Failure Is Not An Option: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement In High-performing Schools - Hardcover

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Alan M. Blankstein is founder and president of the HOPE Foundation, a not-for-profit organization whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize--winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The HOPE Foundation (Harnessing Optimism and Potential through Education) is dedicated to supporting educational leaders over time in creating school cultures where failure is not an option for any student. HOPE has a decade-long track record of sustaining student success in districts throughout North America. The HOPE Foundation launched the professional learning communities movement in educational circles, first by bringing W. Edwards Deming and his work to light in a series of Shaping America's Future forums and PBS video conferences from 1988 to1992. Now, the HOPE Foundation provides some 20 conferences annually as well as long-term support for thousands of educational leaders throughout North America and other parts of the world through leadership academies and intensive on-site school change efforts. A former "high risk" youth, Blankstein began his career in education as a music teacher and has worked in youth-serving organizations since 1983, including the March of Dimes, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National Educational Service (now Solution Tree), which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years. Blankstein is author of the best-selling book Failure Is Not an Option(t): Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which has been awarded "Book of the Year" by the National Staff Development Council. Currently, Blankstein is senior editor along with Paul Houston of the eight-volume The Soul of Educational Leadership series. Blankstein also co-authored the Reaching Today's Youth curriculum with Rick Dufour and has published articles in Educational Leadership, The School Administrator, Executive Educator, High School Magazine, Reaching Today's Youth, and Inside the Workshop. Blankstein has also provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major educational organization. Blankstein is on the Harvard International Principals Centers advisory board, served as board member for Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, is co-chair of Indiana University's Neal Marshall Black Culture Center's Community Network, and advisor to the Faculty and Staff for Student Excellence (FASE) mentoring program. He is also an advisory board member for the Forum on Race, Equity, and Human Understanding with the Monroe County Schools in Indiana, and served on the Board of Trustees for the Jewish Child Care Agency (JCCA), in which he was once a youth in residence.