A Matter Of Panache - The Book |
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| Part III: INSIDE THE BOX - click here to read excerpt "But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat. “We’re all mad here." Alice and the Cheshire Cat |
| Part IV: THE GORDIAN KNOT - click here to read excerpt "It would be so nice if something made sense for a change." Alice |
| Part I: IN THE BEGINNING - click here to read excerpt "The adventures first…explanations take such a dreadfully long time." The Gryphon to Alice |
Come meet Evan, the fifteen year old boy at risk for committing acts of school violence; Simon who, after an ATV accident, had to have a piece of his brain removed; Mary, the grandmother and guardian of Evan who is diagnosed with seven personalities herself; Angela and Charlie, two emotionally troubled kindergarten children in a remote Alaskan village school; and so many more students and families...... Come meet the high level administrators found in Alaska, Utah and Colorado—some of whom seem to wield their power wisely; others who appear to abuse it shamelessly, violating the rights of the very children they are there to serve. And come meet me—at first a “tundra-trekking, village-hopping school psychologist;” and later as someone with a head injury that left me second guessing my every action, interaction and reaction. Left me--an award winning educational psychologist who had practiced successfully for over twenty years-- suddenly unable to effect change in the field which for so long had defined the very core of who I was. |
| Part II: THE INJURY - click here to read excerpt "I’m very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache." Humpty Dumpty to Alice |