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. Bloch

• ISBN13: 9780470639597
• ISBN10: 0470639598
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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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