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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Failure is Not an Option'
The New Courageous Leaders Network
January 27th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Alan Blankstein · Failure is Not an Option · HOPE Foundation · professional development
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
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 [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · Failure is Not an Option · FNO · research
