Stand for the Best : What I Learned after Leaving My Job as CEO of H&R Block to Become a Teacher and Founder of an Inner-City Charter School
by Thomas M. BlochFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2010-02-01
Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
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Summary
Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the company's founder, he was a happily married 41-year-old executive, but something was missing from his life. After a nineteen-year career at the company, Bloch resigned his position to become a math teacher in an impoverished inner-city section of Kansas City. Stand for the Best reveals Bloch's struggles to make a difference for his marginalized students and how he eventually co-founded a successful charter school, University Academy.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Off the Block | |
| Back to School | |
| Into the Trenches | |
| On the Learning Curve | |
| A Question of Character | |
| A New Kind of Urban School | |
| Great Expectations | |
| Making the Grade | |
| Moving the School | |
| Real Heroes | |
| A Duty to Dream | |
| Th e Next Urban Teacher | |
| A Calling | |
| Midterm Exam | |
| Epilogue | |
| Appendix | |
| Notes | |
| Selected Web Sites | |
| Index | |
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