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Laugh Lines for Educators

By: Diane Hodges

Bring humor to the classroom and promote fun in the school environment!

This unique collection offers humorous anecdotes, stories, jokes, and student remarks that will surely lighten the day for educators. It is just the right "pick-me-up" to bring a lighthearted note to your day and help you find the funny side of life—and your profession. Focusing on comical material concerning children, teaching, schools, colleges, and holidays, this book is a great way to bring humor into:

Speeches
Staff lounges
Bulletin boards
Meeting icebreakers
Newsletters

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412926751
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2005
Page Count: 136
Publication date: October 19, 2005

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Description

Bring humor to the classroom and promote fun in the school environment!

Laughter is the best medicine and humor really does make a positive impact. No one knows this better than best-selling author and renowned motivational speaker Diane Hodges. As a school director, Hodges often included humorous and motivational pieces in staff correspondence and on bulletin boards. To her delight, many others contributed to these messages, and this new book is filled with an array of humorous anecdotes, stories, jokes, and student remarks that will surely lighten the day for educators and promote fun in the school environment.

Focusing on amusing material about children, teaching, school, and holidays, this book is a great way to incorporate humor into:

Speeches
Staff lounges
Bulletin boards
Meeting icebreakers
Newsletters

Laugh Lines for Educators is just the right "pick-me-up" to bring a lighthearted note to your day and help you find the funny side of life—and your profession!

Key features

· Fun, funny, and touching stories
· A collection of ideas to add fun on the job, spice up written and oral communication, and liven up the school environment

Author(s)

Diane Hodges

Diane Hodges is the managing partner of Threshold Group, an educational consulting firm in San Diego. After 30+ years as an educator, she is sharing her insights through books and international speaking events. Her wit and humor have delighted audiences and readers everywhere. She has served as an executive director of career and technical education, director of instructional services, director of human resources, secondary principal, counselor, and instructor. She earned her doctorate from Michigan State University, has received twelve national and state awards, and is a best-selling author of eight books.

Table of Contents

Children

Teaching

School Daze

College

Holidays

Reviews

"I give Laugh Lines for Educators to my colleagues and friends when they need cheering up. It's guaranteed to put a smile on their faces."

Patti Kenworthy, MI Restaurant Association's Teacher of the Year
Van Buren Technology Center, Lawrence, MI

"The humorous, inspirational and thoughtful stories in Laugh Lines for Educators are great as faculty meeting starters, post-ups in the teachers' room, or as motivators in a memo."

Robert H. Smith, Principal
Moreau Hall Elementary School, North Easton, MA

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