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Failure Is Not an Option: 6 Principles That Advance Student Achievement in Highly Effective Schools

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School improvement that find out how with this masterful guide!

Common Core requirements, merit-based pay, new teacher evaluations, project-based learning—21st-century learning is a demanding and rapidly changing landscape. Advance from overwhelmed to empowered with Alan Blankstein’s Failure Is Not an Option, used by more than 350,000 educators to create schools that sustain success for every student.

New case studies and field-tested techniques uncover indispensable insights into successful school change. Develop high-performing leadership teams through

Powerful engagement strategies and capacity-building questions to help staff and students leverage what’s working and target measurable goals New real-world examples to help stakeholders maintain collaborative cultures in the face of new teacher evaluations and merit pay, sustain successful RTI and Common Core initiatives, thrive in diverse settings, and promote community engagement New tools, forms, and video segments on a companion website Use this handbook to discover what makes results-oriented, enduring school improvement models work! Praise for the Second "An overwhelming body of research shows that educational change and improvement must come from the inside. Here is a practical road map for improving the climate and culture of schools in ways that are meaningful and enduring. We must be open to new ideas, new strategies, and new opportunities. School transformation is something you do with educators, not to them. This book will show you how." —Dennis Van Roekel, President National Education Association

352 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 20, 2012

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March 23, 2014
Pretty quick read and incredibly interesting. As a teacher I have noticed we always seem to follow the next big trends in education. This book supports grass roots teaching styles and how to make leaders out of all teachers on a campus. I found it pretty great that our district is already implementing a lot of the concepts from the book?
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