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 / Thomas M. Bloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloch, Thomas M.

Series:

Jossey-Bass education series.

The Jossey-Bass education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bloch, Thomas M.

Education, Urban--United States.

Education, Urban.

Mathematics teachers--Missouri--Kansas City.

Mathematics teachers.

Charter schools--Missouri--Kansas City.

Charter schools.

Teaching--Social aspects--United States.

Teaching.

Career changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

The next urban teacher

A calling

Midterm exam.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-210) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612551185

9780470639597

0470639598

9781282551183

1282551183

9780470639603

0470639601

OCLC:

609856693