Flight of the Quetzal Mama: How to Raise Latino Superstars and Get Them into the Best Colleges
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| Title | : | Flight of the Quetzal Mama: How to Raise Latino Superstars and Get Them into the Best Colleges |
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1532960166 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-02 |
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Quetzal Mama demystifies the college admission process. As a national college admissions expert, she shares her insight to help Latino parents navigate the complex public and private university process. Parents will learn how to navigate their child’s pathway to college beginning in K-5, to middle school, and throughout high school. Additionally, parents will transform their child’s perspective by applying the 10 Quetzal Mama Principles – the foundation to raising Latino Superstars!
Editorial : About the Author Roxanne Ocampo, aka “Quetzal Mama” is a national college admissions expert who has coached thousands of students throughout the US. She runs a full time consulting practice and facilitates more than 75 workshop topics spanning the entire spectrum of the college admissions process. Her students have earned admission to the most prestigious universities and have won national scholarship awards. She is a third year Doctoral Candidate at UC San Diego where she received a full Fellowship. Her doctoral research focuses on high school students’ ability to navigate the college admission process for selective universities. She holds a Master’s Degree and Bachelor’s Degree in English – where she learned her unique craft of writing. She has authored four books on college admissions and is endorsed by many influential business and educational leaders. Her clients include prestigious universities, national organizations, and statewide community b
And there's a message woven in there, not too subtlely, about how the only way to succeed is hard work, and that a teacher should work hard to help his students and not just leave the bad ones behind.
Negi doesn't get much exposition in this one; it's focused on his students. The book is definitely coherent and is quite a relaxing read. I love Suzy's Zoo characters - to have them together with beautiful simple prayers for children is wonderful.
I have my own copy and gave one to my 2 year old grandson.
"Thank You, Lord, for making me special and for loving me just the way I am."
That's a prayer we all need.. So you can understand that I approached this last book with a big question in my mind: angst or light and funny? The Show Business setting let me think that it would be the second one but then the not easy relationship between Adder and Kalil, with their incapacity to come clear with their feelings was a sure hint that the angst part was there, ready to st
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