Fred Potter: 7 books

Poems from a darker side. A journey through pain to a place of redemption and peace. And, a few conversations with an irritable, belittling guy who is sometimes referred to as a supreme being and who ought to have a better answering service. From the author of “A Classified Christmas,” “Hunky Dory Bible Stories,” and “The Adventures of Jabber and Mumble.”

God and the devil make wager over a man’s life. A young boy battles a soldier nine feet tall, killing the soldier with only a slingshot. A prophet is eaten by a fish and three days later warns a city of imminent destruction. And a man on an island has incredible visions of the apocalypse. It isn’t...

Santa Claus is getting ready for another Christmas, another night he bends space and time, another night he travels at the speed of light to deliver hundreds of thousands of presents worldwide. But there's a big problem: a massive solar flare will erupt that same night. In a panic, Santa reaches out...

Jessica Blair Johnson and Allegra Francine Smith, better known as Jabber and Mumble, are best friends at a middle school in an affluent suburban city in Kansas. Jabber’s breakneck, breathless stream-of-consciousness speech usually dominates any conversation with Mumble, who typically utters monosyllabic...

The purpose of School Climate and Culture vis-à-vis Student Learning is to describe a reform that improves test scores, reduces dropouts and decreases bullying behavior. There are six areas that must be improved in order to accomplish this purpose. These six areas are the following: discipline, basic...

A high-performing school is described as one where student achievement is high and student and teacher absenteeism is low. Student behavior is such that teachers seldom have to control them or tell them what to do. This results in greater time on task, higher teacher morale, low teacher absenteeism,...

The purpose of our book is to share with our readers some insights we have acquired over the years in our administrative experience implementing change and reforms. Two areas that are critical for any reform to succeed are the way communications and conflicts are handled. We have included a chapter...