The author of Six Secrets of Change describes how and why
the principal’s role must change to maximize student
achievement
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Principals are often called the second most crucial in-school
influencers (after teachers) of student learning. But what should
the principal do in order to maximize student achievement? One of
the best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan explains why
the answer lies neither in micro-managing instruction nor in
autonomous entrepreneurialism. He shows systematically how the
principal’s role should change, demonstrating how it can be done in
short order, at scale.
* Reveals the three key roles that administrators must play in
today’s schools
* Explains how to choose the right versus wrong drivers of school
success
* Filled with ‘action items’ to help implement Fullan’s program
effectively
* Includes strategies that have been successfully field-tested in
schools across the United States and Canada
Table of Content
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
About the Author xv
CHAPTER ONE: Outmoded 1
Gasp! 6
Leading Learning 8
Maximizing Impact 9
This Watershed Moment 10
The Chapters That Follow 13
Still Worth a Struggle 14
CHAPTER TWO: Vices and Virtues 17
Panic Time? 21
Four Wrong Choices for Driving Policy 22
Too Broad, Too Narrow: The Transformative Versus Instructional Leader 38
Principal Autonomy and Micromanaging:
Other Roadside Attractions 42
Time to Retune 46
CHAPTER THREE: The First Key–Leading Learning 51
What Key Research Tells Us 56
Professional Capital–a Framework for Leading Learning 67
Foster and Integrate 86
The More Powerful Way 88
CHAPTER FOUR: The Second Key–Being a District and System Player 93
Looking Out to Improve Within 98
Intradistrict Development 100
Beyond the District 107
Not You Alone 115
CHAPTER FIVE: The Third Key–Becoming a Change Agent 119
Change Agency 124
Distorted Mirrors 135
CHAPTER SIX: The Future Is Now 141
The Unplanned Digital Revolution 145
Planned Change: Common Core State Standards 154
Time to Change Careers? Or to Change Gears? 157
A Final Word 160
References 161
Index 169
About the author
Michael Fullan, Order of Canada, is a professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He consults with leaders of education systems worldwide and is the award-winning author of more than thirty books, including Leading in a Culture of Change, The Six Secrets of Change, and Change Leader. To learn more, visit www.michaelfullan.ca.
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