Charles Michael Murphy 
Built to Last [PDF ebook] 
The School Leader′s Guide for Sustaining Change While Managing Resistance

Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
The Reality
The Good News
What This Book Will Not Be
A Peek Inside
Chapter 1: Build It for the Long Haul
Nourish Change for a Long Life
Lead With a Deep Knowledge of Each Phase of Long-Term Change
Lead With a “People-Sensitive Mindset” of How the Change Efforts Will Play Out
A Snapshot of Our Two School Districts Attempting Change
Chapter 2: Giving Initiation the Attention It Deserves
Take the Time to Start the Right Way
Leadership Essential Actions During Initiation
The Leaders of Our Two School Districts Initiate the Work
Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Implementation Over Time
Lead for the Long Term and Expect to See a Range of Quality in the Change
Leadership Essential Actions During Implementation
The Leaders of Our Two Districts Implement their Work
Chapter 4: Ensuring Permanence
Don’t Think the Work Is Over!
Leadership Essential Actions During Institutionalization
Our Two School Districts and the Attempts to Institutionalize the Work
Chapter 5: Anticipating Some Pushback
Accept and Appreciate That Resistance Will Happen at Some Point in the Change
Realize the Complexities of Resistance and Why It Triggers Strong Emotions in Us
Our Two School Districts and the Attempts to Manage the Resistance
Chapter 6: Strategies for Understanding and Managing the Pushback
Embrace the Unpleasantness, but Embrace It Calmly and Strategically
Chapter 7: Productive Talk About the Change
Effective Conversations Are Your Most Powerful Tools for Learning and Change
The What
The What Combined With the How
Our Two School Districts and their Attempts to have Productive Talk About the Change
Chapter 8: Finding the Moments
References
Index

Dr. Michael Murphy is a national leadership coach, trainer, planning facilitator, and consultant.  Even though he is a native Texan, he is now delighted to live in the Boston, Massachusetts area so he can be close to some of his family.  He draws from 43 years of educational experience in urban, suburban, and rural school district settings as he trains and works with instructional coaches, teacher leaders, school leaders, and district leaders both internationally and across North America.  Much of Michael’s work supports school and district leaders in planning and implementing large-scale improvement initiatives, differentiated instructional practices, the design and implementation of instructional coaching systems, visioning, understanding change and its effect on people, evaluating school improvement progress, designing exceptional professional learning, and facilitating learning in how to engage people in productive, relationship-rich, results-based conversations. Since 2009, he has consulted with varieties of school leaders in 19 states and two Canadian provinces and has presented in numerous state, national, and international symposia and conferences. Michael’s personal public-school experiences include his work as teacher, elementary specialist, assistant principal, principal, director of planning and evaluation, special assistant to the superintendent, assistant superintendent, and acting superintendent, all in several Dallas-Ft. Worth area (TX) school districts.  He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree and a master’s degree in elementary education from Texas Tech University and a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of North Texas. He has published numerous articles for national and international journals and is a contributing author or lead author for six educational books in the last ten years. Michael lives with his wife and enjoys numerous interests when not coaching, training, or consulting.  These interests include the production of various forms of art media, golf, working out, travel, and being with his family.  Michael can be reached at [email protected].