Skip to content

Challenge of Change Start School Improvement Now!

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 1412953766

ISBN-13: 9781412953764

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Michael Fullan

List price: $41.95
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

With practical insights, powerful observations, and critical analysis, this collection makes the widely discussed topic of school change accessible to all readers. Editor Michael Fullan, author of The New Meaning of Educational Change, brings together articles and essays that explore the theories, leadership, and implementation strategies behind the never-ending journey of educational reform. Contributors such as Richard Elmore, Andy Hargreaves, Pedro A. Noguera, Carmel Crévola, Elizabeth City, Jim Knight, and Ken Leithwood address the problems that have led to the school change movement and offer solutions and proposals for reform. The articles provide not only practical implementation…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $41.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Corwin Press
Publication date: 4/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.100

Consulting Description Consulting Description: Leadership nbsp; An innovative thinker who is sought-after by institutions, publishers, and international think-tanks, Michael Fullan is special advisor on education to Dalton McGuinty, the premier of Ontario. He formerly served as dean and professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.nbsp;He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and from Nipissing University in Canada.nbsp;Fullan served as dean of the faculty of education at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 2003, leading two major organizational transformations, including a merger of two large schools of…    

Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Change Forces
Introduction
8 Forces for Leaders of Change
The Road to School Improvement
The Fourth Way of Change
Special Topic/Transforming High Schools
Instructional Focus at the School Level
The Principal and Change
Breakthrough Components
New Insights Into Professional Learning Communities at Work
Coaches as Leaders of Change
Developing and Sustaining School Principals
District Level Change
Sustaining Leadership in Complex Times
The PELP Coherence Framework
Large-Scale Reform
Learning About System Renewal
Economic Success, Civil Rights, and the Seven Challenges for Education Reform in the U.S.
Index