Failure is Not an Option; Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools
Language: English
Published by Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2004
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- Title
- Failure is Not an Option; Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools
- Author
- Blankestein, Alan M.
- Publisher
- Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Dust Jacket
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1412909341
- ISBN 13
- 9781412909341
- Edition
- 1st Printing.
- Item weight
- 1 pound
"This is a practical, well formatted book that is intellectually solid, emotionally inspiring, and practically accessible." - Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
"Both inspirational and eminently practical, Failure Is Not an Option can serve as a handbook for both strategic planning and classroom-by-classroom reworking. Any administrator who truly wishes to change his or her school can use this book as a manual from which to design every aspect of the change process." - Robert W. Cole, Educational writer and consultant, Louisville, KY
"This book speaks to the spark of caring, generosity, and greatness in every child and provides caring adults with ideas and tools to unleash this potential. It leaves no part of the child behind, and leaves no adult on the sidelines." - Maurice J. Elias, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Building on a foundation that identifies courageous school leadership and the professional learning community as the center of effective school reform, this powerful new book by Alan M Blankstein offers six guiding principles for creating and sustaining high-performing schools:
} common mission, vision, values, and goals
} systems for prevention and intervention
} collaborative teaming for teaching and learning
} data driven decision making and continuous improvement
} active engagement from family and community
} building sustainable leadership capacity
Covering theory into practice, applications that include case studies and vignettes, and techniques for addressing difficult issues, the book also provides valuable dual perspectives on the critical issues: how implementation looks when it's done right as well as when things go wrong. Failure Is Not an Option is sure to be the state-of-the-art resource that school leaders reach for when, in Michael Fullan's words, they need "practical applications to perplexing problems".
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