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Across America, school change is beginning to happen, but can we wake up in time to save the future?

Read the ironic inside story that exposes how far we have to go to rescue ourselves, our kids, and the American Dream.

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a bold new perspective!

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Radical Reinvention, Please

Interviewers always ask Patti the question foremost in their minds:  How can her novel have an effect on an issue as big as school reform?  In the Interview with the Author that follows the story in the new 2009 edition of Angel Park, this is what she has to say:
            “My novel can help with the most important first step, opening readers’ eyes to a new way of thinking and providing a new perspective not only on school systems but also on how we live our lives.  This IS a big issue, and one of the most important we will face this century . . . . “
            After twenty-five years in the public school trenches, fighting for change in all aspects of education, Patti is convinced that we all need to see the bigger picture:  “We need radical reform in the way schools approach kids and the concept of learning,” she says.  “Raising test scores and throwing more money at the problem are futile attempts to disguise the underlying issues, which are huge and societal in their import.”   Once readers see the “Big Picture,” she says, they can understand the way many pieces of school reform fit together to create a new paradigm.
            “I wrote a fictional expose, an insider’s view of what really goes on in schools, to help readers feel the emotional drag that keeps kids, teachers, and parents fighting a battle every year.  I hope my story provides America’s wake-up call to the vast political-industrial complex we have created around a system that needs to be trimmed down, flattened out, simplified, and most critically, humanized to match our most beloved institution with our deepest ideals,” Patti says.

Receive a free download of Patti’s “Interview with the Author” and “Looking Deeper: A Reader’s Guide” on our Angel Park page.  Her original free report, “Exploding the Paradigm: Five Ways Schools Must Change to Rescue the American Dream,” can be downloaded from our Sign-Up/Contact page.

Join Patricia Kokinos in speaking out about the vast transformation we want to see in public education...

Find out more about Patti and her life’s work as a change agent on our Author Bio page. Discover new ideas on our Speaking Out page, which highlights Patti’s vision for deep and lasting change.  Check out our Global View page to see how forward-thinking nations and global movements are already acting on the knowledge that children ARE the future and, indeed, Changing the Schools Can Change the World...

Patricia Kokinos (say ko-keen’-us)
Author, Speaker, ChangeMaker

	*** Latest News *** Angel Park collected another award this autumn when USA Book News announced the results of its National Best Books 2009 Awards. The critically acclaimed novel was named a finalist for Best Book of 2009 in the Literary Fiction category! Thanks, Book News! Now online, the Fall 2009 edition of Affinity magazine features a profile of Patti and a perceptive article about Angel Park, appearing in both the print and online versions of the new alumni magazine for the California Community College system. Patti was an honor graduate of Bakersfield College back in the day, before moving on to UCLA . . . a great way to get a jumpstart on that college degree! Dec. 11 – 13: Patti will be a keynote speaker at the inaugural Green New Media & Life Expo, coming to the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona for a three-day run. She will be speaking on “The Greening of Education: Moving Our Schools from Factory to Family” on the main stage at 2 p.m. Saturday. Look for Angel Park in Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s Green Book Pavilion throughout the show!