A+ Teachers: How to Empower Your Child’s Teacher, and Your Child, to Excellence (By Erika V. Shearin Karres, Ed.D., Andrews McMeel Publishing, 256 pages, paperback, $9.95) Parents, teachers and administrators all share a common goal – ensuring their children reach their full educational potential. A+ Teachers provides a revolutionary approach for parents to improve the teaching in their local schools. Putting an emphasis on the positive effects of cooperation between everyone involved, the book shows parents how to better support their kids’ teachers. By looking at what goes on in the classroom, parents can actively contribute to the educational success of their child. This groundbreaking book reveals the basic teaching skills every educator must master to be successful – planning and preparation, instructional presentation and knowledge, student management, testing and teacher personality. There are steps parents learn for working with teachers, the school administration and the PTA to ensure all educators in their local schools acquire these critical skills if they don’t already possess them.