The answer is in the room : how effective schools scale up student success

Learn the secrets of successful schools Citing wisdom from top educational experts and building on what is already working, award-winning author Alan M. Blankstein offers tools for finding excellence in schools, scaling these practices across learning communities, and transforming low-performing schools into high-performing schools. His five-step process includes: - Identifying and assessing excellence - Creating an action plan - Assigning resources such as time, materials, etc. - Transferring excellence in the form of knowledge and skills throughout the school and district - Sustaining the excellence Also included are effective strategies for sustaining student gains, closing gaps within and between schools, building leader capacity, and increasing community commitment.