Be the Adult: How to Make a Positive Difference in Your Students' Lives

Hoopes, F Lance

ISBN 10: 1663261628 / ISBN 13: 9781663261625

Published by iUniverse, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Be the Adult: How to Make a Positive Difference in Your Students' Lives
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1663261628
• ISBN 13: 9781663261625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

I will never forget the moment I first learned to "Be the Adult." It was in my first job as an administrator after many years of teaching. I bested a kid in a passionate argument and sent him back to class while my boss and mentor looked on. I glowed with pride until he quietly deflated me with the five words that changed the rest of my career: "Remember, Lance: You're the adult." That phrase floods my mind with stories, the stories in this book. Some are heroic, some are embarrassing, but all of them can help you learn what I learned. I had to be the adult in a band room facing hostile kids, and facing students who played a passage so beautifully it brought tears to my eyes. I had to be the adult on 110-degree Tucson, Arizona, football fields, in band buses far from home - and facing concerned superintendents and furious teachers as an administrator. Schools can and do change students for the better, but only on one condition: Someone has to Be the Adult.