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About This Book
Pursue long-term sustainability without jeopardizing short-term results!
As agencies have pushed for greater performance and public accountability over the past two decades, we have seen some incremental improvements. But all too often, experience reveals that these improvements are temporary. Leadership & Sustainability provides a comprehensive examination of what leaders at all levels of the educational system can do to pave the way for large-scale, sustainable reform.
Building on ideas established in his best-selling publication The Moral Imperative of School Leadership, author Michael Fullan confronts a question that has never been addressed before: How do you develop and sustain a greater number of system thinkers in action, or new theoreticians? These proactive system leaders are at the heart of the issue of sustainability, for they are the ones to bring about deeper reform while simultaneously helping to produce other theoreticians working on the same issues.
Linking abstract concepts to concrete examples, this groundbreaking work defines an agenda for the system thinker in action, including eight elements of sustainability that can be applied to any public service or corporate institution:
* Public service with a moral purpose
* Commitment to changing the context at all levels
* Lateral capacity building through networks
* Intelligent accountability and vertical relationships
* Deep learning
* Dual commitment to short-term and long-term results
* Cyclical energizing
* The long lever of leadership
Leadership & Sustainability is an engaging and powerful book from one of the world's leading authorities on school change. It provides clear ideas and strategies for achieving deep, sustainable reform in education.
Topics : Leadership
Table Of Content
Preface
About the Author
1. The Starting Point
Apparent Success
Danger Points
2. The Intriguing Nature of Sustainability
Looking for Solutions
Eight Elements of Sustainability
1. Public Service With a Moral Purpose
2. Commitment to Changing Context at All Levels
3. Lateral Capacity Building Through Networks
4. Intelligent Accountability and Vertica Relationships
5. Deep Learning
6. Dual Commitment to Short-Term and Long-Term Results
7. Cyclical Energizing
8. The Long Lever of Leadership
3. Leadership to the Fore
Where We Are
What Individuals Can Do
What Systems Can Do
4. The New Work of Leaders
5. Leadership at the School Level
Assessment for Learning
Changing School Cultures
Parents and the Community
Stepping Out
6. Leadership at the District Level
Lessons Learned
1. Leading With a Compelling, Driving Conceptualization
2. Collective Moral Purpose
3. The Right Bus
4. Capacity Building
5. Lateral Capacity Building
6. Ongoing Learning
7. Productive Conflict
8. A Demanding Culture
9. External Partners
10. Growing Financial Investments
A Case Example: Knowsley Local Education Authority, England
Sustainability Revisited
7. Leadership at the System Level
Networking and Intelligent Accountability
Guidelines for System Leaders
1. The Reality Test
2. Moral Purpose
3. Get the Basics Right
4. Communicate the Big Picture
5. Opportunities for Locals to Influence the Big Picture
6. Intelligent Accountability
7. Incentivize Collaboration and Lateral Capacity Building
8. The Long Lever of Leadership
9. Design Every Policy, Whatever the Purpose, to Build Capacity, Too
10. Grow the Financial Investment in Education
Epilogue
References
Index
About the Authors
Michael Fullan:
Michael Fullan is professor emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Recognized as a worldwide authority on educational reform, Fullan is engaged in training, consulting, and evaluating change projects around the world, and his books have been published in many languages.
Fullan is currently Special Advisor to the Premier and Minister of Education in Ontario. His book Leading in a Culture of Change was awarded the 2002 Book of the Year Award by Learning Forward (formerly the National Staff Development Council), and Breakthrough (with Peter Hill and Carmel Crévola) won the 2006 Book of the Year Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. His latest books are The Six Secrets of Change (Jossey-Bass), What’s Worth Fighting For in the Principalship (Teachers College Press), and (with Geoff Scott) Turnaround Leadership in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass).
Among his Corwin titles are Realization: The Change Imperative for Deepening District-Wide Reform (with Lyn Sharratt), Breakthrough (with Peter Hill and Carmel Crévola), Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action, the second edition of The Challenge of Change: Start School Improvement Now! and the new All Systems Go.
A list of his widely acclaimed books, articles, and other resources can be found at www.michaelfullan.ca.
ISBN: 9786038147306
Author: Michael Fullan
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2017
Size: 17*24cm
