The Ladder to Success: 12 Leadership Steps for Children and Teens to Accomplish a Rewarding Career and a Great Life is written with a common sense approach to provide simple and effective strategies for helping our youth achieve lifelong success and happiness.
Whether a child in your life is 2 years old or 22 years old, this book is for you. If a young person who is significant in your life is struggling with difficult issues and is in need of help, this book can guide you through those tough challenges. Even if a child in your life is a high achiever and aspires to achieve great things in life, this book is for you. If you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, administrator, coach or even a close family friend, this book can help you unlock the keys to achieving success for young people. Anyone who has an impact on a child’s life (from early childhood through college) would benefit from the insight provided in this outstanding resource. Even teens, college students or young adults could read and directly gain a new perspective through these 12 steps on achieving lifelong success. Many students who have utilized the characteristics outlined in this book have gone on to accomplish great things in their lives.
These 12 simple steps will help you make sense of the rapidly changing obstacles our youth face today. The Ladder to Success will be instrumental in helping guide the children in your life on the right path to becoming successful adults and our future leaders. It could change a young person's life forever!
Noel Crum is currently the principal at Johnson Central High School. He has over twenty years of experience in the field of education as he has served in the capacity of teacher, curriculum director, CTE principal, high school principal and district level administrator. He designed new career pathways which led to the creation of the Johnson Central Career and Technical Center where he served as the first principal. He has given numerous presentations across the United States on career pathways and youth leadership. He and his wife Stacy have three children (Reiley, Ally, and Sawyer) and live just outside of Paintsville, Kentucky.
Dr. Rocky Wallace is Associate Professor, Graduate Education, and is the Coordinator of the Principal Licensure Program at Asbury University. He is a former principal of a Kentucky and U.S. Blue Ribbon School, and has authored four previous books on the topics of principalship and servant leadership. He has also co- authored three other books on the connection between healthy relationships in the classroom and school culture. He and his wife Denise have two daughters, Lauren (husband Ely), and Bethany (husband Troy), and live on 16 acres in the country near Paris, Kentucky.
