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The author reveals the secrets and techniques that have made him a success as a classroom teacher including his hands-on approach to education that helps to prepare his fifth-grade students for the future.

Contains skits and related activities to teach students in fourth- through eighth-grade classrooms about positive character traits, providing lessons with two "unfinished" moral dilemmas and a written activity on kindness, forgiveness, honesty, loyalty, cooperation, teamwork, and twenty-five other themes.

The author reveals the secrets and techniques that have made him a success as a classroom teacher including his hands-on approach to education that helps to prepare his fifth-grade students for the future.

Teaches kids to set goals, resolve conflicts, show compassion, reach out to others, clarify their own thinking about values, and work cooperatively with others.

The author reflects on the #Iwishmyteacherknew movement, and how the emotional answers to this statement from students all over the world has launched more meaningful dialogue on issues of family, poverty, isolation, divorce, and hunger.