Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School Capa dura - 2010
por Steve Poizner
A Silicon Valley entrepreneur takes on the challenge of a lifetime: teaching in one of California's toughest high schools
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. Pleasant High School. On many days, like the one when a student's boyfriend was arrested for bank robbery, his managerial and entrepreneurial skills seemed irrelevant. 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.
Poizner is currently a candidate for governor of California and on the verge of becoming a household name. But this is a memoir of a riveting personal journey, not a point-by-point account of his vision for his state. 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.
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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. Pleasant High School. On many days, like the one when a student's boyfriend was arrested for bank robbery, his managerial and entrepreneurial skills seemed irrelevant. 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.
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.
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- Título Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School
- Autor Steve Poizner
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição First Edition
- Páginas 256
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Portfolio, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Data de publicação 2010-04-01
- ISBN 9781591843450 / 1591843456
- Peso 0.96 libras (0.44 kg)
- Dimensão 9.08 x 6.38 x 0.95 in. (23.06 x 16.21 x 2.41 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP anos
- séries 13 - UP
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2009050136
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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