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

Description

Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who “stands 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 “Essential reading.” In 2010,
Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy,
in one of America’s poorest communities, in a record heat wave—and crime wave.
Everything was an uphill battle—to get the school approved, to recruit faculty
and students, to solve a million new problems every day, from violent crime to
vanishing supplies—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. Things were at a low ebb for
everyone when one of her students told a photographer that his principal, “Ms.
Lopez,” was the person who most influenced his life. The posting on Brandon
Stanton’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 school—Harvard. 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, “There are hundreds of Ms. Lopezes around this country doing
good work for kids. This honors all of them.” Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Viking (August 30, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1101980257
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 55
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 8.6 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #1,715,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,032 in Educator Biographies #4,580 in Black & African American Biographies #18,261 in Education Theory (Books)
• #1,032 in Educator Biographies
• #4,580 in Black & African American Biographies