Christina Hart – författare

This text in ABL’s new Educational Leadership series from Peabody College covers historical and current trends in leadership in a very practical way, using cases and a problem-solving approach as vehicles for examination.

The text was developed by a leading scholar in educational leadership as part of a series from one of the leading schools of education in the world. It has a strong basis in current research, and easy-to-use, intuitive features. It strikes an effective balance between the informational and the pedagogical. It covers trends (both historical and current) in educational leadership. The “Modern” approach of this book explores professional challenges, performance expectations, and operating conditions encountered by contemporary American school leaders. The case studies and interactive pedagogy make this a very practical text.

Ruin Me is Part 1 of The Summer of Secrets Series. It is a 30k-word novella, and can be read as a complete standalone, or as the first part of the interconnected series.

When Trevor, a lonely 24 year old wholost his mother at a young age and sworeoff love, meets a young, free spirited girlnamed Amira, he has to look inside andunderstand why he is the way he is andhow he can learn to change to becomethe man he is meant to be.Trevor has been lonely and broken sincehis mother died when he was a child.He has learned to cope by shuttingoff to the world and not opening up toanyone, not even himself. He drinks tonumb his pain until he meets the onegirl who changes everything, includingherself. She isnt perfect either; stubbornand strong-minded. Together, theygrow and learn to accept each otherin this quirky, off-beat romance thatfocuses on why individuals are the waythat they are.

A novella about two sisters, Lora and Isabel, who live on opposite endsof the spectrum while living under the same roof. While they wereonce close friends, they are now living completely separate from oneanother and are hardly speaking at all.Lora, deemed the bad, troubled sister by her mother, is the over-analyticalnarrator of the story. She is plagued by thoughts of uncertainty and constantfear of the unknown. Once a misinterpreted girl in and out of psych wardsand therapy, Lora is now a fairly mild-tempered loner who has lost trust inpeople because of her past. She was bullied and tormented by her peers whileher sister, Isabel, beautiful and popular, was seemingly living a perfect life.Lora grew to resent her sister, feeling Isabel abandoned her during the mostmiserable time of her life. The narrative tale takes place during one singleday; a day in which Lora decides she is somehow going to change her ways,quiet her restless mind and overpower her fears.