BOOKS FOR PURCHASE
FIRST BOOK
Reflections of the Journey: An Interactive Guide to Help Individuals Discover and Sustain Greatness
A Case for Increasing Access to Informational Text as a Strategy for Meeting the College and Career Readiness Standards and Providing ongoing Mentoring and Leadership Development.
This text promotes best practices for meeting and exceeding the Mentoring and College and Career Readiness Standards for Literacy Skill Development. Its commonsense approach, rich wisdom, and sage advice makes it a must read for a range of purposes. Readers can increase success in schooling, the workplace, and society. Both youth and adults will benefit from reading this book. Educators can use this book as an informational text for authentic purposes by explicitly teaching students critical thinking, close reading, text complexity, comprehension strategies, reader-response, Socratic Dialogue, and meaning making. Educators and parents can read this book along with students to model their personal reading habits—differentiating instructional practices and increasing student cognition and motivation. Readers will gain a better understanding of themselves and others in the world. A true Acceleration-to-College and Career aspiration… A true Commitment to Graduation Model! A motivational Literacy tool to teach Success for both students and adults within the educational arena!
SECOND BOOK
Clarity: My Proposition 48… From Setback to Success
This book is about Clarity and what it takes to yearn, discover, and embrace it. In this book I share some harsh truths about success. Success is nothing more than a portfolio of failures neatly packaged together and designed to enter your life at the right time. In this book I reveal to you what it takes to ignite the fire and desire to melt away the collection of frozen aspirations that once existed in my life. My Proposition 48…from Setback to Success is a true testament on how to decrease the distance between problems and solutions by vigorously running towards your problems. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. This text represents parallels on how my life’s aspirations mirrored my little league, high school, college and professional football aspirations.
"You are not who you think you are, You are what you hide! …Shine your Light on the World"– Kevin Harris, Sr., Ed. D.
THIRD BOOK (Coming soon ...)
Father to Son: The Dream Preferred
Father to Son Poem
Kevin Harris, Sr., Ed. D.
Well son, I’ll tell you, Life for me is a date with Destiny,
My only assignment is to continue to give you the best of me.
Growing up in poverty and despair, I had the audacity to dare.
Dare to dream, through the days of joy and the years of pain,
Live and Learn but never live in shame or in vein.
Take heed to my F.E.A.R., as in, Face Everything And Rise,
As Lust, Hate, Greed, and Envy are right before your eyes.
Look to the hills but keep your eyes on the prize,
Watch out for the devil… always in disguise.
I have raised my glass and said, Cheers!
Over the years enjoyed my fair share of beers,
Embraced my tragedies and triumphs as they too brought me to tears.
Live your life nobly and never second guess me,
The fruits of your wealth are deeply rooted in my tree.
Life for me is a date with Destiny,
Through you, let the world know God has blessed me.