Whether you are a teacher, administrator, parent, or business professional, chances are, you struggle at times to find the right words. This inspirational handbook empowers you with six principles for effective communication. You’ll learn how to develop rapport, strengthen relationships, and connect with people in meaningful ways. In a world desperate for kindness and understanding, Talk to Me equips you to use your words to show others that you care.

In Fight Song, Bearden recounts her personal journey from hopelessness to healing and how those steps soon coincided with her cofounding the renowned Ron Clark Academy. Over 15,000 educators visit the academy and Bearden's classroom each year to learn ways to engage students and create a climate and culture for success.

In Kim Bearden’s first poetry collection, I Really Need You to Hear This, young voices emerge in verse, documenting–tentatively at times, and at other times boldly–the joys, challenges, fears, frustrations, hesitations, and comforts of growing up in today’s world. Many poems are situated in the classroom, with their young narrators reflecting on how the adults around them are struggling to see and support them. With huge heart and tremendous insight, Bearden captures the complex, layered e...

In Fight Song, Bearden recounts her personal journey from hopelessness to healing and how those steps soon coincided with her cofounding the renowned Ron Clark Academy. Over 15,000 educators visit the academy and Bearden's classroom each year to learn ways to engage students and create a climate and culture for success.