Passing judgment on students’ potential based on outward appearances often sets boys up for failure. Keynoter Robert Jackson is all too familiar with adversity, but rejected his teacher’s prediction that he’d end up in jail or dead by age 21.
Author of the No More Excuses curriculum and his new ASCD release, Becoming the Education They Need: Strategies, Mindsets & Beliefs for Supporting Male Black and Latino Students, Robert Jackson has been a crowd favorite at previous conferences. Robert will speak on opening day of the At-Risk & Struggling Students Conference in Las Vegas. LEARN MORE.