What Is The Book Think Like A Success By Steve Harvey

Just as there are major benefits to exercising and eating healthy for individuals and those around them, there are positive outcomes for principals and their schools when choosing to lead with a learning community approach. However, we all know that both tasks are difficult and require knowledge, commitment, time and most of all I believe heart. It is the heart that builds and strengthens commitment and the patience necessary over time to obtain desired results. Also, I believe the heart energizes individuals with courage to face fears, day-to-day challenges, and the endurance to withstand change, whether good or bad. While knowledge, commitment, and time are essential to both healthy living and leadership, they will not ensure success

I contemplated a career change after 19 successful years as a classroom, resource teacher and a library media specialist. I started thinking about becoming a certified financial planner. Yes, I did! I became frustrated and tired of witnessing and sometimes a part of the problem when it came to teachers not having the autonomy to teach the way they wanted and students not given enough time and resources to learn in they that was best for them. The drive and fulfillment to make a difference was slowly diminishing. I remember reading Steve Harvey’s new book Think Like a Success, Act Like a Success and revisiting Rick Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Life. I was on a soul-searching journey. Fortunately, I discovered that my heart was still in education but had grown over the years with a desire to be a part of the solution to improve teaching and learning on a broader level, beyond the classroom or a grade level team. I still had passion for the field but needed to change my focus and efforts to regain purpose and meaning for my work. Over the years, I apparently gained new and extended perspectives which led to a whole new purpose. I not only wanted to make a difference in the lives of children but teachers, too. A growing passion for teachers and the work they are doing or trying has become more important to me. This is where intrinsic

I believe this to be true for two reasons. First, as the Summer School Coordinator along with an awesome team of teachers was able to help students improve math skills and Reading comprehension in a way that we could not do during the regular school year due larger class sizes and other factors. We were able to group students based on skills that needed to be developed and mastered rather than by grade level. We used a blended learning approach, which allowed teachers to rotate students in small groups to engage in direct small group instruction and practice using a computer assistance program. It was powerful and fulfilling to be involved in a process where we had total autonomy to be creative in meeting the individual needs of students. As a team, we concluded summer school feeling just as successful as the students with all the improvements. Students showed tremendous progress in math and Reading, while the teaching team improved the way we managed, approach, and designed student