Kelley King 
Writing the Playbook [PDF ebook] 
A Practitioner’s Guide to Creating a Boy-Friendly School

Your game plan for getting boys on the path to higher achievement You’ve seen it in your school: boys struggling to master basic literacy skills, sitting outside the principal’s office, collecting labels like "hyperactive, " getting failing grades. Checked out, kicked out, or dropped out, they’re benched when they should be scoring goals on the academic playing field.As a school leader, Kelley King has walked the talk: she successfully led her own staff to close the gender gap in reading and writing in just one year. In her step-by-step, research-based leadership plan for jump-starting boys’ achievement, she shares: Critical insight into the brain-based differences between boys and girls First-hand leadership and classroom experiences Ready-to-use activities and resources for leading a successful gap-closing initiative With tips, anecdotes, and more, Writing the Playbook provides educators in all roles with a blueprint for creating schools where boys (and girls!) thrive."Finally, some practical advice from an experienced educator on how to make boys into successful students. King’s credentials-mother of both a son and daughter as well as a principal who successfully addressed gender gaps at her school-are unbeatable."-Richard Whitmire, Author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind"Kelley King is both impassioned and level-headed, and she starts a conversation that we desperately need to have in our country."-Michael Kimmel, Author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology"This is a highly practical and highly relevant book. Two thumbs up!"-Eric Jensen, Author of Teaching with the Brain in Mind