SESSION TYPE: Featured Speaker SESSION TITLE: Failure Is Not an Option® in Action: Engaging All Students STRAND: Whole School Issues DAY: Saturday TIME: 11:15 - 12:15 pm LOCATION: Mercury Ballroom, 3rd floor

Alan Blankstein, Founder and President of the HOPE Foundation, leads this interactive session illustrating student engagement and six principles essential for creating and sustaining learning communities where all students succeed. This inspirational session provides specific strategies and processes drawn from 15 years of research on how high-performing learning communities sustain success. Alan is a prolific presenter, former teacher, and author of the award-winning book, Failure is Not an Option.

***BOOK SIGNING AT ONSITE BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE TO FOLLOW SESSION (click here for schedule)

BIOGRAPHY


Alan M. Blankstein is Founder and President of the HOPE Foundation (Harnessing Optimism and Potential through Education), a not-for-profit organization whose Honorary Chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. HOPE supports educational leaders over time in creating school cultures where failure is not an option for any student. Alan authored the award-winning book, Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools. Now in its second edition, it has become the gold standard of creating and sustaining learning communities.