Author Description

Rise Above reveals the story behind Jeff Dase's rise above obstacles in every chapter of his life to become a successful man in the city of Chicago. This book explains how Jeff Dase remained grounded to his culture and beliefs while navigating the street life and professional life to become an awarding winning contributor to the city of Chicago communities. Offering motivational advice in a spiritual and down-to-earth style, this unique book will give the reader heartfelt insight into the life of survival and success as a black male growing up in the city of Chicago. This book provides wisdom, guidance, and insight to help the reader chart their own path to success. This book addresses tough issues facing Chicago men. A successful man in education, Jeff Dase has risen through the ranks of the third largest public schools system in America, Chicago Public Schools, as a tutor, teacher, assistant principal, principal, Chief of Schools and Operations Manager to being selected as the Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning for Decatur Public Schools in Decatur, Illinois. Despite that success, he has endured challenges along the way. This book addresses the challenges men in education face. This book is intended to provide young men with stories and words of encouragement, guidance and inspiration. Dase's deep-rooted passion to ensuring the success of all children that cross his path, men in education and black males in life drove him to write this book. This book is sure to motivate and inspire the lives of all readers. Rise Above will serve as a conversation starter to address issues many men face and avoid talking about. The first step to improvement is to get it out and talk about it. After reading this book, many readers will want to reveal those hidden issues. Most importantly, this book will help readers RISE ABOVE those issues.