All Systems Go: The Change Imperative for Whole System Reform

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Corwin Press, Feb 3, 2010 - Education - 113 pages
Changing whole education systems for the better, as measured by student achievement, requires coordinated leadership at the school, community, district, and government levels.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 The Idea and Importance of WholeSystem Reform
3
Chapter 2 Deceptive Inadequacies
19
PART II Getting There
33
Chapter 3 Collective Capacity at the School and District Level
35
Chapter 4 The State We Are In
61
Chapter 5 Individual Capacity Building
81
PART III A New Era
93
Chapter 6 Politicians and Professionals Unite
95
References
103
Index
107
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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. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and from Nipissing University. Fullan currently works as adviser and consultant on several major education reform initiatives around the world. He bases his work on research and practice on both the public and private sectors, finding an increasing convergence in this literature. He has written several bestsellers on leadership and change that have been translated into several languages, and four of his books have won book of the year awards.

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