Failure Is Not an Option: 6 Principles for Making Student Success the Only Option - Softcover

Blankstein, Alan M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412979234 ISBN 13: 9781412979238

Verlag: Corwin Press Inc, 2009

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Five years, 200,000 readers, and one national award after the first edition, Blankstein documents how educators have closed gaps, turned schools around, and sustained overall success.


Resources referenced in Failure Is Not an Option®, Second Edition are available in The Facilitator's Guide to Failure Is Not an Option®, Second Edition and can also be found at the HOPE Foundation Web site at www.hopefoundation.org.

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Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served for 25 years as President of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former “high-risk” youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. He worked for Phi Delta Kappa, March of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling book Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which received the Book of the Year award from Learning Forward. Alan is Senior Editor, lead contributor, and/or author of 18 books, including Excellence Through Equity with Pedro Noguera,.  He also authored some 20 articles in leading education print including Education Week, Educational Leadership, The Principal, and Executive Educator. Alan has provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major U.S. Ed Org, and throughout the UK, Africa, and the Middle East.  Alan has served on the Harvard International Principals Centers advisory board, and the Jewish Child Care Agency, where he once was a youth in residence.

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• Verlag: Corwin Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412979234
• ISBN 13: 9781412979238
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 263
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