"Balance: Snowflakes on Fire" by Mark P. Gray, Elementary Principal in the Baldwin UFSD 

This book is designed to help inspire teachers in a time of epic changes to their culture.  It is developed to create and sustain individuals and teams as they find themselves within their job.  It runs backwards in the face of data, accountability, and curriculum, which they can get plenty of elsewhere.  It is somewhat of a teacher 'self help' and 'the power of now' angle that champions teachers, what they do, what they must overcome, and emphasizes the process over the outcome.  Taking from Yeats quote that education is less the filling of a bucket with water than the lighting of a fire, the second section helps teachers identify with personality traits and how they might come out from their isolated classrooms to help one another achieve greater outcomes.

This book is available only through ebook sales at the following links:

For the Nook:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/balance-mark-gray/1105870535?ean=29...

On the Apple Iphone or Ipad through the Apple ibook app readers can just type in the title of the book.

On Smashwords readers can download a pdf file and print if they do not have an e reader at:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/83893

It will be available on Sony readers within the next 10 days and Kindle shortly.