The Ideal Classroom: Top 10 Secrets to Successful Classroom Management, Grades K-3: A Blueprint to Innovative Learning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781460902493)

Debbie Koplin has a passion for children and learning. She is known for her innovation and creativity. She is a graduate of the University of Houston in Texas, with a degree in Elementary Education and Speech and with postgraduate work in Early Childhood Education and the Montessori Method. She is renowned in her profession and has achieved many accomplishments during her thirty glorious years as an educator of young children. She is now retired and states that sharing ideas over the years with teachers, colleagues, and administrators has been truly rewarding and fulfilling. On a personal note, Debbie now spends much of her time pursuing her love of nature, the ocean, traveling, and sailing. She frequently crosses the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean on her sailing sloop Wind Dancer with her husband, Dave and her "sailor" dog, Foxy. She is often visited in the tropics by her daughter, Caris and her son, Stuart. When at home in League City, Texas, she enjoys working with stained glass and painting with acrylics. She also continues to promote an innovative approach to education by authoring instructional books and guides for teachers. Though "The Ideal Classroom: Top 10 Secrets to Successful Classroom Management" is her first book to be published, several others are in rough draft and will be made available soon. Future titles to be watching for include: "Look to the Rainbow" - songs and poetry for children, "Children's Theater: The Art of the Possible" - precious, practical plays for school performances, and "Sing a Song of Learning" - a nine part guide which integrates the curriculum through thematic units, songs, and poetry for each month of the year. Debbie encourages you all to live life to its fullest and to always follow your dreams, for they really do come true.