Quiet Valor Teachers and Paraprofessionals Who Changed Lives
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
06.04.2026
Verlag
Published by Quiet Valor BooksSeitenzahl
212
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/15,7/1,6 cm
Gewicht
465 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798349255380
There are moments in schools that never make it into reports. This book is built from them. A student steadied before something breaks. A boundary held when it would be easier to bend. A decision made in seconds that carries consequences for years. Quiet Valor: Teachers and Paraprofessionals Who Changed Lives gathers these moments, not as grand gestures, but as the daily, often unseen acts that hold classrooms, and lives, together. Written by Larry Nouvel, Lara Jacobs, and Colleen White, this book moves through real classrooms and lived experience. Jacobs brings the perspective of a paraprofessional-working closer to the edges, where escalation begins, where language fails, where presence matters more than recognition. White brings that of a classroom teacher, tasked with authority and accountability every day. Different roles, different limits, but a shared responsibility: to act, often without certainty, in conditions that do not allow for perfect answers. Each chapter offers a portrait. A teacher who holds a room together not through authority but through steadiness. A paraprofessional who sees what others miss, and acts on it. People doing work that rarely gets named, in moments that rarely get recorded. These are not stories of heroism in the conventional sense. They are quieter than that, and more exacting. They show what it costs to remain steady when no one is watching, and what it means to keep showing up anyway. What emerges is not a theory of education, but an ethic. One built from accumulated decisions, from restraint as much as action, from care that does not resolve neatly and is not always rewarded. Quiet Valor does not ask for admiration. It asks for recognition-of the work that sustains schools, and of the people who carry it, day after day, largely without acknowledgment.
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