The GE Story

The Great Expectations Story: A Transformation Plan for America’s Schools elaborates on the components that are the bedrock of the premier teaching methodology called Great Expectations. Great Expectations, often referred to as GE, is a beautiful weave of the absolutely best practices in teaching, and its effectiveness is substantiated by the current, ongoing research in education. Some of its most acclaimed value lies in its emphasis on high standards of character.
Besides offering a succinct overview of the elements of Great Expectations and providing personal accounts from practitioners, this book allows the reader an entertaining way to visit a Great Expectations school system through the eyes of the Hanson family who are newcomers to a GE town. The family, a first-year teacher, and all the other people whom the reader meets in this story are fictional, but the experiences of Great Expectations – related as if they were part of the characters’ lives – are all based on true happenings in actual GE classrooms and schools.
Great Expectations is a way of life which leads to rich academic excellence and a spirit- sustaining culture of respect, and The Great Expectations Story is an ideal way to gain insights into the life transforming experience of GE.