

Rosie can’t wait to start kindergarten–she’s had her pencils sharpened and her backpack ready for weeks. First Days:īutterflies on the First Day of School by Annie Silvestro, Dream Chen (Ages 3+) Sit back, relax, and read a good book about navigating school life. (5) classroom comedies: humorous school stories.Īs an educator, I can attest that so many things can happen within a school day. (4) classroom adventures: characters taking on great heroic risks (3) life lessons: experiences within and beyond the classroom (1) first days: starting school or worrying about starting school We’ve divided them into these categories: We’ve created a collection of books that highlight a few dimensions of the school experience. Whether your child is transitioning from one class to the next or one school to the next, going back full-time, part-time, or completely virtual, we want to help set you and them up to be successful and motivated to have an amazing year. Shipman has worked with middle school and high school aged students.Within the next few weeks, we’ll all be venturing back off to “school”.

Most of his time at APS was spent as a kindergarten teacher, and in 2009 he earned his Educational Specialist degree from University of West Georgia in Administration Supervision and soon after he complete his doctoral degree at Clark Atlanta University in 2013. Shipman was an elementary teacher in Atlanta Public School System. After obtain this degree, he attended Hampton University in Virginia and obtain a Master's degree in Elementary Education in 1994.

Shipman received his Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from the Tuskegee University in 1992.

Shipman hopes to make kindergarten an exciting and anticipated adventure for students, parents, and teachers, while casting an even wider net for Team Shipman.Dr. Shipman presents a positive and strong black male image that children need. Acknowledging the under-representation of black men in education, Mr. Each book in the series celebrates the male teacher, in particular the black male teacher. Shipman smile the most when he thinks about his years teaching kindergarten. Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles are the stories of teaching kindergarten that make Dr. Shipman currently teaches middle school and extends membership to Team Shipman to his current students and their families, as well.Mr. Shipman offers continual encouragement, leadership, and mentorship to his students, their families, and his professional peers. Shipman calls this ever-developing network "Team Shipman". In fact, he spent his first 11 years teaching kindergarten! He is proud to say that he built strong relationships over those years and has an incredible network of his students and their parents and co-workers that he has remained in contact with over these years. He spent much of his teaching career working with elementary aged students. Terance Shipman is a 29-year veteran teacher.
