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Award-winning author and educational leader Alan M. Blankstein served for twenty-five years as president of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former “high-risk” youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. He worked for Phi Delta Kappa, March of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed for twelve years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling book Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which received the Book of the Year award from Learning Forward. Alan is senior editor, lead contributor, and/or author of eighteen books, including Excellence Through Equity with Pedro Noguera. He also authored some twenty articles in leading education print including Education Week, Educational Leadership, The Principal, and Executive Educator. Alan has provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major educational organization in the United States, and throughout the United Kingdom, Africa, and the Middle East. Alan has served on the Harvard Principals’ Center advisory board, and the board of the Jewish Child Care Association, where he once was a youth in residence.

Marcus J. Newsome is the director of the Virginia Superintendents Leadership Academy. Previously he served for sixteen years as an award-winning school superintendent in Newport News, Chesterfield County, and Petersburg City (Virginia). In 2015, his work was recognized by the United States Office of Educational Technology during a White House ceremony as a leader in transforming schools from a print to a digital learning environment. He has served as a consultant to governors, members of Congress, and both national and international business leaders on solutions for closing achievement gaps, narrowing the digital divide, assessment design, professional development, and twenty-first-century teaching and learning. Newsome has earned doctorate degrees in educational leadership and religious education. He began his career as an art and mathematics teacher in the District of Columbia, and later served as a curriculum writer, principal, and district administrator. He has also served as an associate professor for several universities, including Harvard University and Virginia Commonwealth University. An ordained minister, and dedicated husband and father, he has dedicated his career to the service of children.