Adequate Yearly Progress
A Novel
by Roxanna Elden
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Pub Date Aug 01 2018 | Archive Date Jun 15 2018
Rivet Street Books | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
A workplace novel that captures teaching with humor, insight, and heart.
This perspective-hopping debut follows teachers at an urban high school
as their professional lives impact their personal lives and vice versa.
Each
year brings familiar educational challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a
struggling high school in one of Texas's bigger cities. But the school’s
teachers face plenty of challenges of their own. English teacher Lena
Wright, a spoken-word poet with a deep love for her roots, can never
seem to satisfy her students that she’s for real. Hernan D. Hernandez is
confident in front of his biology classes, yet tongue-tied around the
woman he most wants to impress: namely, Lena. Down the hall, math
teacher Maybelline Galang focuses on the numbers as she blocks out
problems whose solutions aren’t so clear, while Coach Ray hustles his
football team toward another winning season, at least on the field.
Recording it all is idealistic history teacher Kaytee Mahoney, whose
blog gains new readers by the day but drifts ever further from her
in-class reality.
And this year, a new celebrity superintendent
is determined to leave his own mark on the school—even if that means
shutting the whole place down. The fallout will shake up the teachers’
lives both inside and outside the classroom.
A Note From the Publisher
ebook: (ISBN 9781732098718)
Advance Praise
“Adequate Yearly Progress
is a brilliant portrayal of our public education institutions and the
systemic issues that affect students and teachers alike. Roxanna Elden's
spot-on observations, penetrating humor, and deeply-felt characters
make for an immersive story that is as fun to read as it is
enlightening."
-Natalia Sylvester, author of Everyone Knows You Go Home
“Roxanna Elden is one of the most practical, engaging and entertaining writers on education issues around.”
—Larry Ferlazzo, Education Week
“You
know how you’ve always thought that if you were a teacher, you’d go
insane? Well, this very funny book proves that you definitely would. But
in a good way.”
—Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humor writer
“…a frothy, satisfying Guinness for the teacher’s soul.”
—Dan Brown author of The Great Expectations School
“This
is the kind of no-nonsense straight talk that teachers are starved for,
but too rarely get. Roxanna Elden tells it like it is, with a heavy
dose of practicality, a dash of cynicism…and plenty of wry humor.”
—Rick Hess, Director Education Policy Studies at AEI and author of The Cage-Busting Teacher
“(Elden’s book has) empathy and….a great sense of humor to lighten the moment when things get tough.”
—Ellen Moir, Founder and CEO of The New Teacher Center
“Grounded in common sense and years of classroom experience…. All I can say is, Hallelujah, sister.”
—Ellie Herman, former television writer for Desperate Housewives, current high school teacher and blogger
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781732098701 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
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