About
Franklin P. Schargel
Educator, Author, Motivational Speaker, Trainer, Consultant
Franklin Schargel, a native of Brooklyn, New York now residing in Albuquerque, NM, is a graduate of the University of the City of New York. Franklin holds two Masters Degrees: one in Secondary Education from City University and a degree from Pace University in School Administration and Supervision. His career spans thirty-three years of classroom teaching, school counseling and eight years of school supervision and administration. In addition, Franklin taught a course in Dowling College’s MBA Program.
Franklin served on the Guidelines Development Committee for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in Education and was an examiner for the Baldrige Award for two years. In addition, he served as a judge for the Secretary of the Air Force Quality Award and as a judge for the USA Today/RIT Quality Cup. He served as Chair of the American Society of Quality’s Education Division from 2003-2005. He was awarded the Crystal Star Award in 2005 presented by the National Dropout Prevention Center for “Excellence in Dropout Recovery, Intervention and Prevention”.
As president of his training firm, The Schargel Consulting Group, Franklin has presented countless workshops for educational, community and business groups throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and Latin America. His workshops are designed to show people how to transform their educational systems into World Class Educational Organizations. The workshops are for administrators, teachers, students, parents, business leaders, policy makers and anyone else interested in building globally competitive schools. All of his workshops are tailored to the individual client’s needs and their desired outcomes.
Franklin is the author of eight well-received books: Transforming Education Through Total Quality Management: A Practitioner’s Guide, Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem, Dropout Prevention Tools, Helping Students Graduate, Best Practices to Help At-Risk Learners and From At-Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do, Creating School Cultures That Embrace Learning: What Successful Leaders Do as well as many articles published in the leading educational journals and business magazines. Mr Schargel’s latest book is 162 Keys to School Academic Achievement.
Mr. Schargel has a regular column in SEEN Magazine.
Franklin’s success in dramatically enhancing the learning process in his school, expanding parental involvement, increasing post-secondary school attendance and significantly lowering the students’ dropout rate, has been documented in 25 books, 77 newspaper and magazine articles and five internationally released videos. The 15 strategies developed by the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University in association with Mr. Schargel have been recognized by the National Education Goals Panel and the United States Department of Education as “the most effective strategies to help solve our school dropout problem.”
His practical, humorous, impassioned and hands-on workshops have been called “outstanding.” The United States Department of Education, Fortune Magazine, Business Week, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting System and the New York Times have recognized his work.
