Alan Blankstein
Founder of the HOPE Foundation and Original Founder of Solution Tree
Alan Blankstein
Founder of the HOPE Foundation and Original Founder of Solution Tree
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About Alan Blankstein
Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served for 25 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 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the ...