{"product_id":"i-love-this-place-tim-elmore-9781736900161","title":"I Love This Place: Amplify Your School Culture to Reignite Staff, Reconnect Students, and Rally Community","description":"Your school doesn't need another strategy.\u003cbr\u003eIt needs a tough and tender leader. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Patrick Erwin's band recruitment plummeted from 120 to 82 students, his wife delivered a painful truth: \"You preach leadership to your students but don't practice it for yourself.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat moment changed everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn I Love This Place, Erwin shares seventeen years of hard-won lessons from leading a premier high school music program, revealing how authentic leadership creates school cultures where everyone genuinely wants to belong. Through honest stories of failure and breakthrough, he introduces the HUSTLE framework-a practical approach built on Humility, Understanding, Scholarship, Trust, Leadership, and Excellence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSchool culture doesn't change through programs or mandates. It changes when leaders change-when we stop relying solely on techniques and start embodying the values we want to see. And that culture is amplified when we grow more leaders in our schools. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Patrick provides steps that are both transferable and transformational-anyone can practice them, and they will change your school atmosphere.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Tim Elmore, Founder of Growing Leaders\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe struggle is real. But so is the solution. It starts with you, leader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Elmore,Patrick M. Erwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1736900161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781736900161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poet Gardener Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d","brand":"Tim Elmore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437785788671,"sku":"9781736900161","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed75f11e-44da-4509-b7f7-951be834930f.jpg?v=1777164044","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-love-this-place-tim-elmore-9781736900161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}