Best Year Ever! provides teachers with proven classroom management strategies that can turn any classroom into a caring community, complete with high morale, infectious enthusiasm, and increased performance.

This powerful teaching guide gives you the needed tools to build a successful team where individuals work together to achieve shared goals while striving for personal best.  Instead of wasting precious time and frustration trying to continually put out brush fires in your classroom, you will have more time to enjoy doing what you entered this profession to do.  Teach!

You will discover how to create a learning environment where...

• People care for one another.
• There is trust between teachers, students and parents.
• There are no feelings of "Us vs. Them."
• Everyone feels they have worth and respect.
• Spirits are high.
• Students work together, solve problems, and generate new ideas to enhance learning.
• The positive environment encourages students to take risks and try new ideas.
• Mistakes are seen as a chance to grow.
• Students help other students because they feel confident and good about themselves.
• Pride shows through in everything.
• Students are happy.
• Parents are unified.

"Bill's philosophy of the "Best Year Ever!" is something that all schools and teachers can adopt, and it will begin to add value immediately."  -- Tom Watkins, Michigan Superintendent of Schools, 2001-2005

Bill Cecil is a twenty-year veteran classroom teacher who served as Michigan Teacher of the Year in 2003-2004.