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  • The Wild Card

  • 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough
  • By: Wade King, Hope King
  • Narrated by: Hope King, Wade King
  • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (402 ratings)

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Publisher's summary

The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom with your students.

"This book is a teacher wonderland of ideas, inspiration, and mind-blowing magic." - Ron Clark, The New York Times best-selling author and cofounder, Ron Clark Academy.

In this audiobook, 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. If 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.

You'll learn:

  • Why the deck is not stacked against you, no matter what kind of hand you've been dealt
  • Why you should never listen to the Joker
  • How to identify the "Ace up your sleeve" and use it to create classroom magic
  • How to apply the "Rules of Rigor" in order to fuse creativity with learning
  • How to become the "Wild Card" that changes the game for your students
©2018 Hope and Wade King (P)2018 Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.

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Just What You Would Expect From The Kings

Lots of great ideas and tips - it is everything that you would expect to hear from these incredible educators. This is a book that you want to listen to more than once or you want to have a hard copy to go back to. Highly recommend!

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Enjoyed reading about rigor in a positive light.

Great read! The King's are dispelling the myth of rigor in the classroom. Good job!

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Amazing!

I could not let myself pause this book. What an inspirational read for teachers! I have never felt more excited, passionate, or ready to step into my classroom each day than I did while listening to this book. I love what I do, but this book increased my love for education even more!

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Retooling and Refueling with this great book.

This was a great book. It is feeled with motivating and realistic suggestions and steps to engaging students in the class.

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Amazing things to think about!!!

I loved this book. This is my first year going into education, and I had no idea of what to think. Through reading this book and working on my Alternative Teacher Certification, I have so many ideas of things I want to implement and I know it will take time but I am looking forward to being in education more than I ever have before!!!

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Inspirational & Easy to follow

A very enjoyable outline to being a wonderful teacher with tried-and-true examples that spark your creative imagination. Wade & Hope are truly inspirational!

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Amazing! The Kings know how to motivate!

I loved this book! It is just as inspiring as their public appearances. I plan on listening to it again many times.

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Great Read

I was able to truly reflect on my teaching as I read this book. I don't do change easily however, their results motivated me to take the book seriously. I will be implementing more creativity into my classroom this coming up school year.

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Listening the the Authors…AMAZING

I love when the authors narrate their own books! It makes it so much more personal and helpful!!

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Very inspirational! Loved it.

This was a great book to read before the beginning of a new school year. Hope and Wade are great mentors for teachers.

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