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Facilitator's Guide to Failure Is Not an Option®

6 Principles for Making Student Success the ONLY Option

Second Edition
By: Alan M. Blankstein

Demonstrate how six powerful principles can help ensure that failure is never an option!

An ideal companion to the second edition of the bestseller, this facilitator's guide contains all the tools to help school leaders create successful, sustainable high-performing schools. Reflecting a greater emphasis on diversity, assessment, intervention for students at risk, and schooling as a community endeavor, this award-winning resource focuses on six principles for success:

Common mission, vision, values, and goals
Achievement for all students through prevention/intervention systems
Collaborative teaming focused on teaching for learning
Data-based decisions for continuous improvement
Family and community engagement
Building sustainable leadership capacity

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The resources in this facilitator's guide can also be found at the HOPE Foundation Web site at www.hopefoundation.org.

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412981743
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2009
Page Count: 88
Publication date: December 13, 2012

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Demonstrate how six powerful principles can help ensure that failure is never an option!

An ideal companion to the second edition of the bestseller, Failure Is Not an Option®, this step-by-step guide provides staff developers and workshop facilitators with all the tools to help school leaders create successful, sustainable high-performing schools. Aligned with the chapters of Alan M. Blankstein's award-winning book, these activities, discussion questions, and field-tested resources demonstrate how to avoid 10 common routes to failure and are designed around six guiding principles:

Common mission, vision, values, and goals
Achievement for all students through prevention and intervention systems
Collaborative teaming focused on teaching for learning
Data-based decisions for continuous improvement
Active family and community engagement
Building sustainable leadership capacity

Reflecting the updated edition's greater emphasis on diversity, assessment for learning, intervention and support for students at risk, and schooling as a community endeavor, the facilitator's guide features

Field-tested resources referenced in Failure Is Not An Option®, Second Edition, including tools for applying the six principles
Workshop activities
Discussion questions
Chapter content summaries
Suggestions for further reading and reflection
A workshop evaluation form

The Facilitator's Guide to Failure Is Not an Option®, Second Edition is ideal for staff developers or anyone leading groups of any size—pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.

The resources in this facilitator's guide can also be found at the HOPE Foundation Web site at www.hopefoundation.org.

Author(s)

Alan M. Blankstein

Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served for 25 years as President of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former “high-risk” youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. He worked for Phi Delta Kappa, March of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling book Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which received the Book of the Year award from Learning Forward. Alan is Senior Editor, lead contributor, and/or author of 18 books, including Excellence Through Equity with Pedro Noguera,. He also authored some 20 articles in leading education print including Education Week, Educational Leadership, The Principal, and Executive Educator. Alan has provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major U.S. Ed Org, and throughout the UK, Africa, and the Middle East. Alan has served on the Harvard International Principals Centers advisory board, and the Jewish Child Care Agency, where he once was a youth in residence.

Table of Contents

About the Author

How to Use This Chapter-by-Chapter Guide

Tips to Facilitate Discussion

Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guide: Failure Is Not an Option: 6 Principles for Making Student Success the ONLY Option, Second Edition by Alan M. Blankstein

Chapter 1. Why Failure Is Not an Option

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Resources

Chapter 2. Courageous Leadership for School Success

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Chapter 3. 10 Common Routes to Failure, and How to Avoid Each

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Resources

Chapter 4. Relational Trust as Foundation for the Learning Community

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Chapter 5. Principle 1: Common Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Resources

Chapter 6. Principle 2: Ensuring Achievement for All Students?Systems for Prevention and Intervention

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Resources

Chapter 7. Principle 3: Collaborative Teaming Focused on Teaching for Learning

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Resources

Chapter 8. Principle 4: Data-Based Decision Making for Continuous Improvement

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Resources

Chapter 9. Principle 5: Gaining Active Engagement From Family and Community by Alan M. Blankstein and Pedro A. Noguera

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Chapter 10. Principle 6: Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity by Alan M. Blankstein with Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink

Chapter Content Review

Activities

Discussion

Further Reading

Wrap Up Your Reading With Reflection

Resources

Resource 1. FNO Snapshot Rubric for Educational Leaders

Resource 2. FNO Student-Success Model and Critical-Success Factors

Resource 3. Williamston Zoomerang Survey: Tying Professional Development to Results

Resource 4. FNO Tuning Protocol

Resource 5. Williamston Graphic Organizer and Rubric for Writing

Resource 6. Williamston Professional Development Agenda

Resource 7. Strategies for Making Time

Resource 8. Self-Assessment

Resource 9. Strategies for Dealing With Resistance

Resource 10. Running River Elementary School Mission Statement

Resource 11. Development Process for Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals

Resource 12. Worksheet for Developing a School Improvement Plan

Resource 13. Pyramid of Support at Coyote Ridge Elementary School

Resource 14. Developing a System of Prevention and Intervention

Resource 15. Instructional Learning Walks

Resource 16. Checklist for Using Diagnostic (Preteaching) Assessments

Resource 17. Checklist for Using Formative Assessments

Resource 18. Checklist for Using Summative Assessments

Workshop Evaluation Form

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