Facilitator's Guide to Failure Is Not an Option®

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.