Stinger’s Guide to
Crushing Out
Bad Grades
A Teen’s Guide
to Success
Anne Sutherland Thomas, Ed.S., LCSW
ISBN 978-0-9818643-7-2
Perfect Bound, 6″ x 9″
64 Pages
$12.95
Anne Sutherland Thomas is in her 11th year of teaching high school in Marietta, GA. As a special education teacher she has co-taught Science, Social Studies and English in the general education setting. She has also taught small group study skills, reading and science. In addition, she home-schooled her son during his elementary school years and guided, nagged and cajoled her two children through public and private schools. Anne knows firsthand the struggle of learning both as a student and parent and understands the frustration her students and parents feel.
An Educational Specialist with a Masters in both Clinical Social Work and Business Administration, Anne Sutherland Thomas took her accumulated knowledge as a special education teacher, a teacher of Science, Social Studies and English in a general education setting, and her own experience home-schooling her son during his elementary school years to develop The Stinger’s Guide to Crushing Out Bad Grades. Now a high school teacher, for years Thomas and her school-age children would spend the last days of summer photocopying and assembling multiple copies of The Stinger’s Guide to hand out at the beginning of each academic year. So named because of the Yellow Jacket mascot at Sprayberry High School in Marietta, Georgia, what makes this concise handbook of learning skills so compelling is that it has been fine-tuned from actual use within the Cobb County Georgia schools. Thomas’ easy-to-read guide is a tried and true resource.
What professionals and parents have said about this work…
The ‘Stinger’s Guide to Crushing Out Bad Grades’ is an excellent resource for our students with disabilities. This guide could be used across grade levels, but being a high school person, I would love to see our incoming 9th graders use this to help create a smooth academic transition from middle school to high school. The guide is user friendly, for students, teachers and parents. I love that everything we talk about as a teacher in relation to being a successful student can be found in one place! 🙂
Where was this book when I taught study skills?!
Erin Smith
This is an extremely useful guide. It includes clear, practical instructions for basic study skills, test taking, note taking, and essay writing, as well as valuable guidelines for using internet resources, teachers, and tutors.
Most importantly, it consciously and concretely outlines the steps in successful studying—steps that many parents and teachers are not even aware are part of the process.
Bridget Heneghan, PhD
Anne Thomas’ ‘Stinger’s Study Guide’ is an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, tutors, and advisors. So often educators assume that high school students know how to study, but experience and research show that is simply not true! The Stinger Study Guide offers practical, student-friendly tips on exactly how to study daily – for quizzes, for tests, and for every day in class. I highly recommend this book as a resource for any high school student.
Jeanne Walker
Assistant Principal
Sprayberry High School