Great Places to Learn Creating Asset-building Schools That Help Students Succeed

Neal Starkman is the president of Flashpoint Development and the author of Connecting in Your Classroom; Hey, Coach!; Ideas That Cook; and Walking Your Talk. He lives in Seattle. Peter C. Scales is a developmental psychologist at Search Institute. He is the author of Other People's Kids, A Portrait of Young Adolescents in the 1990s, and The Sexual Adolescent and the coauthor of Developmental Assets. He is a former national director of education for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, director of national initiatives for the Center of Early Adolescence at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, and chair of the Alaska Governor's Commission on Children and Youth. He is the recipient of the U.S. Administration for Children, Youth, and Families' Commissioner Award. He lives in St. Louis. Clay Roberts is a senior trainer with Vision Training Associates and the founder of Roberts & Associates, a national educational consulting firm that has advised the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Cancer Institute, the Disney Channel, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and the American Medical Association. He has been featured on NBC's Today Show as a prevention expert, and his programs have been highlighted on Frontline and in Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bellevue, Washington.Starkman, Neal is the author of 'Great Places to Learn Creating Asset-building Schools That Help Students Succeed', published 2006 under ISBN 9781574822458 and ISBN 1574822454.