Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591843456 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Silicon Valley entrepreneur takes on the challenge of a lifetime: teaching in one of California's toughest high schools. Poizner writes, "Often I came to ask myself one question: What exactly are you doing here? As it turns out, I was receiving one hell of an education." Mt Pleasant is ultimately a success story, as Poizner wins Rookie Teacher of the Year honors and, more important, ensures that all his students graduate.. But on others, they helped him demonstrate how exciting it is to learn. Playing Jeopardy with the class and inviting speakers into the classroom, Poizner motivated his students by expanding their horizons far beyond their high school's walls. On many days, like the one when a student's boyfriend was arrested for bank robbery, his managerial and entrepreneurial skills seemed irrelevant. Pleasant High School. Entrepreneur Steve Poizner has run a billion dollar company, but the greatest challenge of his life was the year he spent teaching twelfth graders at San Jose's Mt
Fire Fighter 196Journey of Child Exploitation Not only is this book an obvious exploitive attempt to promote Steve Poizner's political ambitions, the book is poorly written and full of cliches. This book is a rip off of every teaching movie ever made.. said Journey of Child Exploitation. Not only is this book an obvious exploitive attempt to promote Steve Poizner's political ambitions, the book is poorly written and full of cliches. This book is a rip off of every teaching movie ever made.. simply inaccurate Steve Poizner's book seems to describe a school that is a creation of his own imagination. It bears almost no resemblance to the actual Mount Pleasant school -- as anyone who lives there, or is familiar with the area, will tell you.. misrepresentation at it's worse tarte I know the area. It's nothing like "Dangerous Minds". It's despicable that it could be misrepresented in such a way. This is gross manipulation aimed at stroking an elitist's pompous, inflated image of himself. Using lies to argue for a cause, no matter how noble, is never right. Using lies to stroke one's ego and promote self interest is unforgivable. Don't buy this book. It's a work of fiction.