Overview

Using real examples of elementary and secondary schools that have moved change from rhetoric to reality, a giant in the field of school leadership explains how teachers and administrators everywhere can make sure change efforts lead to better results. Whether your school needs to improve literacy, inspire great teaching, increase attendance, reduce dropout rates, reform grading, or reach any other accountability, let Douglas Reeves equip you with what you need to succeed:

• Effective planning models for change that include highly focused goals and action plans.
  
• Change Readiness Assessments for embarking on your journey.
  
• Ways of interviewing and selecting the best teachers and administrators for your leadership team.
  
• Strategies to ensure short-term wins sustain long-term change.

These lessons learned from the author’s work with thousands of schools around the world include:

• How to focus leadership leverage on factors that will achieve the greatest results.
  
• How common myths of change leadership mislead stakeholders and undermine values.
  
• How to close the implementation gap between intention and action.

(ASCD Premium, Select, and Institutional Plus Member book, April 2009) 6" X 9", 192 pages.

Also available as an E-Book!

Related Resources:

• Accountability for Learning: How Teachers and School Leaders Can Take Charge
  
• The Art of School Leadership
  
• The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results
  
• Reframing Teacher Leadership to Improve Your School
  
• Creating the Capacity for Change: An ASCD Action Tool