Böcker utgivna av Expecting Excellence Press

You go from playing with friends in the backyard to playing under your school's Friday night lights. Life has a way of just flying by.Your life is all about choices. Hopefully, you will always have enough information in front of you to make good choices. Hopefully, you know yourself. Along the way, you will make good choices and bad choices. No matter what, they will be your choices.Your scholastic athletic career is quickly ending. You believe that you have what it takes to play at the next level and are determined to do so. College coaches started talking to you and recruiting you several years ago. The recruiting process has been both overwhelming and exhilarating. It is now decision time.Whether you go to a big school, a small school, a school in the country or a school in a major city, may be relatively simple and perhaps superficial choices. After reading this book and internalizing some rules outlined on these pages, you will be able to dig deep inside of yourself to figure out your best possible next step.Your game plan for life is unfolding. You need to think about the following questions:· Are you ready to compete on the next level with the best attitude and effort?· Can you keep your ego in check?· Can you accept feedback like a champion?· How tied are you to home?· How tied are you to a hometown boyfriend or girlfriend?· Are you prepared to spend some time on the bench?· Are you mentally up to the challenge?· Do you understand that your scholarship is a job?Most student athletes never give these items much thought. Will you?

You finally landed that job in a school. It's supposed to be everything you anticipated. However, after the first few days, you realize you're entirely lost. It feels as though you're swimming upstream against a strong current. You come home after work and feel like crying. You're caught in a hopeless maze. You thought schools were about the three R's. But you find reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic have been replaced by rules, routines, and relationships. And, another R looms over your head-namely-responsibility. In EduKate Me, author and former school administrator Ed Yergalonis helps you navigate your career journey. He focuses on the unwritten rules for survival in your school, the things no one told you and probably never will. He teaches you his Ten Commandments of working in a school, such as, working in a school is all about relationships and politics are everywhere. EduKate Me offers guidance in succeeding at your job and representing your school with positivity.