Navigating Comprehensive School Change
This book an accessible resource for busy practitioners is a unique hybrid of two genres. As a tourist guide it shows you:- how to prepare for the journey- what to pay attention to upon arrival- how to deal with the unexpected. As a consumer report it helps you:- identify some of the best tools and sources about change- access useful information about the change process- find information about the strengths and challenges of various strategies. Thorough and comprehensive it offers essential information about how to:- form leadership teams- identify high stakes problems- build commitment- create a school-wide vision and establish school-wide goals - handle setbacks- maintain the vision and sustain change. evaluate and assess comprehensive school change. Also included is a section called Ports of Call which provides sources of information to help you implement comprehensive school reform at your site. From Michael Fullan's Foreword . Chenoweth and Everhart take the big concepts of change and work them through operationally at the level of day-to-day practice. We learn how to form leadership teams the importance of focusing on capacity-building and reculturing how to build commitment while dealing with dissatisfaction problem-solving during implementation how to keep going and how to go beyond standardized testing in developing a range of alternative assessment strategies. | Navigating Comprehensive School Change