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Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School

Steve Poizner

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Description:A Silicon Valley entrepreneur takes on the challenge of a 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 writes, "Often I came to ask myself one 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School. To get started finding Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 259

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Portfolio

Release: 2010

ISBN: 1101222921

Description: A Silicon Valley entrepreneur takes on the challenge of a 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 writes, "Often I came to ask myself one 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School. To get started finding Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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