Jane Blomstrand has over 30 years of experience in education as a teacher of the year, literacy specialist, school principal, and director of a teacher credentialing program. Her first book ""Meet the Principal: My Journey Beyond the Curriculum"""" started out as a response to her grandkids question ""What DOES a Principal Do All Day?"" It quickly developed into a book of vignettes about the intriguing challenges a school leader faces and the many relationships a principal forms with students, staff and parents on the way to achieving a winning team and student success. Principals, teachers and parents would enjoy and relate to the variety of stories included about what goes on inside the walls of a school. She recently wrote a second book, ""Teaching with Heart"" which details the importance of building relationships with students including tips for teachers and school administrators to use in getting to know students. As John Maxwell said, ""Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.""
""Blomstrand does an excellent job at explaining ... the dance between teacher, student, parent, and curriculum. I found myself underlining, making notes, and saying out loud, 'Yep.'"" Michael Haase, Teacher