Fantastic Voyage: A Story of School Turnaround and Achievement By Overcoming Poverty and Addressing Race - Paperback

by Lee Roland (Author)

How can we help our inner city children when schools continue to fail them? Who offers practical helps that have been tested and proven effective? Fantastic Voyage offers a helpful and hopeful tool for educators at every level. It also serves as a guide for communities to know how to better love and serve their neighbors and advocate for sustained improvement in their local school systems. Lee Roland believes every child deserves the best. He shares his experience at Tulakes Elementary to inspire educators to passionately work to ensure that EVERY child succeeds-regardless of color or class-and to encourage communities to fight for a quality public education for ALL children.

Author Biography

Lee Roland has served in public education for more than thirty years, twenty-five of them as an administrator. Particularly gratifying to him are the twelve years he served as the principal of Tulakes Elementary, a high-poverty, high-diversity, and once-failing school that was completely turned around under his leadership. He now shares his experience with schools, churches, and businesses as a consultant and motivational speaker. He also serves as a pastor at The Parish Church in Oklahoma City; a board member for a number of organizations that seek the welfare of children; and an adjunct professor at Southern Nazarene University, where he strives to help future school administrators prepare to truly "leave no child behind."