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Change Leadership

A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools
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Change Leadership equips educational leaders with essential concepts and tools for implementing comprehensive system-wide changes in schools. Drawing from the Harvard Change Leadership Group's celebrated "learning gyms," this resource integrates leading insights on both organisational and individual transformation. It offers a practical, personal training approach designed specifically for those leading change in education.
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The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transformation of schools in the face of increasing demands for accountability.

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Change Leadership offers educational leaders the concepts and tools they need to bring about much-needed system-wide change in schools. Modeled after the Harvard Change Leadership Group's nationally acclaimed "learning gyms," this vital resource pulls together the best of the information available on organisational and individual transformation and provides a personal training regime for change leaders.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780787977559

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 December 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Tom Vander Ark

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Tony Wagner is co-director of the Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Β  He is also Education Chair of the Harvard Seminar on Redesigning American High Schools.Β  He consults widelyΒ with schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally and is Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Β  Wagner is the author of Making the Grade and How Schools Change. Robert Kegan is co-director of the Change Leadership Group (CLG), and Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Β  His work focuses on the importance of continued psychological development in adulthood.Β  Kegan is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including four honorary doctorates and the Massachusetts Psychological Association's Techer of the Year award.Β  He is author of The Evolving Self and (with Lisa Laskow Lahey) How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work. Lisa Laskow Lahey is associate director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Β  For over 20 years she has been a consultant to schools and businesses helping to turn workplace problems and issues into opportunities for transformational learning.Β  A former principal and high school teacher, Lahey is co-founder and senior consultant at Minds at Work, a consulting firm specializing in school and workplace learning in the U.S. and Europe.Β  She is co-author (with Robert Kegan) of How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work.

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