In her first book, Kim offers tough yet encouraging advice to help break down mental barriers holding you back from achieving what is truly possible in your life. Kim shares moments from her own dramatic story. She shows how she overcame parental abduction, was a missing child and was one of the first kids on a milk carton. But, she went on to achieve health, happiness, and success in her life. This book offers a realistic, step-by-step process to overcome adversity, obstacles, challenges, and moves on to show you how to create a vision for yourself, set goals, and achieve your potential, no matter where you started or where you find yourself now. It will evoke a positive “can do” mentality and inspire people to continuously grow and improve their lives for the better so that they can ultimately be of help to others facing challenges in life. Among the many benefits you’ll reap from reading this book you’ll learn: • The things in your life that you are actually in control of and their benefit to you. • How to stop believing lies about yourself • How to stop making excuses • How to stop allowing others to hold you back • How to move forward towards your vision

Diversity is at the heart of today's education debates. Often, school policies and programs designed to encourage and embrace diversity are met with public ire and a deep misunderstanding of how diversity serves learning. This work explains how diversity is an essential element in classroom settings. As children from around the world continue to pour into U.S. classrooms, an understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity in its broadest sense moves to the foreground. In a post 9/11 world, the benefits of understanding diversity take on urgent meaning. The introductory chapter, "Participating in Democracy Means Participating in Schools," sets the tone for the discussion to follow. As the geographic backgrounds of immigrants becomes increasingly diverse, religion must be added to previous discussions of race, ethnicity, and language. Thus, the need for the public to understand how shifts in population affect schools, makes this work a vital resource for anyone concerned with education today.