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Parents and educators have the same desire: to hear students exclaim, ""School is challenging, but I love it!"" Unfortunately, our current education system does very little to produce these results. Why? Because we donot know how to preserve and grow students' intrinsic motivation. That is the focus of How to Create a Perfect School. Lee Jenkins wrote this invaluable guide to share the proven processes he has developed which encouragestudents to work hard and enjoy learning. These processes include: organizing student input to maintain their kindergarten level of intrinsic motivation replacing school practices that destroy motivation with ones that accelerate motivation honoring every student for outperforming their own best work adding up every student's contribution for team totals creating students who can clearly explain the learning process to any interested adult. Do these processes really work? Yes! This method has been tested with more than 7500 students, and the results are in. Teachers using this method see an increase in classroom learning by six times the nationalaverage. Do you want this to be your school? Then look no further. How to Create a Perfect School is the book you need to lead your students into long-lasting, student-driven academic success.

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""As an administrator, I just love visiting classrooms to observe the results of Lee Jenkins' work. The evidence of students' progress is visible on charts and students' faces."" - Julie Otero, Superintendent, South Central Unified School District 5, Nelson, Nebraska ""Lee Jenkins has spent almost three decades refining processes and practices that have been proven to produce radical results in improved student performance. Inside How to Create a Perfect School you will find a wealth of practical information that will help you transform your school. Following Lee's suggestions, you will indeed have students saying, 'I can't wait to get to school today!'"" - David Hurst, Vice President AdvancED, the international organization accrediting over 30,000 schools ""The Jenkins curve needs to be framed in the Education Hall of Fame. It is powerful, scary and actionable. Schools MUST be inviting places for students to come and learn. How to Create a Perfect School details the interventions, the research and the inspirations to dramatically push this curve upward."" - John Hattie, author of Visible Learning and Laureate Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Melbourne, Australia

As an administrator, I just love visiting classrooms to observe the results of Lee Jenkins' work. The evidence of students' progress is visible on charts and students' faces. - Julie Otero, Superintendent, South Central Unified School District 5, Nelson, Nebraska Lee Jenkins has spent almost three decades refining processes and practices that have been proven to produce radical results in improved student performance. Inside How to Create a Perfect School you will find a wealth of practical information that will help you transform your school. Following Lee's suggestions, you will indeed have students saying, 'I can't wait to get to school today!' - David Hurst, Vice President AdvancED, the international organization accrediting over 30,000 schools The Jenkins curve needs to be framed in the Education Hall of Fame. It is powerful, scary and actionable. Schools MUST be inviting places for students to come and learn. How to Create a Perfect School details the interventions, the research and the inspirations to dramatically push this curve upward. - John Hattie, author of Visible Learning and Laureate Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Melbourne, Australia

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Lee Jenkins' most recent education book is entitled How to Create a Perfect School: Maintain Students' Motivation and Love of Learning from Kindergarten through 12th Grade. He describes the major education habits that destroy kids love of learning and replacements for each of these inherited practices.Unfortunately, the loss of the intrinsic desire to learn for far too many children, begins with school reading programs. This need not occur. With Lee's early readers, both Bible and Aesop, parents and teachers together can make learning to read so joyful that kids forget how they learned to read. Concurrently, the stories can be so powerful they are remembered for life.Lee Jenkins is a career public school educator who provides staff development and keynotes based upon his process described in How to Create a Perfect School. He works with public, charter and Christian (Protestant and Catholic) schools delivering the same replacements for poor inherited schooling habits. Jack Canfield is an award-winning speaker and an internationally recognized leader in personal development and peak performance strategies. As the beloved originator of the CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL(R) series, he's taught millions of individuals his modernized formulas for success, and now certifies trainers to teach his content and methodology all over the world.Jack is the author and co-author of more than 150 books (including 66 bestsellers) with more than 100 million copies in print in 47 languages around the world. His bestselling book, THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES: HOW TO GET FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE has been hailed as the new self-improvement classic. In 2014, SUCCESS magazine named him One of the Most Influential Leaders in Personal Growth and Achievement. He holds the Guinness World Record for having the greatest number of books on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time. Angela Willnerd, first grade teacher in Fremont, Nebraska, uses math manipulatives to illustrate effect sizes to her students. The four cubes in her left hand represent the average effect size of .40 from over 250 influences upon student learning. She uses this visual to explain that an effect size of .80 is double the learning of a .40, an effect size of 1.20 is triple the learning of a .40 and so on. The 23 cubes in Ms. Willnerd's right hand represent almost six times the average learning from classrooms utilizing the processes explained in How to Create a Perfect School.

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