"At the very time the need for effective leadership is reaching critical proportions, Michael Fullan's "Leading in a Culture of Change" provides powerful insights for moving forward. We look forward to sharing it with our grantees." - Tom Vander Ark, executive director, Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "Fullan articulates clearly the ...
The role of the school principal has never been an easy one, and it is continually becoming more diverse and complex as the needs and demands of today's society change. This book is designed to help principals (and teacher leaders) fight for fundamentally positive changes that will benefit themselves and their students. Because principals are very ...
"The Six Secrets of Change" explores essential lessons for business and public sector leaders for surviving and thriving in today's complex environment. He draws on his acclaimed work in bringing about large-scale and substantial change in education reform in both public school systems and universities, as well as engaging in major change ...
On Common Ground brings the ideas and recommendations of many of North America's educational leaders into one resource for educators working to help their students achieve at ever-higher levels. Each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and specific, practical strategies for developing professional learning communities.
Over the last 30 years there have been numerous attempts at planned educational change. It is widely accepted that the benefits have not equalled the cost, and all too often the situation has seemed to worsen. In this book, Michael Fullan distils from these experiences the most powerful lessons about how to cope with, and influence, educational ...
Knowledge of the processes of educational change is said to be the missing ingredient in attempts to bring about educational innovation and reform. Whether these efforts involve grass roots innovation or large-scale societal reform, failure to understand and act on existing knowledge of the change process has accounted for the widespread lack of ...
In addition to its outstanding analysis of "total teachers" and school culture, this book provides action guidelines for teachers and for principals that are filled with insight that will help school educators take responsibility for reform.
'This is a timely and thought-provoking book. Fullan, Hill, and Crevola address the complexity of teaching and leading, and offer a compelling way forward that focuses on learning for all students through personalization, precision teaching, and professional learning for educators. By connecting assessment with learning, leading with teaching and ...
"'The Moral Imperative of School Leadership" is an important read for school leader and system administrators, not so much because it provides a prescription of the future of public education, but more because it elevates the moral imperative of public schooling and enshrine s the view that effective school leadership must be drive from a deep ...
'The book is an excellent read as it provides both ideas and suggestions to empower leaders in the education system. Increasingly, more and more academics write for each other and not for the practitioners who lead our schools, so this is a refreshing book. In an era of some anti-leadership books it is refreshing to read ideas that build bridges ...
This expanded and thoroughly updated edition of the popular anthology assembles the best book excerpts, articles, and reports that define and drive the field of educational leadership today. Filled with critical insights from respected authors, education researchers, and expert practitioners, this comprehensive volume features twenty-six chapters ...
Filled with critical insights from best--selling authors and expert practitioners, this unique anthology presents important articles, seminal reports, and book excerpts defining the field of educational leadership today. This comprehensive reader features twenty--four chapters in five primary areas of educational research and concern:* Leadership, ...
More versatile than mere number crunching and statistics, data can be an effective tool-even a powerful catalyst-for change within a school. By replacing cynicism with conviction, learning to harness data's power, and becoming good users of data to positively impact student achievement, school leaders can develop three crucial capacities: an ...
Leading in a Culture of Change: Personal Action Guide and Workbook is an essential companion to Michael Fullan's bestselling book, Leading in a Culture of Change. This practical guide is designed to help leaders in all sectors (corporate, education, public, and nonprofit) manage and drive productive change within their organizations. The workbook ...
The sequel to Fullen's first book on this subject "Change Forces". Now, in "Change Forces - The Sequel", he extends and expands the use of chaos theory as a lens through which to view and comprehend change, and the forces which govern it. As Fullan worked on his ideas, relating them to school systems, higher education, and research, the field of ...
Change Forces With a Vengeance is the third in Fullan's chaos or complexity theory trilogy. The first two books focused on understanding the real complexity of educational reform in action. This book pushes even deeper by providing new insights and lessons of change concerning moral purpose, and what is called tri-level reform - the school and ...
Teacher development has come under close scrutiny through which it has become clear that previous assumptions about linking staff development and effective changes confined to specific innovations were too limited. This collection traces the link between teacher development and education change. Each of the chapters helps the understanding of ...
Formerly a SkyLight publicationWith practical insights, powerful observations, and critical analysis, this collection makes the widely discussed topic of school change accessible to all readers.
The chapters in this volume are divided into three broad categories: (1) those dealing with macro educational change at the societal level (2) those relating to large scale initiatives based on particular reform strategies (3) those pertaining to fundamental transformations of professional development strategies, indeed to fundamental reform in ...
This book is about how to make schools more interesting and fulfilling places to be. It tackles how to bring about marked improvements in the daily lives and experiences of more teachers, heads and pupils, with the premise being that teachers and heads themselves should ultimately make this happen.
Headteachers are in the midst of ever increasing demands, overload and imposition on schools by political forces at all levels of society. Michael Fullan examines, and proposes to heads, what's worth fighting for under these conditions.
'This timely book is exactly what modern schools need, blending Fullan's theoretical genius about change with practical strategies that can work in any school. Readers will discover that it is practical, easy to use, and empowering for educators, with lots of room for personal choices at the school level' - Lyn Sharratt, Superintendent of ...
Learn from schools that have made meaningful, positive, and lasting changes! The author presents an in-depth look at eight schools across the nation, winners of the National School Change Awards, that transformed themselves from low-performing to exemplary national status. With specific examples, qualitative research, and portraiture, this ...
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