"Palmer's classic teaching manual builds on the simple premise that good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, in community with their students and their subject. They possess "a capacity for connectedness" and are able to weave a complex web of connections between themselves,...

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

Himself a "discipline problem" in high school, actor Tony Danza discusses his experiences during a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Philadelphia's Northeast High School, exploring the difficulties and joys of keeping today's technologically savvy and often alienated students engaged.