Nothing's impossible : leadership lessons from inside and outside the classroom / Lorraine Monroe.

Author: Monroe, Lorraine.

Edition Statement:1st PublicAffairs ed.

Imprint:New York : PublicAffairs, 1999.

Descriptionxiii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1997.

Note:Includes index.

Note:An educator's story that focuses on leadership lessons, this book traces Monroe's life from her poor Harlem beginnings, her undergraduate study at Hunter College, to her principalship of Harlem's Frederick Douglass Academy. The story is an optimistic one, describing how Monroe gracefully weathered personal and professional problems--physical and psychological abuse of her mother by her father, subtle and overt racism, incompetent educators. The author emphasizes her "Monroe Doctrine," a long list of educational principles and skills that she learned from those around her: from her father, how to silence a room with personal intensity and always to take chances; from her mother, the steadying power of rhythm, ritual, and predictability. Her educational beliefs include requiring school uniforms, demanding order, persevering, rewarding innovation, believing absolutely in kids, teaching to standardized tests, keeping a positive attitude, and creating a fun (even corny) school environment.... -- from a Choice review

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