Acknowledgements

It's important for me to say thank you to a great many people that helped me put this book together from the very beginning. Each and every one of you are a part of this. Aside from the fantastic teachers featured in this book and those who were kind enough to read the book and offer their endorsements, there were many more people who I want to thank, including...

Kendra Beasley, Rita Prescott, Eric Liu, Richard Bennett, Stephen Caldwell Wright, Ghislain Viau, Taylor Sullivan, Miles J. Towne, Jonathan Towne, Ryan Blazer, Paola Sueiro, Rae Ellen McKee, Max Schlesinger, Molly Miles, Kris Henigman, Marcia Reed (and her entire 186th Street Elementary School), Mark Norman, Paul Meena, Christen Beasley, Jazmine Carrington, James & Cheryl Carrington, Mark Harris, Bill Crookston, Paul Pearson, Dottie DeHart, and Kathleen McCartney.

I also want to thank everyone at the William Morris Agency who helped me along the way, including... David Kekst, Karen Ledlow, Josh Pyatt, Jim Wiatt, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Mel Berger, Jay Mandel, Charles King, Brad Slater, Michael Cooper, Alicia Gordon, Natalie Hayden, Nicole David, Laurie Pozmantier, John Ferriter, Ray Reo, Kim Koser, Eric Zohn, Shannon Mattingly, Amparo Monsod, Anna Jones, Greg Schwartz, Greg Johnson, Kim Verbonitz, Jared Lake, Benjamin Scales, Chris Cate, Montrel McKay, and Drew Welborn.