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This book is a comprehensive guide to implementing comprehensive school change. It covers topics such as forming leadership teams, building commitment, problem solving, and assessing comprehensive school change. The authors also provide sources of information to help implement comprehensive school reform at your site.
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. "
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