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
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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
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 [...]
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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. [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · assessment · conferences · education · educational leaderhsip · fun · HOPE Foundation · poverty and student achievement · professional development · school improvement · Shaping America's Future IV · teachers · training
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
Aligning research with what works
April 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Written by Alan Blankstein:
The newly released report Professional Learning in the Learning Profession from the National Staff Development Council (Darling-Hammond et al., 2009) confirms and validates teacher development principles familiar to professional learning communities and school networks already using the six principles detailed in the NSDC Book of the Year, Failure Is Not an Option®.
Let’s [...]
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New Study Cites “Readiness” as Key Ingredient to School and District-wide Improvement
April 16th, 2009 No Comments
Report highlighting Illinois school district’s five-year improvement correlates with Key Findings in report published by the National Staff Development Council
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The results of an in-depth evaluation of Mattoon (IL) Community USD #2’s five-year improvement journey with the HOPE Foundation were released at a think tank session last week that included district leaders from [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · district improvement · HOPE · HOPE Foundation · professional development · school improvement · School Readiness · staff development
Courageous Leadership
March 21st, 2009 No Comments
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What do your students want from you?
March 19th, 2009 2 Comments
In this article by Alan Blankstein, Alan outlines a few basic principals of what research says students want from their teachers!
Be prepared and organized. Even low-performing students don’t like to lose instructional time (Ferguson, 2002; Haycock, 2001). They like and need organization, as well as a high-demand/high-support environment.
Make teaching relevant. This is particularly true of students [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · education · educational leaderhsip · joy of learning · kids today · school improvement · student motivation · Students · teachers
