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Learn moreOur increasingly fast-paced world is interfering with sound educational practices and harming kids both physically and mentally. Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids gives teachers, administrators, and parents the information, tools, and strategies needed to begin making immediate changes at school, in the community, and at home to benefit all students. Based on the Challenge Success program—a research-based project founded at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education—this vital resource shows how to create a more balanced and academically fulfilling life for kids.
Step by step, Denise Pope, Maureen Brown, and Sarah Miles outline a concrete framework to reduce student stress while engaging kids in real learning. Overloaded and Underprepared details strategies and techniques that have been proven to work with tens of thousands of students, like hands-on learning and alternative assessments, as well as educating kids and parents about healthier ways to handle stress. The book helps to identify areas for improvement at school, brainstorm possible solutions, identify potential obstacles, and offer ways to achieve buy-in from multiple stakeholders.
Maureen Brown is executive director for Challenge Success, where she oversees daily operations as well as marketing and strategic planning.
Sarah Miles is director of research for Challenge Success. She researches how schools and classrooms can best support student learning and engagement.
Denise Pope is a senior lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education and the cofounder of Challenge Success.
Kitty Hendrix is an Audie Award-nominated and AudioFile Award-winning actor who has narrated books since 2013 in nearly every genre. With an extensive background in professional theater, indie film, and musical performance on both the East and West coasts, she often finds herself performing books that promote personal empowerment. In fiction, with an array of accents and an expansive emotional range, she enjoys narrating dynamic and complex characters. In nonfiction she loves imparting concepts and principles in a clear, compelling, and relatable way. Kitty loves audiobook narration because she gets to apply her acting skills every day. Kitty lives in NYC with her writer husband and her Shiba Inu, Reiki.