Leading Change in Your School

<p>Guiding schools through significant change is one of the toughest challenges educational leaders face but learning from the examples of those who have succeeded can make it less daunting. In <em>Leading Change in Your School</em> 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.</p><p>Expanding on a number of his columns in the journal <em>Educational Leadership</em> Reeves offers insights ad recommendations in four areas:</p><p><br />* Creating conditions for change including assessments to determine personal and organizational readiness for change;<br /><br />* Planning change including cautionary notes about strategic planning;<br /><br />* Implementing change including the importance of moving from rhetoric to day-to-day reality; and<br /><br />* Sustaining change including the need to reorient priorities and values so that individual convenience gives way to a shared sense of the greater good.</p><p>The change leaders--both teachers and administrators--whose stories Reeves tells come from varied districts but they share a passion for creating schools that work for all students. They are Reeves says "people like you sharing similar challenges but perhaps with different results."</p>