Life Lessons from Cancer

There is never a good day to discover that you have cancer, but Dr. Keen Babbage's timing was unique. He found that he had a rare and advanced form of nasal cancer the same week that his beloved mother, the daughter of a Kentucky Governor, died. Babbage, an accomplished educator who had written 13 books, was an unlikely candidate for middle-age health concerns. A lifelong fitness fanatic, Keen had been a careful eater and an exercise junkie. He once walked over 400 miles to deliver a baseball to Cincinnati to start the major league season. Cancer seemed like a bad break, but Keen had an ace in the hole: His sister-in-law Laura Babbage. As a registered nurse, former health care executive and Chaplain for the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Laura knows every aspect of the medical world. She had the leadership skills, spiritual fortitude and sense of humor it takes to walk with her brother-in-law through the peaks and valleys of a devastating diagnosis and often brutal cancer treatments. Laura made regular updates to a blog that allowed us to witness Keen's treatment and recovery on an "as it happens" basis. The good, the bad and the ugly. Life Lessons from Cancer is an extraordinary book about two extraordinary people. It's not just a book about cancer. It's about the courage of a man in a life and death struggle and a world class caregiver who documented the battle as it was taking place. This book is a superb reference for both cancer patient and cancer caregiver. Life Lessons from Cancer inspires us, but most of all it teaches us. It is a terrific book. Don McNay Best-Selling Author and Huffington Post Contributor

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Babbage, Keen

Babbage, Laura

Diseases & Physical Ailments

RRP International LLC

The Best School: Practical Ideas on What Really Works in Education

No extra credit. No late work. A strict grading scale. Administrators in classrooms daily. Few interruptions. With 32 years in education, Dr. Keen Babbage has seen his share of the highs, the lows, and what really works in education from the most important perspective: the classroom. The Best School explores some of his deeply held beliefs gained from this perspective, a "tell all that matters" filled with practical, authentic, and realistic thoughts on how to improve a system too often weighed down by bureaucracy, bad ideas, and unrealistic goals. In these pages, you'll find no perfect formula. There is no magic solution. There is only considerate thought and inviting conversation. Truth emerges when ideas collide, and The Best School encourages you to engage with the ideas presented inside and come to your own conclusions. Is your school the best school? Through dedication to the high standards and focus on a unified vision at every level of education, it could be. But the best school is not powered by intentions. The best school is powered by sensible actions that get the desired results. Each school can get great results. Each school can reach bestness. Read on and let's think about how to make that happen.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Cherrymoon Media

There are at least two essential things that every student should take with them when graduating from high school: a diploma and a fully read and written-in copy of "Four Vital Questions for High School Seniors." In this book, the author guides the reader through an adventure in self-knowledge and awareness of what to do after completing high school. Throughout senior year, high school seniors often are asked, "What are you going to do after you graduate from high school?" This book helps them explore possibilities and make decisions about their next big step in life after graduation. The reader becomes the co-author of this book and is guided through a very personal, individualized, and meaningful step-by-step process of answering the four vital questions. The reader of this book will do much thinking, writing, and learning. This book is inspiring, vibrant, interactive, and rewarding for each reader. The book becomes a close friend for each high school senior. Students of all ages are welcome to read this book in anticipation of their senior year, yet it is especially designed for seniors as they decide what to do after high school. What awaits the reader? Insights and ideas, opportunities considered and options evaluated, decisions made and direction established. Before you graduate from high school, read "Four Vital Questions for High School Seniors." These questions will not appear on any test you take in high school, yet they must be answered. Why? Because these four vital questions are all about you knowing who you are and what you intend to become. This could be the only book you ever read that is all about you. You deserve a book like that.

Four Vital Questions for High School Seniors

Four Vital Questions for Teachers and Principals

Four Vital Questions About Your Life

Reference

One of the benefits of growing older and entering the senior citizen age group is that a person can appreciate anew the wisdom that was originally offered to him many years ago by his grandparents. In "Life Lessons from My Grandparents," Dr. Keen Babbage shares the timeless life lessons he learned from his grandparents, Keen and Eunice Johnson, many years ago, which he can only now truly and fully understand, value, and treasure.This book guides the reader along a meaningful, delightful, genuine, and practical consideration of insights about love, family, friends, faith, education, manners, money management, and politics. Integrity, honor, ethics, and virtue build the foundation for the life lessons which this book presents. Keen Johnson's years as the Governor of Kentucky (1939-1943) and Eunice Johnson's matching years as the First Lady of Kentucky, add some historical strength to the life lessons in this book.

Life Lessons from My Grandparents

Parenting & Relationships

Can Schools Survive?: Questions to Ask, Actions to Take

Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue of the purpose of a school and the related issue of whether schools are being asked to do tasks which compete with or complicate the fundamental purpose of a school.This book is interactive and encourages the reader to answer challenging questions, analyze trends in education, and envision the most desired future of schools. The text can help educators and other people concerned about education concentrate on what matters most and on what works best.

R&L Education

Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive.

Extreme Teaching

Extreme Teaching, Second Edition continues the important events in the career of Jason Prather, an outstanding teacher who became an exemplary school administrator. This book emphasizes Jason’s transition from teacher to school administrator, as he promises himself that he will do the work of a school administrator with the same heart and soul which inspired him as a teacher. Through this narrative, this book confronts many current issues in education. The reader meets some of Jason’s colleagues and hears their concerns, ideas, hopes, and frustrations. Extreme Teaching is a practical, realistic, energetic, and optimistic book, filled with ideas, case studies, penetrating questions, intriguing answers, and many topics for the reader to analyze. This book provides intellectual resources for readers to create new ideas which will work for their specific needs, challenges, and opportunities.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Life Lessons from Cancer

The Best School: Practical Ideas on What Really Works in Education

Four Vital Questions for High School Seniors

Four Vital Questions for Teachers and Principals

Four Vital Questions About Your Life

Life Lessons from My Grandparents

Can Schools Survive?: Questions to Ask, Actions to Take

Can Schools Survive?: Questions to Ask, Actions to Take

Extreme Teaching

Extreme Teaching