Back to School

In 2010, Alan Blankstein interviewed 50 top educators from the US, Canada and the UK.  His research was focused around finding the wisdom and practices in the classroom and the schools and how to bring them forward as answers to the pressing educational challenges facing educators today.  What were the best practices being implemented?  What were the barriers to achievement?  How can one learn and grow the success already in their school using collaboration, walk-throughs and enlightened leadership?

The results of that research can be found in his upcoming book “The Answer Is in the Room” which will be co-published with Corwin and AASA this Spring.

What’s Working in Schools would like to get a conversation going.  Tell us how your school or district took a pocket of success and implemented it systemically. Was it taking a troubled student and helping him become a student leader?  Did you find a particular way to employ best practices from a fellow teacher and implement them in your school?  How can we find, use and share these pockets of excellence?

We want to hear from you.  Comment with your stories and thoughts here so we can grow and learn from each other.

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