Teach and Reach for Classroom Miracles!: Lessons on Teaching With Love

by Wendy Byard

Teach and Reach for Classroom Miracles! aims to convince teachers and leaders that love is the key to miracle-filled classrooms. When Wendy Byard first began teaching, like many instructors she thought all her students needed was a good lesson plan and an educated, well-intentioned teacher. However, on her Journey to Love, Byard realized that what God wants, and what every student truly seeks from a teacher, is the qualities of love modeled by Jesus Christ and revealed by the apostle Paul kindness, humility, generosity, and compassion, among others. What are the results of classroom love? Students who find acceptance, confidence, belief, passion, self-love, and love for others truly miraculous results! Teach and Reach for Classroom Miracles! chronicles Wendy's personal journey and shares classroom stories as well as the most compelling evidence of all for her excerpts from hundreds of student letters she s collected. The book s second section, 12 Love Lessons for Teachers, provides educators with concrete ways of expressing love and the means to create a more loving, miraculous classroom environment. Byard s inspiring, challenging message can change lives. So start loving your students today! Reach for a miracle!

147 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2009

About the author

Wendy Byard is the author of Devil in the Dunes, an engrossing kidnap suspense novel set on the charming - and often deadly - coast of Lake Michigan. Byard currently writes the column "Beyond Our Backyards" for a Michigan newspaper: The County Press. Byard is also the published author of Teach and Reach for Classroom Miracles. She was a college English and composition professor for over two decades; a magazine writer for On the Town magazine; a Special Writer for The Flint Journal; a former high school English and history teacher; and an advertising and marketing account executive for Group 243 in Ann Arbor and Grey Advertising in Chicago. Byard earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history and a master’s degree in English Education from Michigan State University. She was a writer for The State News at MSU.
She resides in Metamora, Michigan.

Reviews

[Joseph Serwach · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worked with Wendy on The State News. She wrote a great book.