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The inspiring story of a CEO who gave up his career and followed his heart
Twelve years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the world's largest tax-preparation firm, which serves nearly 20 million customers. The son of the company's founder, he was making a million dollars a year and had a happy home life, but something was missing. After much soul-searching, Tom Bloch resigned as CEO in 1995 to become a math teacher in an impoverished inner-city school in Kansas City. In this book, he tells what it was like struggling to make a difference to his marginalized students and eventually starting an innovative and successful charter school.
Tom Bloch writes of the kids he helped rescue, and the kids he failed to rescue. He offers his hard-won insights into how to teach urban students and shares the lessons he himself learned from these kids, whose lives were so starkly different from his own. Bloch also explains how he and his colleagues struggled to make the charter school work and the strategies they used to turn the school around. His school has achieved almost unheard-of success; all of its graduates have gone on to college.
