The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World Book PDF, ePub eBook

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“The story of Mott Hall Bridges Academy is the story of American education. Nadia Lopez has given her life to building a first-rate school in a disadvantaged neighborhood. No job could be more important. She stands on the front line of the fight to educate America’s children. The battle for her students does not end with the school day. She must be a principal, a mentor, and sometimes a mother. But she fills all of these roles with an energy that has always amazed me. I hope that you’re as impressed by her dedication to these kids as I’ve been."
—Brandon Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of Humans of New York and Humans of New York Stories

The inspirational account of the creation of a pathbreaking inner-city middle school in Brooklyn, New York, by the magnetic young principal who rocketed to national fame via Humans of New York
 
When thirteen-year-old Vidal Chastanet told photographer Brandon Stanton that his principal ,“Ms. Lopez,” was the person who most influenced his life, it was the pebble that started a whirlwind for Nadia Lopez and her small, new public school in one of Brooklyn’s most wretched communities. The posting on Stanton’s wildly popular site Humans of New York (HONY) went mega-viral. Lopez—not long before on the verge of quitting—found herself in the national spotlight and headed for a meeting with Obama, as well as the beneficiary of a million-dollar IndieGoGo campaign for the school. Here is her first-person account of what it took to get to that moment.

Mott Hall Bridges Academy isn’t just a hallway inside a typically underserved public school in one of New York City’s most underprivileged communities—it is a school that glows with energy and excitement. Lopez tells the kids every day that they’re extraordinary and that she loves them. When trouble stirs, she asks: “Would I have been proud to see what happened in that classroom? No? Then why did it happen?” She tells her teachers: “Don’t tell me our scholars can’t learn; because if you can’t teach them, then I’ll come teach your class for a couple of weeks.”

Everything was an uphill battle—to get the school launched, to recruit faculty and students, to solve a million new problems every day, from violent crime to vanishing supplies, but Lopez illustrates how leadership often means just picking the right people to support you. In middle school, one year lost with an unengaged teacher is a year that can send a kid down a terrible path. And then, of course, there is the educational system itself, how “teaching to the test” is an enormous problem, particularly in schools with kids who are already disadvantaged and underprepared.

The Bridge to Brilliance is a book filled with common sense and caring that will carry her message to classrooms far from Brooklyn. As she says, modestly, “There are hundreds of Ms. Lopezes around this country doing good work for kids. This honors all of them.”


From the Hardcover edition.

The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World by Nadia Lopez, Rebecca Paley

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