Youth development from the trenches : a practitioner examines the research, his experience, and discovers a powerful new youth development strategy by Miller, Rick, 1947- instant download

Youth development from the trenches : a practitioner examines the research, his experience, and discovers a powerful new youth development strategy by Miller, Rick, 1947- instant download

xviii, 170 pages : 21 cm, Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168), Changing conventional wisdom -- Remembering the Pygmalion effect -- Universal truth I : missions versus beliefs -- Testing our beliefs by checking our blood pressure -- Universal truth II : the aces -- Stories of aces -- Universal truth III : mental time travel -- The framework : from bureaucracy to culture and back again -- The strategic framework in action -- Are you a treasure hunter? -- Top five practice : #1 believed and practiced here ; #2 the pledge -- power of self-talk ; #3 : the report card ; #4 passport to the future ; #5 tracing aces -- Where's the village? -- Happiest place on Earth -- Culture scan : asking the right questions -- The Anne Fox Elementary School miracle -- What we know, what we've learned -- A thought from Professor Einstein