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In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and clarify her life as never before. She and a colleague, Tobin Simon, introduced this original method into their classrooms.

What happens when a 45-year-old Baby Boomer goes back to teach high school and finds the students are more in touch with reality than his colleagues and supervisors?

The Future is Bright: How Gem Prep is Reimaging Education and Building Tomorrow's Leaders captures the essence of how some of America's best schools are transforming education and the next generation. Gem Prep schools utilize strong academics, competency development, and exposure to a variety of experiences to prepare today's students to be tomorrow's leaders. Gem Prep's approach to education places students in the driver's seat of their education as they incrementally take ownership of their education and their future.

Who Connects Your Dots? builds on the foundation of the need to critically think about what is happening in the world around you and even to you! Your eyes will be opened to what the media is now permitted to propagate to you and for how long this has been occurring. Critical thinking is an extremely vital process of analyzing information from opposing sides. This method of thinking is based on asking questions from an unbiased perspective, equally weighing all data. This allows you to thoroughly analyze the entire scenario and become vastly informed.

Medically Speaking, Who Connects Your Dots? builds on the foundation of the need to critically think about what is happening medically in the world around you and even to you! Your eyes will be open about what the media is now permitted to "medically propagate" to you and for how long this has been occurring. Critical thinking is an extremely vital process of analyzing information--from opposing sides! This method of thinking is based on asking questions from an unbiased perspective, equally weighing all the data.

I don't know a single person who wouldn't want to be more successful in their communication style. We could all use some assistance, and that's exactly what this easy-to-understand book has to offer.

Stories of a Volunteeraholic is written from the stories and experiences of one person's volunteer journey over forty years, but none of the projects, programs, or events were done single-handedly. Our country has the opportunity coming out of the pandemic to pivot and embrace working together in new ways and in better ways--if the everyday person chooses to engage in the small ways to prepare for the big ways.

Literal alliteration at its finest! Stories born out of the world of Animalia for every letter, to make you ponder.

For the Good of All and to the Harm of None is a nonfiction writing that proposes viewing the world through a philanthropic lens and what that could mean for humanity. Using the definition of philanthropy as engaging in endeavors that advance the well-being of humanity, we must address the idea of what constitutes humanity in the face of the social construct of race.

Unexpected Joy is a book about an inspirational young man who makes friends everywhere he goes. He is not like everyone else. He has special needs. He has taken his father and others on a journey they did not choose. His father learned to embrace the journey over many years. This is a story of struggle, depression, deliverance, redemption, acceptance, and eventually joy wrapped in an adventure of a lifetime of challenges.

Unlock the Leader Within You at Any Age! Are you ready for a transformative journey that defies conventional wisdom about leadership? "Lifespan Leadership" is not just another book about leadership theories--it's a groundbreaking exploration that uncovers the hidden facets of leadership at every stage of life.