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Success Is The Only Option

Create and adequately fund systems of quality schools requiring professional responsibility for results through providing equitable support for all students and teachers that provide quality choices for parents and their children.

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Helping Reinvent / Redesign Public Schools and Systems of Quality Schools

H.E.L.P. Human Engagement for Learning & Productivity in Pittsburgh, PA is an education consulting firm that aims to help school administrators and boards of directors create systems of quality schools. Our approach focuses on the redesign of education policies, procedures and structures that  build and maintain positive and growth producing relationships between students, faculty, administrators as well as parents and essential community partners.


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Suggested Readings


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  • Action Research and Findings Contained in the Book “No Bad Schools” 2005 (Renko and Sofo) and an Essay Published in the Summer 2008 Harvard Educational Review Entitled “Beyond NCLB and AYP: One Superintendent’s Experience of School District Reform.” (Sofo)
  • “How Can Teachers Develop Students’ Motivation and Success?” - Carol S. Dweck Interview, August 2004 (Article by Gary Hopkins Education World Editor-in-Chief Copyright, 2005 Education World)
  • “Seventeen Reasons Why Football Is Better Than High School” (Article by Herb Childress, Phi Delta Kappa International, April 1998)
  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Christopher Emdin)    2016

  • Leading for Equality: The Pursuit of Excellence in Montgomery County Public Schools  2009  (Stacey M. Childress, Denis P. Doyle, David A. Thomas)

  • What Works: Applying Critical Race Praxis to the Design of Educational and Mentoring Interventions for African American Males, Journal of African American Males in Education, Fall 2018-Vol. 9 Issue 2, Michael W. Quigley & Anthony B. Mitchell

  • “Leading High-Performance School Systems: Lessons from the World’s Best”, Marc Tucker, 2019

  • “Building Ranks: K-12 A Comprehensive Framework for Effective School Leaders”, National Association of Secondary Principals,2018

  • "Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms", Joe Feldman, 2019, Corwin, ISBN 978 1 5053 9157 1

  • "Make the Impossible Possible:One Man"s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary", Bill Strickland with Vance Rause, Random House, Inc. New York, 2007.

  • “Socializing Intelligence” (Article by Lauren B. Resnick and Sharon Nelson-Le Gall, University of Pittsburgh, 1997)
  • “Diane Ravitch: No Child Left Behind, Reform Killing Public Education” (Article by Kenneth Terrell)
  • “Bridging the Gap Between Standards and Achievement” (Article by Richard F. Elmore)

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  • “Improving Student Learning Requires District Learning” (Article by Robert Rothman)
  • "The Urban School System of the Future" (Andy Smarick)
  • Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools into Learning  Organizations  2009  (Phillip C. Schlechty)
  • The NISL Wheel: A Guide for School Leaders 2016   National Institute For School Leadership              

  • Building A New Structure For School Leadership 2000   The Albert Shanker Institute      (Richard F. Elmore)
  • “Preparing Students for the Uncertain Future: Why America’s Educators Are Ready to Innovate-but Their Education Systems Are Not”, essay in the Center for the Reinvention of Public Education’s 25th anniversary collection, Thinking Forward: New Ideas for a New Era of Public Education
  • "No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State", National Conference of State Legislators, 2016
  • "What Schools Could Be", Ted Dintersmith, Princeton University Press, 2018
  • "We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom", Bettina L. Love, Beacon Press, Boston MA, 2019
  • External link opens in new tab or windowSuccess Is The Only Option PP systems of innovative quality public schools

  • External link opens in new tab or windowCity High Innovative School Design

  • External link opens in new tab or windowHavard Educational Review essay July 2008

  • External link opens in new tab or window"Transformational vs. Instructional Leadership. Which is Better?", Education Week, October 28, 2021, Sean Slade & Alyssa Gallagher.

  • External link opens in new tab or window'Looping' With Students: When It works and When It Doesn't, Ed Week, by Hayley Hardison, June 1, 2022

  • External link opens in new tab or windowAdvice From Teachers in 7 Words or Less, Ed Week, by Larry Ferlazzo, June 7, 2022

  • External link opens in new tab or windowWhat Do Top U.S. Companies Think Schools Could Do Better? We Ask ,Ed Week, by Elizabeth Heubeck, May 3, 2022

  • External link opens in new tab or windowGraduation Must Depend on Learning, Not Time, Ed Week, by M. Beasley, A. Carvalho, W. Hite, J. Jara, M. Goldson, & J. Almendarez, October 12, 2021

  • External link opens in new tab or window"A Transformational Vision for Education in the US", Education Reimagined, 2015.
  • External link opens in new tab or window"Looping: Here's What Happens When Students Have the Same Teacher More Than Once", Madeline Will, Education Week, June 21, 2022.

H.E.L.P. Human Engagement for Learning & Productivity


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Pittsburgh, PA

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Service Areas: We serve the Greater Pittsburgh Area.

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