HOPE Foundation Founder and President, Alan Blankstein was in the news twice this week.
Here is an articlediscussing some of HOPE’s successful case studies of schools who have made tremendous improvement.
It was interesting reading some of the first reader comments regarding whether or not the schools should accept responsibility for student success. From reading the first [...]
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Alan Blankstein in the news!
February 16th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Alan Blankstein · HOPE Foundation
50 Best Educational Blogs
February 2nd, 2010 No Comments
Our Blog “What’s Working in Schools” was just named to another list of best educational blogs!
To take a tour of some of education’s best blogs simply follow the links on the list and enjoy a whirlwind tour of the edusphere.
“50 Best Educational Blogs”
Tags: best blogs · educational blogs
The New Courageous Leaders Network
January 27th, 2010 No Comments
The HOPE Foundation (Harnessing Optimism and Potential through Education) and The School Improvement Network (SINET) today announced The Courageous Leaders Network committed to building a professional community of educators that examine and develop best practices to improve achievement for all school students. Using SINET’s industry leading PD 360 platform, The Courageous Leaders Network will facilitate [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · Failure is Not an Option · HOPE Foundation · professional development
Study links economic improvements to test scores
January 25th, 2010 No Comments
Here is an interesting one for you.
A new study showing a link between one international test score and improvements to a nation’s GDP.
For the United States, the research suggests, modest gains in student achievement as measured by one international assessment could cumulatively boost the country’s gross domestic product by tens of trillions of dollars over [...]
Tags: accountability · international tests
HOPE Blog makes the list of 100 essential blog posts for the first year teacher!
January 13th, 2010 No Comments
Our blog post titled “Are you trained or educated?” make the list of the top 100 essential blog posts for the first year teacher.
Check it out here.
Tags: blog posts · education · training
Excellent Print Resources
December 30th, 2009 No Comments
This link has some excellent print resources from the HOPE Foundation. You will find some excellent books here that provide support for all educators.
Disclosure: I wrote one of the chapters for Volume 6 in the Soul of Educational Leadership series at the invitation of Alan Blankstein.
Check out the Failure is Not an Option second edition - one [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · Failure is Not an Option · HOPE · HOPE Foundation
Sit-N-Git vs Team Work Time and Collaboration
December 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Have you ever gone to a conference and sat through 3 days of fantastic speakers and break-out sessions that gave you tremendous ideas, only to return to work the next week buried under a mound of emails and work projects?
A week later you wonder where all those great ideas went?
The HOPE Foundation has a cure [...]
Tags: Carefree AZ · conferences · educational leaderhsip · HOPE
Testimonial on HOPE conference
November 24th, 2009 1 Comment
One of our principals from the school district where I was superintendent, recently returned from the Atlanta HOPE conference.
I used to be a principal when she was a 4th grade teacher for us and she was always a great instructional leader. I trust her judgment. She sent me this little paragraph about what the Atlanta [...]
Tags: conferences · HOPE · professional development · training
HOPE Conferences Make a Difference!!
November 20th, 2009 1 Comment
As many of you know, the HOPE Foundation provides world class conferences for educators featuring national leaders in education. Recently, my former colleagues from my time as a Superintendent of Schools returned from an exciting time in Atlanta at the latest HOPE conference.
Here is what Wendy had to say:
I have been an educator for 16 years. [...]
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