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 ...
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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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