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This book addresses the journey of at-risk teen girls from juvenile hall to the Clark Academy.
List of contents
Author's Note
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: The Worse Part of the Game
Chapter Two: Three Months Later
Chapter Three: A New Teacher Principal Man
Chapter Four: Used Desks
Chapter Five: Maya Angelou To the Rescue
Chapter Six: Constitution Convention
Chapter Seven: Go Easy on Dj?
Chapter Eight: Man, On the Floor
Chapter Nine: She Forgot Her Pot?
Chapter Ten: She Took-Off the Band-Aides
Chapter Eleven: When Art Therapy Becomes Talk Therapy
Chapter Twelve: Mr. Buddha Man on the Floor?
Chapter Thirteen: Playin' the Dozins
Chapter Fourteen: This Couch Really Sucks
Chapter Fifteen: More Prunes
Chapter Sixteen: Little Brothers We Wish We Had
Chapter Seventeen: When You Don't Have A Future?
Chapter Eighteen: Never A Time for Coke
Chapter Nineteen: Colonel Sanders and Road Warrior
Chapter Twenty: It Never Leaves You
Chapter Twenty- One: Sister of The Streets
Chapter Twenty-Two: His Sacred Cow
Chapter Twenty-Three: No Pussy Votes
Chapter Twenty- Four: Man, on the Sidewalk
Chapter Twenty- Five: Andrea
Chapter Twenty- Six: To Be A Snitch or Not To Be A Snitch
Chapter Twenty- Seven: Track Meet
Chapter Twenty- Eight: Top Dog or Shop Bully
Chapter Twenty- Nine: Can't Always Run from Failure
Chapter Thirty: Go Easy on Dj Tests
Chapter Thirty- One I Know She Has Gone to Heaven
Chapter Thirty-Two: Pullin for Us to Succeed
Chapter Thirty-Three: Two Inches from The Gutter
Chapter Thirty- Four: The Real Game of Life Begins
Epilogue: The Circle of Life
About the author
David P. Sortino, PhD, has over 40 years of experience as a teacher, administrator, educational consultant and neuroscientist with at-risk youth. He is the former school principal with the Just Community Emancipation Program for ex-juvenile offenders at the Clark Academy. He obtained a PhD in clinical psychology and then worked at a north bay juvenile hall for four years as a moral development consultant, running groups and retraining staff about recent developmental theories, etc. He also taught several university courses in moral development and the life cycles.
