Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me
Description
The inspiring true story of a teacher’s experiences with her students
and the life lessons she learned that can help others find joy and
success.Crash Course chronicles the life lessons that Kim Bearden has learned during an award-winning career in education that has spanned three decades. Kim has taught more than 2,000 students, and each has shown her something about the world and the abundant capacity for love, resilience, and appreciation that we all possess. By sharing her students’ stories, she teaches their
inspiring lessons to us all.Throughout
the ups and downs of her professional and personal life, Kim found that
her students were the light that illuminated her path; they were her
sanctuary in the storm. From her challenges as a first year teacher, to
her triumphs as the cofounder of the highly acclaimed Ron Clark Academy,
Kim shares how children can teach each of us the importance of building
relationships, abandoning fear, embracing one’s unique gifts, and
living with passion.
Full
of honesty, humor, heartbreak, and humanity, Kim’s experiences show how
children can help any one of us, despite life’s obstacles, find the joy
and significance in both our personal and professional lives.
