Award-Winning Counselor Reveals Motivational Strategies for Parents and School Personnel to Improve Controversial Guidance Programs

Guidance expert Dr. Richard O'Connell's MOTIVATING KIDS TO THE MAX is a practical and candid handbook to help parents improve student academic and social performance.

Bronxville, New York (PRWEB) April 29, 2007 -- Dr. Richard O'Connell's new book, MOTIVATING KIDS TO THE MAX, focuses on implementing changes within each member of the school community to boost and energize student performance. Relying on practical, everyday solutions and filled with techniques and entertaining anecdotes, this is an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, counselors, administrators and anyone who seeks to make students more effective.

A major complaint about some of today's schools is the lack of professional and caring guidance services. Award-winning guidance counselor Dr. Richard O'Connell has the solution. Using diplomacy, humor, and his decades of experience, Dr. O'Connell gives step-by-step instructions on how counselors, administrators, teachers and parents can all pull together to motivate students.

Dr. O'Connell also deals with the mechanics of guidance, from Ivy League college planning to helping the learning-disabled as well as motivating the "unmotivated." Opening up dialogues and listening to what is being said is key, suggests Dr. O'Connell. Packed with up to date, hands-on information and techniques, he stresses that for parents and school personnel to be effective, they must present a united front. Warmly written, O'Connell's handbook is nothing less than the quintessential guide to helping students improve their school performance and their chances of getting into the college of their choice.

For more information or to request a free review copy, please contact the author at docroc16(@)msn.com or visit the author's website at www.SchoolGuidanceServices.com. MOTIVATING KIDS TO THE MAX is available for sale online at Amazon.com, Borders.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
For over 40 years, Dr. Richard O'Connell has been a district guidance coordinator, director of guidance, and counselor in various New York and New Jersey private and public schools. The recipient of the New York State and Nassau County's Counselor of the Year Award for his innovative programs, he is currently teaching at Long Island University, as well as doing consulting work. He lives in Bronxville, New York.

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