This audiobook guides a teacher, new or experienced, through the process of setting up and managing a successful classroom that can be used for any grade level, pre-K through college, at any time of year. More than 2,114 college courses, hundreds of school districts, and more than 120 nations utilize the book. It is both inspirational and useful. Above all, however, it functions! Regarding classroom strategies that promote teacher and student...

France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...