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GLENN ROBBINS is the proud Superintendent of the Brigantine Public School District in Brigantine, New Jersey. He has served as a public school superintendent in New Jersey since 2016. Prior to becoming a superintendent, he was a middle school principal, a high school assistant principal, a high school social studies teacher, and a high school varsity coach. He is also an author and speaker.

Glenn has been awarded numerous administrative national and state recognitions including the National Exemplar of Education Award, Northeast Innovative Superintendent Award, NJ Visionary Superintendent Award, Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools Member, NASSP Digital Principal of the Year, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Winner, and SETDA Student Voice Award Winner. He has been invited to the White House and the US Department of Education several times. He is also the proud recipient of a National Superintendent Certification, and serves as an AASA National Governing Board Member, AASA Aspiring Superintendent Mentor, and Chair of NJASA Technology Committee.

Glenn Robbins has been recognized across the globe for his innovative school and district improvement methods, and has been featured in numerous conferences, books, podcasts, and other publications. Glenn is passionate about helping school leaders create schools where every student and educator can have the opportunity to succeed to their utmost potential in a VUCA world.

Ariel Curry helps people make an impact on the world through the power of books. She fell in love with editing and publishing at her first internship in London. She spent the next decade acquiring nonfiction books and editing manuscripts. In 2021, she started Ariel Curry Editorial to work with more authors and expand my work coaching, editing, and ghostwriting books and proposals. Ariel's passion is to help professionals, thought leaders, and educators make an impact on the world through the power of books.

Show Highlights

Why you need a copy of "Calm in the Chaos"

• It is a valuable resource for school leaders that provides practical advice and case studies based on real experience.

• Explores using stoic wisdom for school leadership.

• Emphasizes the need for stoicism as a leadership tool, particularly in dealing with difficult situations and maintaining a calm mindset.

• Helps readers develop resilience and maintain integrity.

• Provides reflection questions to encourage readers to think about how they can apply these practices in their own lives.

• The book will change your life to help you not get crushed by the waves leaders face in their professional and personal lives.

• The 4 virtues that will help you be an active leader.

"'To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it'."

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"We control the controllables. We control what happens to us as much as we can. We control our attitude, we control our thought process. There's a lot of leaders out there who I talk to who are struggling and a lot of leaders out there who are ambitious and ready to take on the world. But no matter what, that