The StarShine Effect

by Trish A. McCarty, Scott Lerman (Illustrator), Cinda Firestone (Editor)

Trish McCarty is changing how and what we learn and when. As a young executive for AT&T she had to attend frequent executive training classes and wondered why she had not learned these things in kindergarten. As her success continued, she became a powerful banker, leveraging technology she had learned at AT&T to help create one of the first inter-active mortgage loan applications on the Internet. A seminar and book junkie, she kept discovering the most simple of truths that if taught in grade school, would have helped her success much earlier. The horror of 9/11 and her own personal experiences caused her to want to redesign how, what and when we are all taught, beginning at the youngest of ages. Pursuing her dream, she left banking in 2002 to open a model demonstration sight charter school in what was once one of the most violent crime areas in Arizona....she now sows schools and Teachers As Leaders training, like seeds throughout the world. Here is some of what she learned and what she teaches...

284 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 10, 2012