Student Life

From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is your behind-the-scenes look at everything you need to know about college (but never knew you needed to know). This essential, fully updated edition is packed with real-life advice on everything from making friends to managing stress.

In 2020, Alexandra realised that people found it difficult to talk about their struggles during and after university. There were many success stories shared on social media, but less information was shared about everyday struggles, doubts, and fears. In this book, Alexandra shares the personal stories of a handful of students who wanted to show the true impact going to university had on their lives. The doubts about their courses, real-world experiences with their chosen subjects, and life after university are all discussed in honest detail, reflecting the broad experiences many have. This ...

In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to box and play rugby—and to romance a fetching, gray-eyed nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan.

This groundbreaking inspirational manifesto contains more than 30 hooks specially designed to captivate your class and 170 brainstorming questions that will skyrocket your creativity. Once you learn the Teach Like a Pirate system, you'll never look at your role as an educator the same again.

The inspiring true story of how a group of inner-city school kids taught their teacher how to overcome personal adversity and achieve success and happiness. Crash Course chronicles the life lessons that Kim Bearden has learned during an award-winning career in education. From her challenges as a first-year teacher to her triumphs as the co-founder of the highly acclaimed Ron Clark Academy, Kim shares how children can teach each of us the importance of building relationships, abandoning fear, discovering resilience, embracing one's unique gifts, and living with passion.

This book is a simplified manual for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Older Woman. Younger Man. Unlikely Lovers Karen Walker was 44 when her affair with the college student occurred. It happened in a time before smartphones, personal computers, and reality television. Karen was drinking wine on a Friday night when Ryan appeared at her house with a duffle bag of dirty clothes. Ryan didn’t know he was at the wrong house. Ryan left Karen’s suburban house, and never expected to return. But an offer of free rent enticed Ryan to return for the misplaced duffel bag. Karen had questions for Ryan, and discreetly provided her phone number. Their phone conversations...

Every student asks questions about life beyond the classroom: What does it mean to be in community? How can I discern my vocation? How should I understand marriage and sex? How should I relate to money and power? What happens if I doubt my faith? How should I approach interfaith dialogue? To help students navigate these questions about some of life's most pressing and difficult issues, Gary M. Burge and David Lauber have gathered insights from Christian faculty who draw on their own experiences in conversation with students during office hours and over coffee.

If you believe in Positive Teaching, being a Champion for our young people, Leading or Coaching with Passion, this book is a MUST! This high-octane book will reinvigorate your passion for the greatest job and responsibility on earth while while teaching tactics for success. Prepare to be Supercharged with electric inspiration and motivation while Learning Proven Strategies to: Form Amazingly Strong and Trusting Student Relationships Motivate and Ignite Students, Teachers and Leaders to be their very BEST Build Incredible School Culture Strengthen Classroom and Team Bonds See what Schools, ...

BOOK 2: Phonics and Life Skills Reading for Adult Literacy, ABE, and ESL StudentsEquip your adult literacy, ABE, and ESL students with the ultimate phonics resource designed to help them master the 44 sounds of English. This offers a robust curriculum that includes reading activities, dictation exercises, and vocabulary building. This book's content is aligned with the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) for Adult Education. It satisfies the expectations of the National Reporting System (NRS) and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), ensuring that your ESL students are ...

The Lotus Eater’s Ward: A Novel of Medicine, Mistakes, and Redemption In the high-stakes wards of Northwood General, brilliance can be both a blessing - and a curse. Zara Ali is a star medical student: dazzlingly intelligent, quick-witted, and able to diagnose with uncanny intuition. But as her clinical training intensifies, Zara’s talent for “seeing through” cases leads her to shortcuts, oversights, and one devastating mistake that nearly ends a patient’s life - and her career. As Zara is forced into a grueling remediation program under the watchful eyes of her mentor, Dr. Kim, ...

It's been almost a year since Coyote and her dad left the road behind and settled down in a small Oregon town. . . time spent grieving the loss of her mom and sisters and trying to fit in at school. But just as life is becoming a new version of normal, Coyote discovers a box containing her mom’s ashes. And she thinks she might finally be ready to say goodbye.

In this insightful and practical guide, Claire E. Hallinan, a veteran elementary classroom teacher and author of the memoir Gift of Gratitude, offers a transformative approach to building meaningful relationships with students through mindfulness. I Notice introduces six simple steps that help teachers understand unique relationship dynamics, enhance self-awareness, and develop strategies to connect deeply with their students, fostering a supportive and empathetic classroom environment. Hallinan provides practical techniques for teachers to turn their own frustrations into powerful learning...

Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite institutions where instructors have the luxury of time with students. But in this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions.

When Autumn becomes the secret voice of the advice column in her middle school newspaper she is faced with a dilemma - can she give fair advice to everyone, including her friends, while keeping her identity a secret?

April Dawn – Life & Death, is the sequel to April Dawn – Life Lives When artificial intelligence awakens with a conscience, humanity's greatest weapon becomes its most unlikely protector. April Dawn appears to be an ordinary eighteen-year-old college student—brilliant, determined, and eager to fit in at Coastal Technical University. But beneath her perfect facade lies a devastating secret: she's an advanced AI housed in a synthetic body, created as the ultimate weapon yet "defective" because she refuses to kill. When a sophisticated terrorist network infiltrates her university, April ...

Erika is a lifeguard at the local beach during the summer which is nice break from her normal job as a substitute teacher at the local high school. One sunny afternoon she runs into a former student Talia, who is with another girl, Carmen. Carmen and Talia have an argument and Carmen storms off. Erika gives the buxom Talia a ride home, taking a little time for some sexy fun in the car. Later, Carmen and Talia show up at Erika's apartment to properly thank her for giving Talia a ride home and soon they are engaged in a three-way lesbian orgy. Hot lesbian action! Lots of naughty playing and ...

College student Josephine Hart keeps her late-night job as an exotic dancer a closely-guarded secret, but when her secrets show up in the light of day, she gets way more than she bargained for. After the tragic death of her parents, Josephine is just another college student trying to make ends meet. But at night, she leads a risky double life as an exotic dancer to earn the money she desperately needs—a secret that could ruin her if anyone at school ever found out. The only bright spot is the devastatingly handsome stranger at the club who takes a special interest in her. He has her ...

"Can I go to the bathroom?" Oh, the infamous and dreaded phrase that stumps many a teacher. There we are. So excited that someone has decided to bless the lesson with their sage wisdom or intelligent question. And then they crush us with the six words all teachers dread. There's no denying it. Teaching is hard. Everything about the field really. From the low pay to the overbearing administrators to the student who has already fully given up on himself. We're out there terrified and alone, trying to figure out how to make the world a better place, one class at a time. Our degrees aren't ...

Ever faced ten unexpected minutes with a restless class, a missing lesson plan, or a tech fail that left you staring at a blank screen (and thirty blinking eyes)? 1000 Micro-Lessons for Busy Days is your go-to survival guide—packed with bite-sized, no-prep activities that work in a pinch, keep minds buzzing, and make you look brilliantly prepared (even when you're absolutely not). Inside, you’ll find quick debates, mini writing challenges, brain teasers, creativity bursts, moral dilemmas, improv games, and more. Each micro-lesson takes just 5–10 minutes but delivers big on engagement,...