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Building on a foundation that identifies courageous school leadership and the professional learning community as the center of effective school reform this powerful new book by Alan M Blankstein offers six guiding principles for creating and sustaining high-performing schools: common mission vision values and goals; systems for prevention and intervention; collaborative teaming for teaching and learning; data driven decision making and continuous improvement; active engagement from family and community; building sustainable leadership capacity; Covering theory into practice applications that include case studies and vignettes and techniques for addressing difficult issues the book also provides valuable dual perspectives on the critical issues: how implementation looks when it s done right as well as when things go wrong. Failure is Not an Option is sure to be the state-of-the-art resource that school leaders reach for when in Michael Fullan s words they need practical applications to