
How School Works • Book One
A children's series by Dr. Stacey Owens-Howard. Explore the people who make up a school community.
Use How School Works: Who Knows Me Here? A System of People to open a first-grade conversation about your school community. Read together in the classroom or school media center. Invite children to answer aloud, draw, or talk with a partner. These companion prompts connect the title's theme to children's own experiences.
Who knows your name at school?
Who can help you when you have a question?
How does our teacher help us?
How does the school librarian or media specialist help us?
What can you do to help a new classmate feel welcome?
How do people at our school work together?
Who Knows Me Here? is Book One in the How School Works series. This warm story invites children to explore relationships, belonging, identity, and what it means to be known beyond their grades, behavior, or completed work. It opens conversations families and educators can continue through classroom read-alouds, library discussions, and time together at home.

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Dr. Stacey Owens-Howard is an educator, school founder, author, and creator of the R.E.A.L. Approach: Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Academics, and Love. She is the author of the children's series How School Works, including Book One, Who Knows Me Here? A System of People. Her educator training helps teachers support at-risk students, build relationships, and create supportive classrooms.



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