past. This moving film features exquisite performances by Fellag...
58) If
Series
Criterion collection volume 391
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1968.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1995
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a serious musician who reluctantly enters the teaching profession to remain afloat financially and discovers that his true passion is teaching.
60) The 400 blows
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
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