The Wild Card
7 steps to an Educator’s Creative Breakthrough
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The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom with your students. Wade and Hope King show you how to draw on your authentic self—your past experiences, personality quirks, interests, hobbies, and strengths—to deliver your content creatively. Whether you are a high school teacher or a kindergarten teacher, the seven steps in The Wild Card will give you the knowledge and the confidence to bring creative teaching strategies into your classroom.
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You have to feel the strong sense of purpose and really let it consume you before you can create a learning experience your students will never forget.
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