Kindle Edition Amazon Blank Check Category:  Young Adult/Teen Publisher: Morgan James ISBN-10:  1642798851 Type: Fiction Pages: 276 Copyright: September 8, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781642798852 Price: $8.99 (eBook) A young adult teen with a burnt out high school principal teams together to rebuild public education as we know it. Inspiring young adults to reimagine public education, Blank Check is a novel about young people and a generation that is prepared to step in and re-engineer public education. The problem with gathering the forces of educators and businesses to advance the process of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) with Career and Technical Education (CTE) education is not that it is unworthy of their attention. It’s not that it’s unimportant to the future kids coming through public schools. It’s not that people do not get cheered when they champion new standards. It’s ALL of these. STEM and CTE education need a story. Today’s culture advances things through storytelling. It needs a context. That’s what happens when there is allowed incremental advances to nonchalantly lead the way. It fails to inspire. Blank Check is that story. It’s a fictional tale grounded in pure reality. It is an intriguing, inspirational Young Adult novel that takes place on a fictional U.S. island, but the story that evolves could help reshape public schools in America. So here, for the first and hopefully not the last time, there is a tale offered that can inspire people because when the destination can be seen in the distance, it quickens one’s pace.       Excerpt St. Andrews Island This story takes place on a fictional U.S. island, but the inspiration that evolves could help reshape public schools all over America. After serving his country as an Army Ranger, high school principal Josiah Rollins quits in disgust over the broken educational system he can no longer serve. Little does he know this impulsive act would lead him to an unbelievable opportunity to change everything and serve his country and students in the way he always dreamed he could. Inspired and funded by a now-billionaire war buddy, Josiah tests his educational theories in a place with low standards and poor student performance—the American Caribbean islands. The mission is simple: Give teachers the autonomy and the freedom to teach and provide the community with the power to make schools the center of their community. But many people of color on the island are not happy about the project, nor do they trust off-islanders selling them new ideas. Learn how Rollins wins over the people and the students by transforming the community and the economy into the American Dream.

Maurice Woods, Chief Strategy & Operations Officer, Broward County Public Schools (Sixth largest school district in the United States)
“Blank Check—a must-read for anyone interested in teaming together to reinvent public education. Dr. Smith’s book introduces a plan for addressing critical issues surrounding public education. The time is here. The time is now.”

John Calver, MBE, Senior Imagineer at Imagineering Futures
“Blank Check is a captivating, fast-paced, fictional presentation of a concept for remodeling an educational system where the author’s holistic ideas show how to ‘replace and promote’ an alternative educational system. Considerable thought and related research has been applied to the concept, which provides the reader with a positive first-steps approach. A great read!”

Steven Tong 佟执中, CEO, Shanghai Heng Zan Exhibition Services Co., LTD
“Education is a global topic. Dr. Smith uses a new way of expression to convey his understanding and suggestions for modern education to us. Although the story is fictional, I believe that on this planet, in the vast crowd, there must be many people like the protagonist in the book working for the change and development of education.

From ancient times till today, we have different definitions and needs for talents in different eras. In response to these needs, we are also adjusting educational methods and methods in a timely manner. Some of the key contents of this book provide solutions for current education issues. The ideas we draw on are worthy of our in-depth thinking and discussion.

Finally, thanks to Dr. Smith for bringing new inspiration through this book, and I hope that the readers will gain different values upon reading it.”