Description
A blueprint for a way folks can prevent being worried approximately their youngsters’s long run and get started serving to them get ready for it, from the cofounder and CEO of one in all The us’s so much cutting edge public-faculty networks
BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • “A treasure trove of deeply sensible knowledge that accords with the whole thing I find out about how youngsters thrive.”—Angela Duckworth, New York Instances bestselling writer of Grit
An educator and mom, Diane Tavenner cofounded the primary Summit faculty in 2003. Summit Public Faculties has received nationwide reputation as a result of 99 p.c of Summit scholars get right into a 4-yr school, and Summit scholars end school at two times the nationwide reasonable. However in an intensive departure from the environments created by means of the varsity admissions palms race, Summit scholars aren’t interested by competing with their classmates for rankings or take a look at rankings. As a substitute, scholars spend their days fixing actual-international issues and growing the talents of self-course, collaboration, and mirrored image, all of which get ready them to achieve school, thrive in these days’s place of job, and lead a protected and fulfilled existence.
Today, lots of educators, tens of lots of scholars, and masses of colleges throughout thirty-8 states and the District of Columbia have embraced the Summit fashion.
Through private tales and the hard earned courses of Summit’s remarkable group of educators and various scholars, Diane Tavenner stocks the underlying finding out philosophies and unconventional knowledge that result in all youngsters being ready for college and existence.
Advance reward for Prepared
“In an international full of plenty of parenting recommendation, Prepared cuts throughout the noise, providing a no-nonsense information for elevating curious, assured youngsters. Diane stocks the name of the game sauce at the back of Summit’s success and the way we will be able to ensure that all youngsters will have the similar possibility.”—Jon Deane, CEO of GreatSchools
“Prepared is compelling and actionable. It tells the tale of why all of us must do that paintings. We should get ready each kid, now not permit success or situation to dictate their long run—and ours.”—Dr. Priscilla Chan, CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, pediatrician, and mother
“Diane Tavenner is likely one of the major thinkers in training these days—her power and insights are infectious. There’s no one higher to suppose large approximately what youngsters want, and who can roll up her sleeves to make it occur.”—Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy
