Title / Role
Senior Managing Associate
Subject(s) I Teach or Learning Interest Area
School Dropout Prevention
Personal Interests and Passions
Writing , Travel, Reading
Personal Website / ePortfolio / Personal Web Presence (PWP)
https://www.schargel.com
More About Me
Franklin is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, author, teacher and consultant on preventing students and teachers from dropping out of schools, school safety, family engagement, and violence (bullying and suicide deterrence), at-risk students and alternative-education, and building school leadership.
He is president of his company, School Success Network. He has worked in schools worldwide for over 30 years, Mr. Schargel has delivered workshops and keynote addresses in 49 states, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Estonia, Hungary Israel, Mexico, Spain, Poland, and Turkey. Franklin has delivered workshops at National/international conferences including: AASA, ASQ, ASCD, ATE as well as for school districts.
Franklin was on the team that developed the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award in Education for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He was the chair of the American Society for Quality’s Education Division (2003-2005). Auburn University has awarded him their “Hero Award” for the work that he has done in dropout prevention and alternative education. He received the “Program of the Year Award” from the International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention and the “Crystal Star Award” from the National Dropout Preventions Center at Clemson University.
He is a former classroom teacher, school counselor and school administrator who successfully spearheaded a turnaround of an all-minority Career and Technical high school in New York City reducing the dropout rate of his school from 21.9% to 2.1%, increased family involvement 1440% in nine months, sent 72.1% of our first-generation high school graduates to post-secondary school and raised $5 million dollars for the school. The story has been documented in 5 internationally released videos including a PBS special, 23 books and 100 articles including the New York Times, Fortune and Business Week. The Public Broadcasting System (PBS), United States Department of Education, the American Management Association, and National Public Radio (NPR), Fortune Magazine, BusinessWeek and the New York Times have recognized his work.
He is a best-selling author who has written a great deal about the problem of at-risk learners, bullying prevention, safe schools, and dropout prevention, Franklin has written thirteen best-selling books dealing with dropout prevention and at-risk learners. HIs latest book, Who Will Teach The Students? Recruiting, Retaining and Refreshing Highly Effective Educators, deals with the educational exodus and the shortages of teachers and school administrators affecting our nation and other industrialized nations.
