Registration for non-KLA members:  $125

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Learn more about Mr. Schargel at

www.schargel.com

Copies of his books will be available for purchase.

Franklin Schargel

“From At-Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do”

Based upon Franklin Schargel’s recent book, From At-Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do, this seminar will bring together the wisdom and experience from over 50 schools that have been categorized as “high performing, high minority, high poverty.” Mr. Schargel will show us how the leaders of those schools succeeded in raising academic achievement, motivating students, boosting parent and community involvement, and applying the Three R’s—Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships.

• How do school leaders build school cultures that diminish the likelihood of children dropping out of school?

• What are the determinants of school success?

Franklin Schargel, a native of Brooklyn, New York, now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and holds two Masters Degrees: Secondary Education from City University and School Administration and Supervision from Pace University.  His career spans thirty-three years of classroom teaching, school counseling and eight years of school supervision and administration.

Mr. Schargel served on the Guidelines Development Committee for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in Education and was an examiner for the Baldridge Award for two years.  He served as Chair of the American Society of Quality's Education Division from 2003-2005.  He has authored six well-received books:  "Transforming Education Through Total Quality Management: A Practitioner's Guide", Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem, Dropout Prevention Tools, Helping Students Graduate, Best Practices to Help At-Risk Learners and From At-Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do."  He has a regular online column at The Guidance Channel.

Franklin's success in dramatically enhancing the learning process in his school, expanding parental involvement, increasing post-secondary school attendance and significantly lowering the students' dropout rate has been documented in 25 books, 77 newpaper and magazine articles and 5 internationally released videos.  The 15 strategies developed by the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University in association with Mr. Schargel have been recognized by the National Education Goals Panel and the United States Department of Education as "the most effective strategies to help solve our school dropout problem."

Mr. Schargel will be presenting on October 29, 2008 at the Lexington Center Bluegrass Ballroom.