Digging Deep, Aiming High: An Educator's Lifelong Quest to Put Kids First

Digging Deep, Aiming High is a memoir of my career as a teacher and administrator in the New York City public schools. My experiences teaching in the middle school and my tenure working as an assistant principal and principal at the Manhattan Center High School for Science and Mathematics paint a contrasting picture. Both schools were dramatically different in terms of providing job satisfaction and student achievement.

It is remarkable how two different schools could produce incredibly diff...