As school districts struggle to develop a culture of continuous progress, many of them have found strategies from the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) framework to be instrumental in changing school culture.
Here is a nice little article on PLC’s found in the HOPE Foundation archives on the web site.
If you haven’t surfed around the HOPE web [...]
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Professional Learning Communities
February 19th, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: HOPE · PLC's · PLC's Professional Learning Communities · professional development · staff development
Alan Blankstein in the news!
February 16th, 2010 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · HOPE Foundation
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
Twitter and Schools
January 6th, 2010 No Comments
I was recently contacted by a few reporters around the country who are doing news articles on school administrators who are beginning to see some applications for the newer social media tools. As some of our readers know this is one of the topics of interest to me that I have written about before. In [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · blogging · blogs · HOPE · social media · twitter
Failure is Not an Option: 6 Principles for Making Student Success the Only Option
December 14th, 2009 No Comments
This is an excerpt from the upcoming release of Failure Is Not an Option® 6 Principles for Making Student Success the Only Option, by Alan Blankstein. To pre-order a copy visit the HOPE store online.
Having spent four years as a successful elementary principal in the inner city, I was excited about being assigned principal of [...]
Tags: Carefree AZ · HOPE · professional development
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
PD for educators in the sunny south - when it’s cold everywhere else!
September 30th, 2009 No Comments
We are pleased to announce that the newly renovated Doubletree Resort will be the site for the Courageous Leadership for School Success Institute in the always beautiful Orlando, Florida on December 2-4, 2009.
HOPE’s renowned researchers and educators for this event include:
Jay McTighe, Author of the Understanding by Design series and former Director of the Maryland [...]
Tags: HOPE · PD · professional development
Alan Blankstein on the national scene
July 1st, 2009 2 Comments
SAN DIEGO— On July 2, Alan Blankstein, president of the HOPE Foundation and award winning author of Failure Is Not an Option, will be the featured speaker following Education Secretary Duncan at the National Education Association’s (NEA) 2009 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in San Diego, Calif.
HOPE—Harnessing Optimism and Potential through Education—has documented success [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · Arne Duncan · HOPE · NEA
HOPE Institutes: Cutting edge programs
May 5th, 2009 No Comments
If you haven’t had a chance to attend one of HOPE’s professional conferences, take a moment to check out some of the presenters.
Presenters at Failure Is Not an Option®: Courageous Leadership for School Success Institutes will include: Al Bertani, Willard Daggett, Michael Fullan, Tom Guskey, Cindy Harrison, Jay McTighe, Pedro Noguera, Ken O’Connor, Todd Whitaker, [...]
Tags: education conferences · HOPE Foundation · in service · professional development · training
