The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough

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The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World

Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who Â â€œstands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls Â "Essential reading."
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In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy, in one of Americaâ€™s poorest communities, in a record heat waveâ€”and crime wave. Everything was an uphill battleâ€”to get the school approved, to recruit faculty and students, to solve a million new problems every day, from violent crime to vanishing suppliesâ€”but Lopez was determined to break the downward spiral that had trapped too many inner-city children. The lessons came fast: unengaged teachers, wayward students, and the educational system itself, rarely in tune with the already disadvantaged and underprepared.
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Things were at a low ebb for everyone when one of her students told a photographer that his principal, â€œMs. Lopez,â€ was the person who most influenced his life. The posting on Brandon Stantonâ€™s Humans of New York site was the pebble that started a lucky landslide for Lopez and her team. Lopez found herself in the national spotlight and headed for a meeting with President Obama, as well as the beneficiary of a million-dollar campaign for the school, to fund her next dream: a field trip for her students to visit another schoolâ€”Harvard.
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The Bridge to Brilliance is a book filled with common sense and caring that will carry her message to communities and classrooms far from Brooklyn. As she says, modestly, â€œThere are hundreds of Ms. Lopezes around this country doing good work for kids. This honors all of them.â€

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781101980279
Format Kindle eBook
Label Viking
Manufacturer Viking
NumberOfPages 282
PublicationDate 2016-08-30
Publisher Viking
ReleaseDate 2016-08-30
Studio Viking

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101980279
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Viking
Manufacturer	Viking
NumberOfPages	282
PublicationDate	2016-08-30
Publisher	Viking
ReleaseDate	2016-08-30
Studio	Viking

The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World

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