Aim High: Leading Expectations
More often than not, urban schools achieve lower academic achievement rates than the national average. Urban educators are interested in improving their schools to avoid further punitive sanctions and see their reputations improve. Dr. Yvette Jackson, co-author of Aim High, Achieve More: How to Transform Urban Schools through Fearless Leadership (2014), hones in on exactly what it means to motivate students to succeed. What makes students want to achieve is a combination of f