Teaching for the first time? You know the big picture--Bloom, Piaget, Skinner, Marzano, Ruby Payne, et al. What about the little things? The day-to-day stuff? This book was written to help beginning teachers with those sorts of things--the nuts and bolts. I wish a resource like this was available when I started teaching in 1985, and I hope that this book will help you thrive in your first year in the classroom.