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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Dr. Patricia Pickles, author of Are You In A Pickle? Lessons Learned Along The Way: Students’ Performance And Achievement Gaps

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Dr. Patricia Pickles, author of Are You In A Pickle? Lessons Learned Along The Way: Students’ Performance And Achievement Gaps
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“Are You In a Pickle?” addresses improving students’ performance and closing achievement gaps among all populations and zip codes. Through proven research-based practices that work, the reader gains insight into specific strategies, tactics and techniques that work for K-12 educators and leaders.

Dr. Pickles bluntly addresses politics and personal agenda’s that can demise results. Readers are encouraged to learn from life experiences by reflecting on the past, acting on the present and embracing the future.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Are You In A Pickle? Lessons Learned Along The Way: Students’ Performance And Achievement Gaps”?

Dr. Patricia Pickles: Approximately 2% of African American women in the US serve as superintendent of schools. It was a very lonely journey. I want to assist others who may need support in there quest to improve students’ performance and quality of life for all American’s.

Whether at the classroom, school, or district level, under my leadership, performance always improved. I wanted to leave a record of action-based-research techniques that work.

JP: What sets “Are You In A Pickle? Lessons Learned Along The Way: Students’ Performance And Achievement Gaps” apart from other books in the same genre?

PLP: Although there are many books on improving students performance and closing achievement gaps, very few authors have actually served as a teacher, principal and superintendent of schools; in other words she was actually in the trenches.

Further, you will not find “Are You In a Pickle?” on the shelves of your typical classrooms or in education leadership classes at the universities. I prepare the readers for real world experiences. While I learned about collaborative and autocratic leadership styles, I was not prepared for the top dog, the accommodating under-miner, or one who sabotages.

JP: As an author, what are the keys to your success that led to “Are You In A Pickle? Lessons Learned Along The Way: Students’ Performance And Achievement Gaps” getting out to the public?

PLP: I have a proven and national brand for being an advocate for children, securing needed resources, creating schools of excellence, and empowering communities.

JP: As an author, what is your writing process? How long did it take you to start and finish “Are You In A Pickle? Lessons Learned Along The Way: Students’ Performance And Achievement Gaps”?

PLP: It took me two years to write “Are You In a Pickle?”. I am a reflective writer. While I share successful strategies, I also took time to reflect on how I could have done things differently and more effectively. I candidly share this information with the reader.

JP: What’s next for Dr. Patricia Pickles?

PLP: I am currently working on my second book. The book will be for families, communities, organizations and institutions that deal with individuals who are intellectually challenged.

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Ruby S. Garnett, author of Soul Sacrifice: One Story of Many

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Ruby S. Garnett, author of Soul Sacrifice: One Story of Many
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“Soul Sacrifice” is a shockingly true account of part of my adolescence and early adulthood living as as a Muslim woman and one of the wives of Malachi York, leader of what is now called The Nuwabian Nation – one of the nations largest cults. He was given one of the stiffest penalties for child sexual abuse in history.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Soul Sacrifice: One Story of Many”?

Ruby S. Garnett: I began writing “Soul Sacrifice” for therapeutic reasons until I continued to hear how the victims were being called liars and were Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Ruby S. Garnett, author of Soul Sacrifice: One Story of Many →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday

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Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday
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Waiting For Monday details the backward, fragmented life of an uneducated family in West Tennessee. Like the area they live in, the Holder family struggles against coming of age over several decades.

The youngest girl in the Holder family has a knack for challenging the family, stretching their patience and finding herself alone in dangerous, even life threatening battles.

Only some unlikely awakening of her family’s conscious or the reveal of their shocking secrets will give the growing child a chance to thrive live out her beliefs. But first she will have to survive…

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Waiting For Monday?

Janet Throneberry: Keeping in mind Waiting for Monday is fictional, I was blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with a keen memory of Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday →