How Children Succeed - Interview with the author
Paul Tough gives an interview (about half hour) discussing the details of How Children Succeed from Toronto Public Television: http://www.thelavinagency.com/blog-education-speaker-paul-tough-on-not-treating-failure-as-a-disaster.html
The interview closely follows his book and expands a little on Tough's thoughts since he wrote the book. It is interesting that he now feels the most effective program included in the book is the OneGoal program, even though their data is incomplete (the students involved are only now college sophomores) and he spends more time in the book on some of the other programs.

The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning

Thanks to Marty Miller for passing along this link to The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew's Episcopal School.  The CTTL is run by former Blair faculty member Glenn Whitman, and the website includes a blog as well as links to other resources.

Another great source for professional development.

http://www.thecttl.org/aboutcttl/index.aspx

What Distinguishes a Super School?

The link to this article from Time showed up in a Teach for America school leadership newsletter I get.  The following line is most interesting:  What the study shows, Ellison and Swanson suggest, is that a school’s expectations and environment matter even for students who arrive with every advantage.  The article reminded me of the "Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition", where several teachers were informed of students who were "ready to bloom", even though the students were not floral in any appreciable way.  Turns out expectations matter- a lot.

Time's article: 

http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/06/what-distinguishes-a-superschool-from-the-rest/

And the Harvard study, via NPR:

http://m.npr.org/story/161159263