Leading Change in Your School : How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results

by Reeves, Douglas B.

• ISBN13: 9781416608080
• ISBN10: 1416608087
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-30
• Publisher: ASCD

Summary

...but learning from the examples of those who have succeeded can make it less daunting. In Leading Change in Your School, distinguished author and researcher Douglas B. Reeves offers lessons learned through his work with educators in thousands of schools around the world and presents real-life examples of leaders who have met the challenge of change head-on-with impressive results for their schools and districts. Readers will also find practical resources for engaging their colleagues in change initiatives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Creating Conditions for Change	p. 7
Pull the Weeds Before You Plant the Flowers	p. 13
The Personal Change Readiness Assessment	p. 18
The Organizational Change Readiness Assessment	p. 26
Cultural Change	p. 36
Confronting the Myths of Change Leadership	p. 41
Planning Change	p. 57
Leadership Leverage: Focusing on Changes with the Greatest Results	p. 61
The Right Team: Selecting Teachers and Administrators	p. 67
Building Capacity with Coaching	p. 72
Making Strategic Planning Work	p. 78
Implementing Change	p. 85
Closing the Implementation Gap	p. 89
The Flywheel: Getting Short-Term Wins to Sustain Long-Term Change	p. 94
Building Stakeholder Support: Academics and the Arts	p. 110
Defining Change: Lessons from Literacy	p. 116
Sustaining Change	p. 123
Sustaining Excellence	p. 127
Lessons Across the Globe	p. 133
Teacher Leadership	p. 137
Epilogue: The Risks and Rewards of Change	p. 141
Support Documents for Creating Conditions for Systemic Change	p. 147
Freeport School District Plan on a Page, 2007-2008	p. 162
References	p. 164
Index	p. 171
About the Author	p. 179
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