Blank Check, A Novel

Aaron Smith, PhD is an author, an active and leading STEM school director, and a professional speaker with expertise in workplace readiness. Aaron assists schools, corporate supporters, and community leaders to collaborate and sustain a pipeline of competent and job-ready employees through his five STEPS initiative. He graduated from Old Dominion University with a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and since has obtained two decades of experience in the classroom as a mathematics teacher and administrator. Aaron received the Crystal Star Award from the National Dropout Prevention Center and has been frequently referenced in catcat.com and Teachthought.com. He is the author of Awakening Your STEM School, and soon to be released Blank Check, a Young Adult novel designed to inspire a new generation (and the current generation) to become involved with fixing the public-school system in America. Aaron currently resides in Chesapeake, VA.

Blank Check—a must-read for anyone interested in teaming together to reinvent public education. Dr. Smith’s book introduces a plan for addressing critical issues surrounding public education. The time is here. The time is now. Maurice Woods, Chief Strategy & Operations Officer, Broward County Public Schools Blank Check is a captivating, fast-paced, fictional presentation of a concept for remodeling an educational system where the author’s holistic ideas show how to ‘replace and promote’ an alternative educational system. Considerable thought and related research has been applied to the concept, which provides the reader with a positive first-steps approach. A great read!“John Calver, MBE, Senior Imagineer at Imagineering FuturesWhat teacher, administrator, even parent, doesn’t sometimes imagine how they would reshape the system if money were no object and bureaucracy wasn’t an issue? Blank Check, while fictitious, makes you wonder, ‘what if?’ and begins the conversation that is long overdue.Leslie Polvado, Texas Representative, T.A.I. (Talent Assessment, Inc.)