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		<title>Margery Ginsberg Talks about Her Latest Book “Transformative Professional Learning: A System to Enhance Teacher and Student Motivation” (Corwin Press, 2011).</title>
		<link>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/05/09/margery-ginsberg-talks-about-her-latest-book-%e2%80%9ctransformative-professional-learning-a-system-to-enhance-teacher-and-student-motivation%e2%80%9d-corwin-press-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ruth Nelson This month I had the opportunity to chat with Margery Ginsberg, Ph.D., an associate professor at the University of Washington-Seattle. She has recently published a book with Corwin titled Transformative Professional Learning; A System to Enhance Teacher and Student Motivation. Margery, thank you for speaking with me today and sharing some background [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Citizen Leadership in Education</title>
		<link>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/05/09/the-importance-of-citizen-leadership-in-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Brenda Welburn Over a twenty-seven year period I held several positions, including Executive Director, at the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). Those who know me well will attest that I could never have remained with an organization for that long unless I firmly believed in the purpose of the organization and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT EXACTLY ARE ESSENTIAL GUIDING QUESTIONS AND HOW DO THEY FRAME EFFECTIVE UNITS OF INSTRUCTION?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kathy Glass In last month’s article about essential understandings, I mentioned that guiding questions should be clearly visible for students when teaching every unit. The essential understandings are written in more adult language, so some teachers might not post them, but students should have the essential questions at the center of their learning and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York State Educator of the Year Named McKenna to speak in Ithaca, NY,  Credits Failure Is Not an Option® with Success</title>
		<link>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/05/08/education-leaders-call-for-teacher-and-student-centered-approach-to-implementing-common-core-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LATHAM, NY—The School Administrators Association Of New York State named John McKenna, Principal of Fletcher Elementary School,  as their Educator of the Year last Friday at a ceremony held at  the Century House, Latham, NY. The award is given annually to a SAANYS member who has made outstanding contributions in New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Leaders Call for Teacher and Student-Centered Approach to Implementing Common Core</title>
		<link>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/04/19/education-leaders-call-for-teacher-and-student-centered-approach-to-implementing-common-core/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;Renowned Author of Failure Is Not an Option® Opens Gathering with System for Scaling Student Success COLUMBUS, OH—The second Ed Week Leadership Forum on Scaling Student Success began today with Award-winning author, and Founder and President of the HOPE Foundation, Alan Blankstein, with two propositions: “School culture trumps everything else when it comes to sustainable success,” and “There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOPE FOUNDATION PRESIDENT ADDRESSES  POTTSTOWN EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT DAY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: This event also covered in Education Week Teacher Blog. POTTSTOWN, PA (Friday, 23 March 2012) &#8212; More than 600 school principals, administrators, teachers and community leaders heard national education leader, expert and author Alan Blankstein, founder and president of the HOPE Foundation address the Pottstown School District on how to help students perform better in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Begins In The Classroom, Blankstein Tells Education Week Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/04/06/leadership-begins-in-the-classroom-blankstein-tells-education-week-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/04/06/leadership-begins-in-the-classroom-blankstein-tells-education-week-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JERSEY CITY, NJ– Drawing on lessons from his award-winning best-selling books, HOPE Foundation President Alan Blankstein told an audience comprising 200 area School Superintendents and district leaders, and the chief education officials from New Jersey, Delaware, Florida and Indiana that “one of the keys to helping school reforms succeed is having a program that recruits and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOP US EDUCATOR-AUTHOR ALAN BLANKSTEIN URGES SCHOOLS TO HAVE A “CULTURE OF COLLABORATION” BEFORE THE ANNUAL ASCD CONFERENCE IN PHILADELPHIA</title>
		<link>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/04/06/top-us-educator-author-alan-blankstein-urges-schools-to-have-a-%e2%80%9cculture-of-collaboration%e2%80%9d-before-the-annual-ascd-conference-in-philadelphia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA—Top US Educator and award-winning author Alan Blankstein challenged a packed room of over 250 educators at the ASCD Annual Conference to “create a culture of collaboration in the district, where teachers know and assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and seek help where they are weak and offer it where they are strong, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ithaca Schools Go from Controversial to Collaborative</title>
		<link>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/04/06/ithaca-schools-go-from-controversial-to-collaborative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marian Kisch When Luvelle Brown came to Ithaca City School District in January 2011 things were in disarray. There was a lack of trust, poor academic achievement, little consistency and a huge achievement gap. Negativity was rampant. “I was asked to be a change agent by the board,” Brown says. “And that’s what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways School Systems can Cultivate Out-of-the-Box Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.hopefoundation.org/blog/2012/04/06/ways-school-systems-can-cultivate-out-of-the-box-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Sparks Excerpts from Chapter 2 of The Soul of Educational Leadership Series, Volume #2 Out-of-the-Box Leadership Editors Alan M. Blankstein, Robert W. Cole and Paul D Houston &#160; The development of district and school leaders – both administrators and teacher leaders – is one of a school system’s most important responsibilities. Such efforts [...]]]></description>
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