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Stand for the Best Thomas M. Bloch

Stand for the Best By Thomas M. Bloch

Stand for the Best by Thomas M. Bloch

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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.

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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

Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the companys 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 Blochs struggles to make a difference for his marginalized students and how he eventually co-founded a successful charter school, University Academy.

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"The lessons from Mr. Bloch's journeyon the importance of courage, risk-taking, passion and service in our livesare valuable to us all as citizens, leaders, social-change agents and human beings." (The Washington Times, October 2008)

About Thomas M. Bloch

THOMAS M. BLOCH, former CEO of H&R Block and currently a middle school math teacher and president of the board at University Academy, has been involved in a variety ofeducation initiatives since he changed careers. He and his wife, Mary, founded the Youth Service Alliance of Greater Kansas City to encourage and recognize outstanding community service through school-based programs. He is also a founding board member of the Kansas City Foundation for Higher Education, a trustee of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, President of the Endowment Fund for the Henry W. Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and chairman of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. He returned to H&R Block in 2000as a member of the board of directors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1 Off the Block.

2 Back to School.

3 Into the Trenches.

4 On the Learning Curve.

5 A Question of Character.

6 A New Kind of Urban School.

7 Great Expectations.

8 Making the Grade.

9 Moving the School.

10 Real Heroes.

11 A Duty to Dream.

12 Th e Next Urban Teacher.

13 A Calling.

14 Midterm Exam.

Epilogue.

Appendix.

Notes.

Selected Web Sites.

Index.

Additional information

NPB9780470188965
9780470188965
0470188960
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
Thomas M. Bloch
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Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2008-08-08
240
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